Legal Research

Law Students ? Perceptions and Reality

By Connie Crosby

In Friday’s episode of Law Librarian Conversations podcast, we talked with two social media-savvy third year law school students to get a dose of reality on what they think about social networking, online communication, legal research and practice skills. Our guests were Laura Bergus from Iowa who runs a legal podcast called Legal Geekery and writes for Lawyerist.com and Huma Rashid from Chicago’s John Marshall Law School, who runs a personal blog called The Reasonably Prudent Law Student where she offers budget fashion tips and thoughts on being a law student. Both Laura and Huma participate in the Social Media Law Student site.

My big question for them was about how their participation in social networking would be viewed by future employers, and was surprised that one felt law firms would not be looking at this unless she was involved in profession-related discussions online, while the other had been approached for work through the social networks.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).