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Investing Time in Your Teachers

There is a New Yorker cartoon from the ’80s that shows a bearded, middle-aged man sitting alone on a couch during a cocktail party. With one arm slung on the back of the couch, the man, surely drunk, stares happily into space. As guests mingle at a distance, a woman peers over the man’s shoulder and exclaims, “My goodness, Professor Sydney, isn’t anyone talking to you?”

JOBS

The performance review. In concept, it sounds like a good idea: An employer regularly takes time to review the work of the employee in order to evaluate progress on such areas as professional goals, quality of work, job knowledge, potential, and interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Once reviewed, the employer shares this information with the employee who, after providing feedback and input, can move forward in a way that helps him grow professionally and benefits his employer. Good stuff, right?

LEGAL WRITING

Until well into the 20th century, there were traditionally thought to be only three professions: medicine, the ministry, and the law. Strange, isn’t it, to think that teachers, executives, accountants, scientists, and engineers were not considered professionals? That’s the old‑school view: only doctors, the clergy, and lawyers belonged to what were more specifically called the “learned professions.”

LEGAL RESEARCH

Believe it or not, it has been nearly 40 years since the first commercial legal research database was released to the public. The year was 1973 when Mead Data Central rolled out LEXIS, which for the first time gave users the ability to search the full text of court opinions. Legal research would never be the same.