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Jane O’Connell
Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Expertise
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Research
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Texas
- State Bar of Texas
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Professional Experience
- Associate Dean for Legal Information
- Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- - Current
- Legal Skills Professor: Senior Lecturer, July 2021 - Present; Lecturer, July 2018 - July 2021.
- Deputy Director
- Tarlton Law Library/Jamail Center for Legal Research, University of Texas School of Law
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- Associate Director for Public Services, Instruction & Research, June 2009 - August 2011; Interim Coordinator of Public Services, June 2008 – May 2009; Director of Faculty and Student Services, September 2007 – June 2008; Head of Student Services, September 2004 – August 2007.
- Associate, Intellectual Property Section
- Thompson & Knight, L.L.P., Austin, Texas
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- Associate, Intellectual Property Section
- Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Austin, Texas
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Education
- University of Texas - Austin
- M.S. | Information Studies
- Honors: Mary E. Cleveland Centennial Endowed Presidential Scholarship
- University of Kansas School of Law
- J.D.
- Honors: Jordan and Shirley Haines Scholarship
- University of Kansas
- B.A. | Biochemistry and Film Studies
- Honors: Harold W. Otto National Merit Scholarship; Freshman Honor Scholarship; Phi Beta Kappa.
Professional Associations
- Southeastern Association of Law Schools
- Current
- Uniform Law Commission, Redaction of Personal Information from Public Records Study Committee
- Observer
- - Current
- Society of Academic Law Library Directors
- - Current
- Activities: Executive Board, 2023-Present
- Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries
- - Current
- American Association of Law Libraries
- - Current
- Activities: Innovations in Technology Award Jury, 2024 - 2025; ALL-SIS Strategic Planning Task Force Coordinator, 2023 - 2024 ALL-SIS Chair/Vice-Chair/Immediate Past Chair, 2021 – 2024; Council of SIS Chairs, 2021-2022 LexisNexis Research Grant Jury, 2021 - 2022 Innovations in Technology Award Jury, 2020 - 2021 Annual Meeting Planning Committee, 2018 - 2019 Local Arrangements Committee, co-chair, 2016 - 2017 Local Arrangements Committee, 2013 - 2014 Digital Access to Legal Information Committee, 2011
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