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Shaping Temporary Measures into Innovation: A New Look for Online Legal Instruction
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Genevieve Tung is the Associate Director for Educational Programs at the Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. In this role, she teaches and develops curricula for 1L, upper-level JD, LLM, and Masters in Law. She received a JD from Fordham Law and a MLIS from Drexel University. Before becoming a law librarian, Genevieve practiced with the intellectual property group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.
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Gabe Teninbaum is the Assistant Dean for Innovation, Strategic Initiatives and Distance Education, as well as a Professor of Legal Writing, at Suffolk University Law School. Among other responsibilities, he leads the #1 ranked legal tech program in the nation, as ranked on multiple occasions by National Jurist Magazine and preLaw Magazine. In addition to his work at Suffolk Law, Teninbaum has held appointments as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. He has also served as a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project since 2017. Teninbaum has been named to the FastCase 50, the ABA Journal Web 100, and elected a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. He is the founder of the award-winning software company for legal education, SpacedRepetition.com. He has been called “perhaps the most tech-savvy law professor in the nation” by the ABA Journal. Teninbaum currently chairs the AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education
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Sheila Scheuerman earned her B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA; her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis; and her LLM from Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia. Before joining academia, she was a litigator at Arnold & Porter, LLP, in Washington, D.C. She was as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow in Law at Temple University, where she taught Professional Responsibility, and Legal Research & Writing. She joined the Charleston School of Law in 2006, where she taught civil procedure, professional responsibility, and federal courts. She also served as the inaugural Director of Faculty Development from 2011 to 2014. Scheuerman joined Suffolk University’s College of Arts & Science in 2018. A full-time faculty member of the Political Science & Legal Studies Department, she teaches Litigation, Legal Research & Writing and a seminar on the Supreme Court. In May 2021, she was awarded Outstanding College of Arts & Sciences Faculty of the Year by the Student Government Association
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Shira Megerman serves as a Senior Legal Information Librarian at Boston University School of Law, Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries. Previous to working at BU Law, she spent five years working at the University of Florida–Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center as the Student Services Reference Librarian. Shira has experience in teaching first-year and advanced legal research. At Florida, she liaised with the family law faculty, and she currently serves as liaison to the IP faculty at BU Law. She is active in LLNE and AALL.
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Libraries as Functional and Responsive Spaces Both Online and In-Person
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Richard Buckingham is the Director of the Moakley Law Library and Information Resources, and Associate Professor of Legal Research at Suffolk University Law School. Professor Buckingham joined the Moakley Law Library as a legal reference librarian in 2002. Before becoming a librarian, he worked in housing and residence life at several institutions, including Boston University and Emerson College. While obtaining his degree from Simmons College he worked part-time at the Harvard Law School Library.
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Jan Fleckenstein is Director of the Law Library and Associate Teaching Professor of Law, positions to which she was appointed in 2017. She was previously Associate Director & Head of Library Information Systems. As a librarian at the Syracuse University College of Law Library since 1987, she has worked in circulation, interlibrary loan/document delivery, reference, technical services (acquisitions, cataloging and serials), academic computing, and library administration. Her research interests include library planning and design, and curating business information to support law school curricula. She earned her B.A. from Le Moyne College and her M.L.S., M.S./IRM, and J.D. degrees from Syracuse University.
Jan has been active in both library associations and library education. She is past president of the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York and past president of the Pi Lambda Sigma chapter of Beta Phi Mu at Syracuse University. In 2008, she received the Katie M. Deveau Spirit of ALLUNY Award for service to the law library community. She has taught Legal Information courses at SU’s iSchool as well as serving as a consultant on library facilities projects now teaches Advanced Legal Research at the College of Law. Over the years she has presented programs on integration of information technology into the infrastructure of the library, and on major and minor library renovation projects, at AALL, CALL/ACBD, ABA’s Bricks & Bytes, and ALLUNY. Prior to joining SU, she was the Librarian at O’Hara & Crough in Syracuse, NY. |
Anna Lawless-Collins is the Associate Director for Systems and Collection Services at the BU Law Library. Before that, she was the Collection Development Librarian, and retains many of her collection development duties in conjunction with managing the Collection Services department. She’s particularly excited about the new directions we can take our collections to better serve our patrons and build better collections for the future. She received her JD from Northeastern and her MLIS from Simmons, and is grateful for the opportunity to continue to learn in this career.
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Kara Mack is a legal industry expert in research products, the research process and research training. With over 20 years of experience in AM Law 100 law firms, Kara is responsible for Goodwin’s global team of research analysts, consults on research strategy, and is responsible for evaluating and implementing innovative technologies that improve the research process. Kara is an active member of the legal research community as a longtime member of the American Association of Law Libraries and as past Membership Chair and current Education Chair of the Association of Boston Law Librarians.
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