Clarification

Rhonda Beassie has alerted me to a source of confusion in the last issue of Legalese. In Erin Jackson's opinion article on the Office of Career Development, she talked about "Spring OCI." Apparently, there is no Spring OCI. The office does host 7-9 employers who do on-campus interviewing in the Spring but it is not a "formal" Spring OCI, Prof. Beassie said. I'm very sorry if you were confused. We will be running a clarification in the next issue (Nov. 28).

~Emily

Legalese: We know funny.

If you're here, you're probably here because you have been reading Legalese and are just such an ardent admirer of the journalism and pithy comment you find sandwiched between its pages that you are hungry for more.
What I, as the frantic first year funny-man, hope to get out of this is: things that you think I should be talking about. So my fellow to-be-lawyers, do you know funny? If you do then tell me. I miss an awful lot with my face stuffed with Subway sandwiches and feeling like Atlas everyday carrying 100lb backpacks ( us part-timers don't get carrels).
Leave us writers a message and if I'm not mistaken you can even e-mail me an idea as well. Wow, it's all about you now!

Keep moving.

We're looking for an advertising sales rep, additional writers

Legalese seeks someone who might be interested in heading up a new advertising department for the paper as an Ad Sales Representative. The ad sales rep will be responsible for corresponding with advertisers, introducing him/herself to businesses that may want to advertise in Legalese, and possibly helping advertisers to design their ads. If this sounds like something you would be interested in doing please contact Emily Gelman:

esgelman *at* central.uh.edu.

Also, Thursday, November 2 at noon, we're holding an interested writers meeting at the Legalese office in the basement. Legalese holds an interested writers meeting for each issue. Students interested in contributing to the November issue of Legalese are invited to attend.

Photos from Saturday's SBA Halloween party

SBA President Ivy Grey provides a link to photos from Saturday night's Halloween party. The photos come courtesy of Travis Parks, a 1L who's also a semi-pro photography buff.

To access the photos, you'll need a password:

I<3SBA

Yeah we do.

Welcome!

Hey students and people-who-are-just-stopping-by!
Thanks for visiting the Legalese blog. Hopefully you have had a chance to look over the latest issue of Legalese. Feel free to leave your comments about any particular articles or your general feelings about this issue. "Good" comments and "bad" comments are welcome (though I of course like the good ones best!). Also, as I am a blog-newbie, let me also know if you have any ideas for the blog. I love working on Legalese and I hope that you guys like reading it.
~Emily~

New edition of Legalese is out.

It's also on the Web. You can get it here in handy PDF format. The two most recent prior editions are also available here.

Later today, Emily will announce the new blog on Briefly. We hope everyone enjoys reading and commenting as much as we're going to enjoy writing it.

Also new in Internet Explorer: one-stop search

My review of Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 (in the latest print edition of Legalese) left out an important common feature of both browsers. Both IE and Firefox include a search box on the right side of the toolbar that can be customized to access numerous search engines in addition to Google or Yahoo. For example, you can query Wikipedia, USA Today, eBay, or Amazon directly from your browser simply by installing the plug-ins for those sites.

To add search additional engines to your browser, click on the links below:

• for Internet Explorer 7.0
  
• for Firefox 2.0

Please note: Firefox has always had this feature, but if you use Internet Explorer, you will need to install the new version. The search plug-ins do not work with earlier versions of IE.

Building a virtual community

Welcome to the virtual home of Legalese, student newspaper for the University of Houston Law Center. Our editor, Emily Gelman, will give you a more formal welcome later, when we launch the blog officially. For now, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Marshall Preddy, a 3L at UH Law School. I write about tech/web issues for Legalese. With blessings from Emily and our associate editor, James Caruthers, I've spearheaded this new project, the Legalese Blog.

It only took us about 10 minutes to the site up and running using Blogger.com, but the real effort is going to come later, as we begin supplementing our coverage in the print edition of Legalese. Because printing a single issue of the paper can get pretty expensive, Legalese only comes out 5 times per year. We have to be pretty smart about how we spend our modest organizational stipend from UH. But the blog, well, we can post here as much as we want and it's free. The hope is that we can bring you more content more often, and more quickly.

Another advantage of our new blog is that it's a two way street. Unlike our print version, you can respond to our posts with your own comments. We hope to start a conversation with our readers, and eventually build a community for our fellow law students that can survive from year to year, no matter who's in charge of the paper.

Soon, Emily, James, and all our staff writers will join me in updating the blog on a regular basis. We hope you check back with us often.

Finally, I'd like to thank Gina Alsdorf, a Washington State lawyer with her own blog. She previously had the legalese.blogspot.com address, and was kind enough to let us have it, no questions asked. That's an awfully good way to start.