Associate Professor and Library Director Kristina Niedringhaus

Associate Professor of Law and Library Director, Kristina Niedringhaus has published Ethics Considerations Related to Legal Research Practices: A Selective Annotated Bibliography in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.  According to Niedringhaus, “[e]rrors in legal research can lead to missed filing deadlines, legal arguments that fail to be advocated, and loss of property and freedom. Despite the importance of performing adequate legal research to providing competent representation, it is not an area of legal malpractice heavily covered in the literature.”  In this work, Niedrinhaus aims to provide accessible information for legal research, writing, and ethics faculty to use in discussing with their students the ethical ramifications of inadequate legal research.  Towards that end, the bibliography is divided in six sections: 1) ineffective or inadequate research generally; 2) failure to discuss research with client; 3) missed dates due to inadequate legal research; 4) violations involving fees for research; 5) duty to research and know the law; and 6) outsourcing of services, legal research services, and unauthorized practice of law.

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0270319X.2012.654725

Dean Emeritus Steven H. Steinglass

On Thursday, March 22nd, Dean Emeritus Steven H. Steinglass was one of the featured speakers at a Colloquium held in Columbus on the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission.  The program, sponsored by the Commission and the Ohio State University College of Law, featured discussions on Ohio’s experiences with constitutional commissions, Ohio’s history of constitutional revision, the role of state constitutions, and procedural options for the Constitutional Modernization Commission.

Dean Steinglass, who was a member of the Planning Committee for the Colloquium, made a presentation on the History of the Ohio Constitution and participated in two panel discussions.  The entire program was recorded by the Ohio Channel and is available at:

http://www.ohiochannel.org/MediaLibrary/Media.aspx?fileId=134888

In addition, the report of the Planning Commission and other information about constitutional revision in Ohio are available on C|M|LAW’s Ohio Constitutional Law and History website:

https://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/ohioconstitution