6:30PM-9:00PM
You are invited to a Cornell Law School and Cornell Law Association Alumni Networking Reception and Program
Co-sponsored with The Legal Information Institute (LII)
"Internet Law Resources: The WebMD Effect"
Primary law materials like caselaw, statutes, and regulations have been freely available on the Web for over a decade. Secondary sources that provide commentary and guidance are somewhat newer, but growing quickly as lawyers and law firms use them as marketing devices, and nontraditional publishers begin to offer explanation as well as access to the public. This program will discuss the "WebMD" effects of the availability of legal information: are clients coming through the door better informed about their situation? laboring under misunderstandings? better able to describe their problems to lawyers?
Presented by Thomas R. Bruce, Director and co-founder of the Legal Information Institute
Special thanks to Mike Margolis, JD '79, and Margolis & Tisman LLP for sponsoring this event!
Margolis & Tisman LLP
601 Montgomery Street, Suite 2030
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
6:30 PM Reception 7:30 PM Program
Hor d'oeuvres, beer and wine will be offered.
Cost: $20 per person
Please Register Online by Tuesday, October 27 or by calling the Alumni Affairs Office at 607.255.5251.
See Who's Coming
Thomas R. Bruce
Director and co-founder of the Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
The Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School was the first public legal information web site in the world. A pioneer in browser development and of the Web in general, Mr. Bruce is also the creator of numerous online legal resources ranging from a fifteenth-century English law text in Latin and English to online course materials in law at Cornell and Harvard, as well as most of the collections at the LII. He has been a Fellow of the Center for Online Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, and a Senior International Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. He currently serves on the ABA Committee on the Future of e-Rulemaking, and as a director of the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). He has also installed commercial refrigeration equipment, stage-managed opera professionally, and built furniture for avant-garde director and designer Robert Wilson. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Drama.
