Heard Enough From Me?

I am introducing a new feature here today: Edjurist Contributors. The contributors will be multi-post authors, thus, they are more than just guest-bloggers and deserve a term appropriate to their role. The contributors bring additional specialized knowledge to the blog and its audience, as I think you will quickly realize from our first contributor who I describe below. As this blog has matured over time, it has begun to fill a scholarly niche and has moved beyond me just posting random ed. law news stories and has become more a place for learning and discussion. Rest assured I will continue to post news when I come across it (or it is sent to me), but we are going to try to do at least one mid-week scholarly post per week that is geared toward professional development and discussion. I think that fits well with our new association with CASTLE and the recent broadening of the Edjurist site over the past few months.

So, today we are introducing our first Contributor: Scott Bauries. Scott currently is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and I am glad to have him as a colleague at UK. Soon enough, we will be calling him Dr. Scott Bauries as he is close to finishing his Ph.D. - which, like me, will be his second doctorate after his Juris Doctorate. His degrees are both from the University of Florida. Scott has been a federal law clerk for the Eleventh Circuit. Scott also worked for McGuireWoods, a very prestigious national law firm. But before Scott engaged in his legal career, he was a high school English teacher in Florida. Among his many specialties are school finance and civil procedure. In his first series of posts, he is going to address the e-document discovery requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that seem to have caused some confusion about what electronic communication schools need to be permanently storing for future litigation, especially in light of new Web 2.0 activities. Sounds fun, eh? So, please join me in welcoming Scott by reading and commenting on his posts in this series.