As a graduate fellow with the Center for Legal & Court Technology, my role for the past year has been to work with my colleagues to design, build, and launch a new website for CLCT. We finally launched this weekend.
Category Announcements
Some adjustments
I spent some time last night modifying the site design here. I’m pretty pleased with it.
I’ve implemented new fonts by way of the Google Web Fonts collection, which is really neat. The titles and post text are in Quattrocentro, while the meta text and sidebar text are in Quattrocentro Sans. I also fiddled with padding and borders, which I think makes the site a little friendlier on the eyes and scannable. Finally, on each post page, I’ve added social elements: the Twitter “tweet” button and the Google +1 button.
I’ve also made some other adjustments in the past few months. In particular, you may have noticed the hyphenation in post text. This comes via a plug-in called Hyphenator. It’s not always perfect, but I think it works rather nicely overall. The categories and archives are also new and – to the extent that such things can be – fun. They come via the Collapsing Archives and Collapsing Categories plug-ins.
Let me know your thoughts!
1L Complete.
It’s over! This morning I put an end to my first year of law school when I handed in my law journal write-on competition packet (funny story: the topic was copyright). The past two months have been pretty exhausting, but I’m glad to be done and looking forward to getting to San Francisco for the summer. Adventures will include hiking Half Dome, river rafting, probably another cross-country drive at the end of the summer… oh yeah, and helping defend teh internetz.
I also wanted to point to this announcement that I received first place in the annual legal writing competition for first year students at William & Mary. No one actually knew this competition existed until after we had turned in our required research memorandums, so it was a pleasant surprise to receive this award. Not a big fan of the picture they chose to use, but, hey, what can you do?
EFF Yeah
I’m excited to share that I’ll be spending the summer as a legal intern with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco. I’m not sure yet what I’ll be specifically working on, but I’ll generally be conducting research, drafting briefs and memoranda, and otherwise lending a hand wherever I can be useful. I’m looking forward to a great summer of hard work and lots of learning!
A Time to Give
I just finished doing my holiday giving, and I encourage you to do the same. Here are the organizations where I sent my dollars:
