24 Jul, 2007

Law Students: Ask About Your CALI CD....

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CALI is sending its annual shipment of CALI CD's to law schools by the end of the week. This year we're sending 140,000 CD's...enough for all law students, not just 1L's as in the past!

As an incoming student, or even as a current student, when school starts make sure you ask someone at your school for a free CD if one is not given to you! There should be enough to go around.

Read more about CALI CD's below...


What is the CALI CD?The CALI CD contains all of CALI's 675+ lessons in 32 subjects of law. It is not a demo CD, it is a complete collection of all CALI lessons. CALI Lessons are interactive, computer-based tutorials written by law professors. All CALI Lessons are listed here. Generally, the lessons are broken into different components of the different subjects.

See what other students said about CALI Lessons and how the lessons helped them in this post.

Aren't these available online too?Even though we put out a CD, all CALI Lessons are available on the web with a password as well as from the CD at cali.org for our member school students. I suggest using the online lessons as they are gauranteed the most up-to-date.

In order to get online access to CALI Lessons as a member school student, get the authorization code from your school's CALI contact. Again, someone at your library should be able to help you with this.

Suggestions of how to use your CALI CD and CALI Lessons.
This is important because when I got a CALI CD during 1L orientation and before working for CALI, the CD was given to me with little explanation.

I think a lot of students end up with this CALI CD as one of the many things they are given during orientation and they have no idea what purpose it serves. Because of this, they may never try it or just forget about it.

Some pointers for law students on how to use the CALI CD:

  1. Don't throw it away when you get it during orientation!
  2. Use the online lessons when you can and save the CD for times you don't have an internet connection, as mentioned above.
  3. Run through the CALI lesson on a given topic before class discussion on that topic.
  4. Alternatively or in addition to 3, run through the lessons on a given subject after that topic was discussed in class as reinforcement.
  5. Use CALI lessons as a refresher during the weeks before exams.

How to access CALI Lessons before law school starts.
If you're not attending a CALI member law school this fall or just want a head start on using CALI lessons, you can buy a subscription to CALI Lessons at learnthelaw.org.

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