Website version 2.0 of the LDDC website has launched! This is the last installment of the LDDC website for the Spring 2020 student attorneys who will be graduating at the end of this semester. The main objective of version 2.0 was to refine with small upgrades and finalize decisions on […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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To paraphrase Al Pacino’s character in the 1999 film Any Given Sunday: “The [data] we need are everywhere around us.” Joining the Legal Data & Design Clinic was an eye-opening experience for the inaugural class of student attorneys. Few of us probably realized the growth and appreciation that was in […]
COVID-19 has affected law schools and law students in a way that has never been experienced before. The transition from in-person to online learning has forced law schools to take untraditional approaches to how they teach students. Law school is already a difficult and stressful time for students. Adding the […]
If you are a lawyer or law student and don’t already know about Slack, you probably should. This post is primarily aimed at folks who have some Slack exposure and want to sharpen their chops, but for the entirely uninitiated, just know this: Slack is a communications app designed to […]
Today the LDDC releases version 1.3 of its website. This is the second release since the global pandemic moved our clinic’s operations entirely online and our first release where all of the project work and coordination took place without in-person interactions. We feel lucky that our individual circumstances have permitted […]
Changing one’s legal name is often a deeply personal decision. Current Maryland law requires one wishing to change his/her/their name to publish it in a local print newspaper and the internet for online circulation. This could be particularly troubling for individuals in the transgender community who do not wish to […]
In our last in-person class before going entirely online due to COVID-19, the LDDC welcomed Matthew Stubenberg to our seminar on March 11, 2020. Matthew demonstrated his CLUE system and opened our eyes to ways data scraping can help improve criminal justice. Now the Associate Director of Legal Technology at […]
Version 1.2 of the website has launched! The primary objective for this release was to change the design to make the website more accessible to all. After this change, we enlisted the help of blind UB law student Garret Mooney to do a trial viewing of our webpage, and he […]
On July 1, 2017, a new law went into effect in the state of Maryland. It sought to curb the number of defendants being held in Maryland jails for an inability to pay bail. Now, two and half years later, how much has bail reform helped the underprivileged and poor […]
Student attorneys successfully represented the LDDC this week in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in Annapolis. The Committee heard testimony on House Bill 280, which would disallow the suspension of driver’s licenses for merely failing to pay traffic-related fines and fees. Nearly a dozen testifying witnesses in support of […]
Version 1.1 of the LDDC website is up and running! We have expanded the information about our student attorneys as well as added information about the LDDC Supervisors. Additionally, through our client work, we have learned of a few invaluable tools for researching federal case documents and information. Our instructional […]
This year, Baltimore will become the first city in the country to openly subject its citizens to continuous aerial video surveillance. The LDDC encourages folks to come out to our University of Baltimore Law School at 7:00 pm on February 25th to participate in a discussion with attorney Ivan Bates […]
We at the LDDC have a keen interest in how visual representations can convey complex information in an immediately effective way. Recently, I noticed an impressive graphic in a New York Times article about the coronavirus outbreak that demonstrates many of the qualities of a successful visual. Here it is: […]
Attention student attorneys, we are live! Explore this site to see who we are, what we do, and materials on important topics. One part of what we do is be the other clinics’ resource on the case management system Clio. Please refer to the “Clio Guide” for a thorough walk-through […]
Clio is a valuable case management system the LDDC utilizes for all aspects of the clinic’s operation. In addition to just serving our clients, we the student attorneys of the LDDC have taken it upon ourselves to be the clinic-wide resource for breaking down Clio’s functionality to all other student […]
LDDC student designers are hard at work at the first “official” iteration of this LDDC website. We plan to launch the evening of Friday, January 31, 2020. Of course, our version 1.0 will very much be a prototype. But as Margaret Hagan says (speaking of her favorite design mindset), “Everything […]