University Archive: Recent submissions

  • Effective Use of the Hyphen, En Dash, and Em Dash in Legal Writing 
    Craig, Brian (The Federal Lawyer, 2019-10)
    This article provides a short overview when legal writers should use—and not use—these three different dash marks. The three punctuation dash marks include: the hyphen (-), the en dash (–), and the em dash (—).
  • Clinical News: Improving Warfarin Adherence in Elders 
    Brown, Sarah J. (Today's Geriatric Medicine, 2018-07)
    Medication adherence is at problematic levels in the geriatric population, and lack of adherence to warfarin therapy is a significant issue. Failure to adhere to the medication guideline for warfarin results in life-threatening ...
  • Legal Incubators Help New Solo Practitioners Overcome Hurdles 
    Pritikin, Martin (Attorney at Work, 2017-07-10)
    Legal incubators can bridge the gap for new solo practitioners by helping them to reduce overhead, providing training on the mechanics of operating a law practice, and giving access to both mentors and clients. Technology ...
  • Legal Incubators Can Help New Lawyers And Society 
    Pritikin, Martin (Law360, 2017-08-07)
    Millions of Americans are in need of affordable legal services. Thousands of law school graduates need experience and a way to pay off their loans. Legal incubators can help them both at the same time.
  • It’s time to expand online legal education 
    Pritikin, Martin (eSchoolMedia & eCampus News, 2018-07-31)
    A recent proposal by the ABA to increase the number of credits that law schools may offer online doesn’t go nearly far enough.
  • ABA Online Credit Increase A Step In The Right Direction 
    Pritikin, Martin (Law360, 2018-09-04)
    The ABA recently raised its limits on online learning from one-sixth to one-third of total credits. While this is a step in the right direction, it does not go nearly far enough, and the legal profession remains far behind ...
  • Are Law School Curriculums Preparing Students to Succeed? 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2018-05-08)
    After decades of calls for reform in legal education, many law schools are still not doing as much as they could to prepare students for practice. Law schools should change their hiring and promotion priorities and incentives, ...
  • Automation in the Legal Industry: How Will It Affect Recent Law School Grads? 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2018-03-07)
    Despite concerns that artificial intelligence will make lawyers obsolete, it is far more likely that it will shift their role and help make them more productive.
  • Preparing to Practice: How Incubators Help Law Students Pave Their Own Way 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2018-09-11)
    Legal incubators not only promote affordable legal services, but provide law school graduates with critical training both in the practice of law and the business of opening and operating a law firm.
  • People are flocking to law school again. Will there be jobs? 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2018-10-09)
    After a number of years of declines nationwide, law school applications are finally starting to rebound. But the legal profession still fails to address the large swaths of society that need legal representation but cannot ...
  • California Bar Exam disaster: Why it happened and what to do about it 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2019-01-09)
    Statewide results of the July 2018 California were disappointing. While the obvious culprit would seem to be law schools admitting unprepared students, a rigorous study showed that other factors account for the bulk of the ...
  • Utah's Online Dispute Platform is Streamlining Small Claims 
    Pritikin, Martin (Law360, 2019-05-05)
    Utah has piloted a potentially groundbreaking program that allows small claims litigants to have their disputes negotiated or adjudicated entirely online.
  • Is the Uniform Bar Exam creating underprepared lawyers? 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2019-05-13)
    While there has been concern that law school graduates taking the Uniform Bar Exam are less prepared for practice than those who took state-specific bar exams, other factors are more likely at play.
  • California’s new frontier: Accreditation of distance learning law schools 
    Pritikin, Martin (Cypress Magazines, 2019-07-23)
    The State Bar of California recently became the first accrediting body to open a path to full accreditation of online law schools, which has the potential to begin a transformation within the field of legal education.
  • Creating a National Data Privacy Law for the United States 
    Jamison, Shaun (Mitchell Hamline School of Law, 2019)
    The United States (U.S.) lacks a cohesive data privacy law. This article will examine the need for a national data privacy law, challenges to creating a national privacy law, and possible paths forward to a national privacy law.
  • Creating a Positive Classroom Environment to Meet the Needs of the Foster Child 
    LaCour, Misty; McGlawn, Penny; Dees, Laura (Project Innovation, 2016)
    Foster children often struggle socially, emotionally, and academically in the school setting leading to school failure. By establishing a positive classroom environment, teachers can provide for the needs of the foster ...
  • Constructing Student Knowledge in the Online Classroom: The Effectiveness of Focal Prompts 
    Howell, Ginger; LaCour, Misty; McGlawn, Penny (Project Innovation, 2017-01)
    The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of three Structured Divergent discussion board prompt designs on knowledge construction in a graduate online course. According to Andrews (1980), the form of the question ...
  • The Classroom Management Experience of Educators in Diverse Classrooms: Informing Teacher Education 
    Dees, Laura; LaCour, Misty (Arkansas Association of Teacher Educators, 2018-03)
    The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the phenomenological nature of seventy two education professionals and to report findings to express the cognitive strategies employed regarding classroom management. ...
  • Meeting the Needs of the Foster Child: Perceptions of the K-6 Teacher 
    McGlawn, Penny; LaCour, Misty (Common Ground Research Networks, 2018)
    A growing number of children are entering the foster-care system every year. The trauma experienced by these children negatively impacts them. This current study sought to determine the perceptions of foster children by ...
  • Improving Literacy Development in Foster Children: Best Practices for the K-6 Classroom 
    LaCour, Misty; McGlawn, Penny; Dees, Laura (Common Ground Research Networks, 2016)
    Foster children who have experienced abuse or neglect often struggle academically, particularly in the area of literacy development. This research study explored current teachers’ best practices for improving literacy ...