Life of a Law Student

Greetings, folks!

So, in the course of migration from Podango, several of our podcasts had become corrupted.  I have begun restoring the process from DVD backup, though it will take a while.  Criminal Law has been fixed as well as Property Law — the others will need to be manually edited since our automated process for assembling the episode together with the intro and outro is gone.

I appreciate your patience!

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It pays to be a programmer sometimes.

I just finished writing a script to migrate our database so the podcasts, which previously pointed to the Podango feed, now point to a valid source location.  You can now listen to our podcasts through the website or you can subscribe to the various classes at our feedpage — you can click the iTunes Subscribe button and it will add that feed to the list of your podcasts using iTunes as your podcatcher.  You can find our feed list here: http://www.lifeofalawstudent.com/podcast-feeds/

NOTE: Subscribing through the iTunes Store will still be problematic as we have to speak with iTunes support to make that change for us and those types of requests usually take some time to process.   So, we’d greatly appreciate it if you could pass along the word about the update.

Oh, and Happy New Year folks.

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Greetings, folks…

As of December 31st, 2008, our primary feed provider, Podango, decided to reorganize and switch from a free-based service to a fee-based service.  In true internet fashion, they gave everyone about a weeks notice to switch everything over and forward their RSS feeds.  Being in and out of the hospital after Christmas, needless to say I had zero time to accomplish this, so we’ll be having a period of maintenance ourselves while we switch all of our podcasts from podango feeds to another feed service or host the feed ourselves.

I want to stress that no content has been lost — we have all of our episodes, so we’re golden there…  please just bear with us as we go through this period of reorganization.

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It’s time for finals and, in the spirit of reviewing, Fitz found this great video on YouTube.  Enjoy!

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Fitz, over at The Law Pod, has updated his iPod Touch and iPhone resource with the Constitution and the Amendments along with the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure.  Interestingly, you can browse to the pages directly on your PC or Macintosh, but only with Safari (Apple’s browser) or Google’s “Chrome”, but only because it used Apple’s toolkit to develop it, so those two browsers support iPhone and iPod Touch formatted pages and features.

Thanks for the update, Fitz!

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Fitz, over at The Law Pod, has a great resource for your iPhone or your iPod Touch.

Law Pod’s web applications can be quickly and easily installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch by following the directions on the law pod home page. The Law Pod currently features the following web applications:

- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
- Federal Rules of Evidence

Upcoming Law Pod web applications include:
- Model Penal Code
- U.S. Constitution + Amendments
- Federal Rules of Bankruptcy
- And Many More!

The Law Pod is a perfect companion for lawyers and law students.

You can find more information at Apple’s Website or, again, at The Law Pod.  Thanks, Fitz!

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I just wanted to take a brief moment to recognize the 7th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11th, 2001.  The injured and those who were lost and their survivors are in my thoughts today.

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Steve Luther is a law student who’s trying to find the right summer job — the pressures of deciding whether to follow his conscious or his wallet ultimately throw his life into turmoil, so he does what any of us would do…  he turns it into a four minute work of fiction he made to try to win a contest.

A little humor to lighten up your day.  Thanks to Richard for passing this along!

You can vote for them here: http://errgh.com/HelpSteve/Vote/

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I’ve updated the site to the latest version of the software available by WordPress — if you come across any oddities or issues, please let me know! Additionally, I’ve gotten my introduction recorded and will be publishing that podcast very soon, so keep an eye out on the News and Views feed.

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Greetings, folks.

I’m looking to get things back on track, albeit in baby steps.   My name is Rob Wiltbank and I’ll be lending a hand to Neil for the foreseeable future with Life of a Law Student.  Between law school, some personal commitments and, of course, being a good husband, it’s going to be difficult for him to have as active of a role as he’s had in the past.

So, a little about myself…  By day, I’m a web and database application developer at Delaware Technical & Community College.  By night, I’m an Adjunct Faculty member for our Computer Science department.  You may be asking yourself, “How does that qualify you to take over LoaLS?”  And the short answer is, “It doesn’t.  Not really… well, kinda sorta.”  Perhaps more explanation is in order.

On the back-end of things, I’ll be able to maintain the site and keep the code current — the day to day operation of web applications is right up my alley.  Additionally, I’ve done professional audio production in the past, so creating quality podcasts will also be a fairly simple task, which comes to the big issue…  What’s my legal experience?!

Glad you asked!  In addition to my family and those pesky day and night jobs, I’ve also made it a goal in my life to earn my J.D..   So, working for a college, I get fairly sweet deals on tuitions (read: free) at my institution and at the University of Delaware.  So, I’m currently in a connected program between these two educational facilities to obtain my A.A.S./B.A. in Criminal Justice as a Pre-Law Major before going off to Widener University’s School of Law, so I will be producing podcasts on the material that will be covered in my course of study.

So, in the meantime, we’ll be doing a bit of house cleaning and re-organizing to get everything up to date — hopefully, you won’t notice much of a change.  Once the Fall semester begins, I’ll look at posting a podcast introduction and follow it up with what’s being covered.

If you have any suggestions for updates, content or changes, please leave a comment and we’ll make a list to see what’s workable.

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