About the Authors

Ruth Ann McKinney
Clinical Professor of Law
University of North Carolina
School of Law


Scott Childs
Deputy Director of the Law Library
and
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
University of North Carolina
School of Law

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Introduction - Chapter 1

Sample Client Assigning Memo

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Introduction to the Online Supplement

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Scott Childs Deputy Director of the Law Library and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Contact Author

Education:

• B.S., 1982, Auburn University
• J.D., 1987, University of Alabama
• M.L.S., 1994, Florida State University

Bio:

After earning his J.D. at the University of Alabama, Professor Childs practiced law with the Legal Services Corporation of Alabama, serving first as a staff attorney and then as senior staff attorney. Upon completion of the MLS degree he served as a law reference librarian and later head of collection development at the Cornell Law School Library before becoming Head of Reference at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center Library at Louisiana State University. Professor Childs joined the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina as the Assistant Director of Public Services in 2001 before becoming the Deputy Director in 2007. He taught first year legal research and various online legal research seminars at Cornell and LSU before coordinating the advanced legal research and advanced legal research and writing courses at UNC. He has been active in national and regional law library associations and has published in the area of legal research and associated services.