Mari Cheney

Celebrating our PLLIP awards at #aall25

I got a beaver from ProView, a neck fan from Westlaw, a portable charger from ALM, and a Tide pen from TaxNotes.

Shoutout to Thomson Reuters for the permanent jewelry station at the Customer Appreciation Suite. I also loved the s’mores!

So far one of my favorite swag items at #aall25 is this make-your-own minifig from CALI

Scar Face When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, I went to the park with my family and some friends, where I decided to play fast and free on a metal teeter-totter.

My latest post on Substack is up! open.substack.com/pub/oxfordco...

This is Spring Break in your 40s: working from the vacation condo while the kids are on screens all day. But somehow it’s all okay because the unexpected snow is so beautiful.

08. The Dirty Little Secret I grew up in Hong Kong, where it was unusual not to have a helper at home.

New post: The Dirty Little Secret

Sure thing! I’ll find the page number. Can you email me to remind me? My email is in the AALL directory. Thank you!

Pls tell me you’re on Substack bc I need this kind of humor in my life & I’ve abandoned all other social media!

07. The Resistance My friend Jenny and I were recently talking about how we stopped shopping at Amazon and Target as an act of resistance, but that it seems so small.

New post: “So maybe this is me resisting Tr*mp & his tech bros, their complete lack of empathy, and the monumental breakdown of decency. Or maybe this is me resisting consumer culture because I need to create and words are the only thing I have.” open.substack.com/pub/oxfordco...

MythBusters’ Adam Savage & why I make students submit research plans: “Far from inhibiting or obstructing the making process, lists like these actually unlock your creative potential because they free up all that brainpower you would have otherwise been using to remember all this information.”

Mari Ferguson Cheney | Substack Pro-Oxford comma. Uses adverbs too much. Writes about motherhood, life after law school, religious deconstruction, and whatever else I feel like that day. First novel in the works.

Any law friends on Substack? I’d love to have you join me! I’m oxfordcommasociety.substack.com & I’d love to see what you’re writing.

My first post on Substack is up! open.substack.com/pub/marichen...

Is every librarian working today going to be editing the LibGuide they’ve been meaning to edit for the past 11 months and 29 days? 😂

Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? — The New Yorker The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love.

This is a fascinating article on the “Spotification” of music (I think I just made up that word!): “What does the music you’re not making sound like?” Listeners might wonder something similar. What does the music we’re not hearing sound like?”

My latest post for the LIT-SIS blog: Set Yourself Up for Success in the New Year: 5 New (to Me) Tech Tools

Thanks for the shoutout, Rebecca. One of my fav topics!!

Thank you for compiling!

I want to know this, too!!

I’m writing a blog post on the best books of 2024 & need your help.

What’s the best book you read this year & why?

Under Cover of Knight – Spoke Media

At work, we have a monthly True Crime meetup during a lunch break & yesterday I recommended Under Cover of Knight. spokemedia.io/undercoverof... Anyone else listening to this podcast?

Thank you for the recommendations!

Thank you! This sounds like a great read!

Thank you for these suggestions! I love Rachel Hawkins but I haven’t read The Heiress yet.

Oh, thank you! I haven’t read either of these.

No! Just something you read in 2024.

I’m writing a blog post on the best books of 2024 & need your help.

What’s the best book you read this year & why?

I have a joke about discovery, but opposing counsel needs to reply first

I have a joke about experts, but it’s speculative

I have the perfect legal research joke - I just need to Shepardize it first