Montclair State University - Department of Political Science and Law


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Jack Baldwin LeClair, MA EdS JD

  • Associate Professor of Political Science and Law
  • Deputy Chair of Poltical Science and Law 2006-
  • Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees of Montclair State University, 2001-2003
  • Chair: Carnegie Committee on Scholarship of Teaching, 2000-2005
  • Graduate Director - Legal Studies Programs, 1999-2004; 2006-
  • Montclair State University
  • Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043
  • OFFICE: 973.655.7953
  • FAX: 973.655.4251
  • leclairj@mail.montclair.edu
Areas of Expertise

Governance, Compliance, Intellectual Property, Human Resource Law, Affirmative Action, Arbitration, Dispute Resolution in the Workplace, Legal Technology: Cyberlaw, Legal Management; Employment and Civil Rights; Administrative Law.

Summary of Current Research

Governance, Compliance and Regulatory law in public sector institutions. Equal Protection in public accommodations. Electronic mediation and leveraging of the scholarship of teaching.

Courses Created

Cyberlaw LSLW545; Human Rights Law LSLW 574; Introduction to Jurisprudence LSLW 515; Arbitration and other Adjudicative Processes LSLW 553; International Law and Transnational Legal Problems LSLW577; Licensing, Copyright, and Advertising LSLW 547; Statutory and Regulatory Analysis LSLW 512; Private Sector Compliance with Public Regulations LSLW 545; Legal Information Management LSLW 572; Advanced Computer Systems in the Legal Environment LSLW 541; Law Office Management and Technoology LSLW550 and LSPR 450; Advanced Civil Litigation LSPR440; Legal Aspects of Human Resource Management LSLW 578; Contract Law LSPR 306; Advanced Computer Concepts LSPR 441; Legal Process and Procedure LSPR 300; Legal Reasoning LSLW 324; Legal Information Management LSLW 572; Rights Liberties and American Justice LSLW 360.

Publications
Books

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, I Sing the Law Electric (DeMoines, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 1992).

Contributing Editor

Gurdak, John A.; Eds: Baldwin-LeClair, Jack; Tayler, Marilyn; Computer Fundamentals for Legal Professionals, 3rd Ed., (Dallas: Pearson Publications, 1988).

Gurdak, John A.; Eds: Baldwin-LeClair, Jack; Tayler, Marilyn; Computer Fundamentals for Legal Professionals, 2nd Ed., (Dallas: Pearson Publications, 1988).

Gurdak, John A.; Nagle, Barbara, A.; Baldwin-LeClair, Jack. Computer Assisted Research for Legal Professionals, (Dallas: Pearson Publications, 1988).

Author - Refereed Journals

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Infobase News, "Infobases for the Small-to Medium-Size Law Firm: The Next Link in Hypertext", November/December 1996.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Journal of Paralegal Education and Practice. "Cooperative Mastery Learning in Computer-Aided Instruction: A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Computer Technology in a Paralegal Curriculum". Vol.11 No.1, Spring 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Bonfire of the Humanities: Some Observations on the Contribution of Post Modernism to Modern Education", Inquiry, Vol. 9 No. 1., September 1991.

Author - Other Professional Publications

Zeringo, Thomas A., & Baldwin-LeClair, Jack. (2001). "The Paucity of Male Elementary School Teachers: Discriminatory Hiring Practices and other Contributing Factors". The Annual Conference of Law Related Education. New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Cited: in Johnson, Amy S., "Recruiting and Recognizing Multiple Socially Situated Identities: consonance and contradiction in the pedagogy of a male pre-service early educator". Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 5, Number 1, Novermber, 2004; Eng, J.. "Male Elementary Teachers: Where are They?" Educational Insights Vol 8 No. 3, March, 2004).

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today. "LEGAL VIEWS and PREMISE Publisher". Vol.13 No.2, November/December 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today. "Could You Have the Jerusalem Virus?"". Vol.13 No.1, September/October 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack,"Novell's WordPerfect 6.1". Legal Assistant Today, Vol.12 No.6, July/August 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today. "Perfect Wordprocessing: Novell's WordPerfect for Windows 6.1". Vol.12 No. 5. May/June 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, ,"CD-ROM's From West Publishing, "Legal Assistant Today, Vol.12 No.4, March/April, 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, ,"Solving Training Issues with Individual Software", Legal Assistant Today, Vol.12 No.3 January/February, 1995.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today. "The Soul of a New Technology: The CD-ROM in the Law Office". Vol.12 No.2, November/December 1994.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today. "Desktop Communication". Vol.12 No.1, September/October 1994.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, The Bottom Line "More Bytes Breaking from Windows at Higher Speeds". (LawPractice Management Journal of the California State Bar Association). Vol 16 No. 2. June 1994.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today,"If I Could Put Time in a Bottle: Lotus Organizer 1.1 and Ticklex 6.6". Vol.11 No.6, July/August 1994.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today,"More Bytes Breaking from Windows at Higher Speeds: WordPerfect 6.0, Timeslips V and the Cyrix Chip". Vol.11 No.5, May/June, 1994.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today,"Go West Young Legal Professional: West Publishing's Desktop Practice Series Westlaw for Windows 5.2". Vol.11 No.4, March/April, 1994.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack and Marley Hochendoner; Legal Assistant Today, "The Well-Connected Legal Assistant: Exploring the New Frontier of Electronic Communication with LERN, Commworks, and the Internet. 11 No.3, January/February, 1994.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today, "What Byte from Yon Windows Breaks: Windows 3.1 and the Virtual Desktop". Creative Computing, Vol. 11 No. 2, November/December, 1993.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, et. al. Legal Assistant Today, "A CiteRite for Sore Eyes". Creative Computing, Vol. 11 No. 1, September/October, 1993.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today, "From New York to Dayton: New Technology on the Horizon". Creative Computing, Vol. 10 No. 6, July/August, 1993.

von Klan, Tatiana and Jack Baldwin-LeClair, Legal Assistant Today, "The Rollout the Software Polka: Eight Rules for Successful Software Rollout. Creative Computing, Vol. 10 No. 5, May/June, 1993.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today, "Love Techno-American Style: The Laptop and Laplink". Creative Computing, Vol. 10 No. 4, March/April, 1993.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, Legal Assistant Today, "Marvelous Updates from Timeslips and Borland: Timeslips 5.0 and Quattro Pro 4.0". Creative Computing, Vol. 10 No. 3, January/February, 1993.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, "Text Retrieval and Document Generation: ZyIndex".Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 10 No. 2, September/October, 1992.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, "Back to Basics: The Basic Components of an Efficient Law OFfice". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 9 No. 6, July/August, 1992.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack and Jean Barrett, "The Novell Office.". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 9 No. 5, May/June, 1992.

Baldwin-Clair, Jack, "Doctor DOS Speeds Operations- Ms. DOS Does Windows.". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 9 No. 4, March/April, 1992.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Holiday Software Roundup". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 9 No. 3, January/February, 1992.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Database Management with Paradox". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol.9 No. 2, November/December, 1991.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "As Time Goes By: Timebilling with Timeslips III". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 9 No. 1, September/October, 1991.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Is There Life after Lotus 123: Borland's Spreadsheet, Quattro Pro.", Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 8 No. 6, July/August, 1991.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Thanks for the Memory: Three User Interfaces which Operate Beyond DOS's 640K Memory Barrier", Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 8 No. 5, May/June, 1991.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, et. al., "The Gang of Four and other Leaders: Identifying and Managing Appropriate Technology for the Small to Medium Size Law Firm."Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 8 No. 4, March/April, 1991.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "The Six Million Dollar Paralegal: Issues in Training, Technology and Management in the Law Office." Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 8 No. 3, January/February, 1991.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Magic from Mead Data Central: Jurisoft's CompareRite, CiteRite II, and FullAuthority". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 8 No. 2, November/December, 1990.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Journey to the Promised LAN: Peer to Peer Networking with LANtastic". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 8 No. 1, September/October, 1990.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack and Peter Wilson, "Form Following Function in Document Production: Using Anderson Lawriter as a Law Office Productivity Tool". Legal Assistant Today, Creative Computing, Vol. 7 No. 6, July/August, 1990.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Compatibility, the 386SX, Timebilling, Accelerator Boards, and CALR Shortcuts:Answers to Frequently Asked Reader Questions". Legal Professional, Creative Computing, Vol. 7 No. 5, May/June, 1990.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Improving and Benchmarking Personal Productivity: Sidekick, TickleX and Wordperfect Macros". Legal Professional, Creative Computing, Vol. 7 No. 4, March/April, 1990.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Journey Back to the Future: The Future may be UNIX, but the Present Belongs to DOS". Legal Professional, Creative Computing, Vol. 7 No. 3, January/February, 1990.

Nagle, Barbara A., and Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Perritt, Henry H., How to Practice Law with Computers"(Book Review) , American Journal for Paralegal Education, Vol. 7 No. 3, 1989.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Computer Assisted Internal Research", Legal Professional, Creative Computing, Vol. 7 No. 2, November/December, 1989.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Stalking the Microcomputer", Legal Professional, Creative Computing, Vol. 7. No. 1, September/October, 1989.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Computer Wellness and a Prescription for When Disaster Strikes", Creative Computing, Legal Professional, Vol. 6 No. 6, July/August, 1989.

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Implementing New Technology in your Law Office While Developing Computer Fluency", Creative Computing, Legal Assistant Today, Vol. 6, No. 5, May/June, 1989.

Segall, Avram; Gurdak, John A.; Baldwin-LeCLair, Jack; Tayler, Marilyn, Computer Fundamentals for Legal Professionals - Instructor's Notes 2nd Ed., (Dallas: Pearson Publications, 1988).

Baldwin-LeClair, Jack, "Innovations Make LEXIS More Versatile and User Friendly", Legal Assistant Today, Vol. 6, No. 2., November/December, 1988.


Revised January 2007