The Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa (EMSSA) posted a presentation on an ethical model for emergency medicine on their website.
The presentation was from the WCDEM Conference in B.C.
For the upcoming cover of Canadian Lawyer magazine. Thanks to Gail Cohen, editor.
Parker Mason, “a CNW Group colleague, friend, teammate, and BlogCampaigning contributor” of Heather Morrison, covered the Social Media Guide for Canadian Law Firms,
Omar Ha-Redeye said it “is likely to become one of the primary sources for Canadian firms looking to enter this area.”
Steve Matthews called it “a nice overview of the benefits of social media investment.”
And Garry J. Wise wrote that it “thoroughly canvasses the key social media platforms and provides much-needed context via thoughtful comments from several Canadian lawyers who are constructively engaging online.”
My vote against this misbegotten war is the best vote I have cast in the United States Senate since I was elected in 1962. And my call more than a year ago _ more than a year ago _ to bring our troops home is one of my proudest moments. - Sen. Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)
In his regular column for Lawyers Weekly Magazine, freelance technology writer Luigi Benetton quoted Omar Ha-Redeye in Draft, edit docs in real time, in the Aug. 21, 2009 edition.
Omar Ha-Redeye, a University of Western Ontario law student, shares Smith’s point of view. “It’s all incredibly inefficient, especially in light of the technology we have today,” he says, adding that lawyers will need to better their productivity using such measures. “If they don’t, their competitors will,” he says.
…“The majority of graduating lawyers are now female, and the majority of practising lawyers are not,” Ha-Redeye notes. “Legal practise is not conducive to having a family, picking up kids, dropping off kids and those types of responsibilities, which are not necessarily gender-specific but tend to be, given our history.”
…Ha-Redeye believes that collaboration systems might strengthen groupthink in organizations as hierarchical as law firms.
“They’re different from anonymous tools like Wikipedia,” he says. “People may be highly deferential to those higher in a hierarchy than they are.”
Reviews on Slaw and Law is Cool.
If you’re a Canadian law firm trying to figure out how to use social media, Heather Morrison of CNW Group has a guide for you.
Morrison quotes Omar Ha-Redeye,
A Student’s Perspective
Many law students are extremely risk averse and concerned about how recruiters and senior partners will view them. For this reason, many are not taking advantage of the online space.
Omar Ha-Redeye is an exception to this. Ha-Redeye sees social media as a way to showcase his legal analysis and ability to write legal documents and memos. Social media has allowed him to build an online profile and establish confidence in his ability among his peers. He is one of the first law students in Canada to regularly blog and podcast to audiences on legal matters, posting on LawIsCool and Slaw. He can also be found on Twitter.
It is important to Ha-Redeye to join a law firm that sees the value in social media and general branding of their firm and lawyers. Members of the social media community often develop a following and their readers will track their work wherever they go.
This following is a form of human capital and is very valuable in business retention and development for a firm.
From Dough Jasinksky’s Legal Marketing Canada:
CNW Group White Paper on Social Media Use by Canadian Law Firms
CNW Group (formerly Canada NewsWire) has just released an 11 page white paper on Social Media Use by Canadian Law Firms. The report covers familiar ground for those who are already deeply immersed in the area, but for firms and lawyers who are just coming to the discussion, it provides a good overview from an independent 3rd party and introduces many of the key players in the Canadian legal social media community.
A hat tip to the one-man/law student publishing empire Omar Ha-Redeye for highlighting the document on SLAW.
The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine has posted pictures from the 2009 conference in Victoria, B.C.
Omar Ha-Redeye was one of the speakers this year.
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At least that’s what David Lat of Above the Law thinks, after seeing this video by Torys LLP on Law is Cool featuring Adam Banack and Adrienne DiPaolo:
Despite producing a social media release for these videos, the Law is Cool entry ranks much higher, and is even above the fold on Google.
The Online Schools blog listed Law is Cool as one of the Top 100 blogs internationally for law students:
Blogs from Law School Students
Peer experience is an important resource for any student. Law students rely on classmates for notes, projects and advice. Here are the best blogs for law students by law students.
- Life of a Law Student: This blog follows the efforts of a student trying to earn his law degree.
- Law Student: An amazing resource for law students, this blog has outlines and tips to help ease the burden excess studies cause.
- Reason and Liberty: A third year student at the University of Michigan, this law student blogs about topics relating to students.
- Full Metal Attorney: The posts offered by this Nebraska law student, range from clever article to adorable doodles.
- Lunching With Lions: A blog from a law student based in Austin, Texas, the posts on this site are funny and insightful.
- Law School for Dummies: This bloggers is a student at a southern law school writing about the obstacles trying to become a lawyer.
- Starting to Melt: A blog from a mom, this law school students must juggle family and studies.
- Legal Geekery: This bloggers is a third year law student at Penn State and writes about topics effecting the legal community.
- This Way Up: From a student at the University of Washington, Seattle, this blogger writers about being an advocate while still in school.
- So The Bear Says: This blog from a Baylor Law student muses on the value and future of his education.
- Butterfly: A blog from a law student juggling marriage, work and law school. Most posts deal with legal studies but many offer advice for dealing with life stress.
- Divine Angst: An entire career in law school is documented on this blog written by a clever, graduating student.
- Legan Numbness: This well-written blog details the pitfalls of first year law student.
- Lawschoolblogger: The posts on this blog aim to distract its author from the stress of being a law student. Check out his hilarious writing.
- Wish I Would Have Known: With advice and information from current and past law students, this blogs gives students all the advice they need to know.
- Law Is Cool: A fun, interesting blog for Canadian law students, this site has forums for discussion in addition to excellent articles.
- Catholic Student-at-Law: This blogger uses his articles to reconcile the differences between the legal practice and religious faith.
- Brown Boy Blog: A blogger based in Texas, this student writes about being a minority in law school.
- Eagleionline: A blog from Boston College law students, the posts on this site provide students an outlet for frustration.
- Legal Lane: A law student blogs the details of her life, follow the fun and excitement at this site.
- Law Ingenue: Follow the tales of this on-traditional law student as she rises through the legal ranks.
- Law School Funk: The chronicles of this law student are hilarious and fun to read. His musings on tests, class competition and summer internships have a lot of information in addition to being entertaining.
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