Jim Walsh

Reference Services Librarian & Adjunct Professor

Involvement:

Professional experience and associations:

Admitted to practice in Kentucky, Ohio and federal courts in 1999.

Litigation Associate, Cors & Basett, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999-2003.

Adjunct Professor, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, 2000-03.

Member, American Association of Law Libraries ("AALL").

Chair, Technology Competency Committee, AALL Computer Services Special Interest Section, 2006-07.

Member, School Board, Saint Joseph Catholic School, Macon, Georgia, 2004-07.

Coach, Chess Club, Saint Joseph Catholic School, Macon, Georgia, 2007-present.

Member, Board of Directors, ARC-Macon, 2009 - present. 

Publications:

Introduction to Legal Research Outline, click here: Scribd.com

Book Review, Managed Care Litigation, Legal Info. Alert, June 2006, at 12;

Book Review, The Lease Negotiation Handbook, Legal Info. Alert, July/August 2004, at 14;

Book Review, The Power Trial Method (PTM), Legal Info. Alert, June 2004, at 13;

Book Review, The Energy Handbook, Legal Info. Alert, Jan. 2004, at 9;

Niehoff v. Surgidev Corp: No Preemption of Kentucky Tort Law Claims by the Federal Medical Device Amendments, 25 Northern Kentucky Law Review 615 (1998) (.pdf version from HeinOnline)

Presentations:

Casemaker Exposed - Dynamic Web Updates: RSS & Blogs, for, Beyond Google: Efficient and Reliable Legal Research on the Web, Georgia CLE program, Nov. 2005. Co-presented with John M. Perkins and Uwe "Ed" Beltz.

Honors:

• Cum laude graduate, Chase College of Law
• Member, Northern Kentucky Law Review, 1997-1998
• CALI Excellence Awards for Legal Research & Writing, Constitutional Law I & II, and Family Law
• Member, Scribes Society of Writers on Legal Subjects.

Teaches:

Introduction to legal research; advanced legal research; specialized research strategies for: federal tax law, federal securities law, environmental law, litigation, advanced web searching. Adjunct Professor teaching advanced legal writing.

Interests:

Areas of law -legal research, technology and law, U.S. constitutional law, intellectual property, administrative law, appellate practice, environment/natural resources law and critical legal studies.

Other interests -playing with my kids, running, movies, American studies, digital librarianship, sociology/anthropology, open-source software and information, geocaching, and building Lego Mindstorm robots.  Cataloging my books on LibraryThing.