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by Sharon D. Nelson Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.
Digital Detectives: Catalyst's Free E-Discovery Practicum for Law Schools
November 16, 2015
In the most recent edition of our Digital Detectives podcast, we enjoyed our conversation with Bill Hamilton, the executive director of the E-Discovery Project at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law.
Only about 30 law schools nationwide offer e-discovery courses. To address the gap, e-discovery provider Catalyst developed a free practicum that aims to give law students the necessary experience to enter the workforce with adequate practical knowledge about e-discovery. Topics we discussed include:
- What a practicum is (we had to look it up)
- The students' use of e-discovery software
- Instructional videos, structured exercises, and quizzes with feedback
- Catalyst’s interest in education and its cloud-based platform
- Testing to strengthen retrieval capacity rather than as an assessment tool
- Applying the case law to concrete situations
- The grading process: low stakes testing and evaluation
- The need for law schools to provide more practical e-discovery training
The practicum got rave reviews from the students – no surprise there – the teaching of practical skills is still somewhat rare in many law schools. Good conversation – thank you Bill!
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