Life of a Law Student

Hi LoaLS Readers,

I am a 1L at the University of Pittsburgh, and avid LoaLS reader.   As I told Neil in my e-mail, the resources he has have been extremely helpful to me in my first year.  Neil is letting me post here about the 2008 Webby Awards and JURIST, the site I write for.  JURIST was nominated this year for a Webby in the law category.

As a Webby Award nominee, JURIST is also eligible to win a People’s Voice Award. I am writing here to ask you to vote for JURIST. JURIST is up against the ABA Journal, a Goliath to JURIST’s David.  However, with help from the law student online community like LoaLS readers, I believe JURIST can win the award.

Voting on Webby nominees is open to the public from April 8th to May 1st. To vote for JURIST, go to the “People’s Voice” voting site by clicking here. Register (you may need to scroll down), get the activation code that will be sent to your e-mail account, then log in to the People’s Voice site, click on the “Website” grouping, scroll down to “Society” and vote in the Law category. The process takes just a couple of minutes. It’s easy.

Headquartered at Pitt Law, JURIST is powered by a team of some 45 law student reporters, editors and web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts who volunteer their time and talent to the project, working with leading legal experts from around the world to provide up-to-the minute legal news, primary source research and analysis as an educational service to the public and the legal community.

Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions: josh at joshcamson dot com.

Thanks to Neil for letting me post here!!

Josh Camson

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The company that runs the back-end CMS I use (Podango) is still experiencing problems. They transitioned servers last night, and now I’m unable to log in to my control panel to manage audio and troubleshoot the problems with the recently uploaded audio.

I have sent them an email, and hope to get this resolved shortly.

Unfortunately, time I spend fixing the site is not time I can spend recording. This is getting quite frustrating…

- Neil

Update: Podango has fixed things are their end, and hopefully this weekend I’ll be able to start recording and posting new content.

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Hey all,

So last semester is over, and a new semester is about to begin. You may have noticed a few episodes up, but they are taking time to get up (and often don’t work if you go to listen to them).

Here’s what’s going on. The back-end Content Management System I use was taken over by another organization. Since that hand-over, technical problems have begun occurring. The CMS team sent out an email apologizing to the entire user base regarding these problems, but they have not yet all been resolved.

These technical problems slowed me down quite a bit over winter break, when I hoped to clear out the episode backlog. I’ve also been slowed down because I’m recording Copyright Law first. (It’s not that I don’t understand the material, the opposite in fact. I’m being much more careful and re-recording episodes if I’m not completely satisfied with them.) I’ve also been busy over Winter Break with coaching our school’s national trademark Moot Court team.

I anticipate this semester to be a bit easier than last semester. First, I’m taking a few less credit hours. Second, five of those hours are internships (ie no reading, recording, or exams). Third, I don’t have the writing credit hours that I did last semester. Finally, I don’t have a Saturday class, as that drains the life out of you.

So that’s where we’re at. I’m going to keep troubleshooting these back-end problems, and try to get Copyright Law recorded in the near future. As always, feel free to contact me with questions.

- Neil

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It’s been brought to my attention that audio is unavailable at the moment. This is a problem with our external host. I am looking into it, and hope for things to be resolved shortly.

In the meantime, you might want to check http://lifeofalawstudent.com/bulkaudio/. It’s not as pretty, but all of the episodes are available there.

- Neil

Update: All appears to be back to normal now.

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Hey everyone.

Just an FYI: I have not forgotten about or abandoned LoaLS. The transition back to law school has required significantly more time than I had expected. I also had to spend a great deal earlier this semester writing an appellate brief for Moot Court.

I have fall break coming up, and I am hopeful that I can begin recording new episodes.

- Neil

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