Who am I? I’m a
librarian
Keep scrolling. There are six of me.
- librarianGet people what they need. Then fix the system so they need me less.
- tinkerIf the tool doesn’t exist, I build a clunky one, then a better one.
- leaderI start it myself. Then I find the people who make it real.
- creatorOpen textbooks, open data, open tools. Borrow them. Please.
- mentorNobody handed me the unwritten rules, so I wrote them down.
- advocateLatina, veteran, neurodivergent. I say so out loud so the next person can too.
Why Firebrand?
A crim law professor kept trying to get me to say I wanted the police catching criminals sooner. I never did. He called me a firebrand, and I kept it. The whole story, from 2018.
Release notes
What shipped lately.
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Open textbook
The Question Method of Legal Research
2026
Legal research as a chain of questions. Free, open, and yours to adopt.
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Interactive
Question Method companion modules
2026
Hands-on labs for all seventeen chapters: rank the authorities, run the citator, catch the fabricated citation.
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Tool
The Workbench
2026
The companion site for Law Practice in the Age of AI & Big Data: modules for every role a lawyer plays with AI, as user, evaluator, builder, and steward.
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Database
Supreme Court Indian Law Database
Launching 2026
With Keith Richotte. Every Supreme Court Indian law case and how each justice voted, searchable.
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Report
Building the Future of Law Libraries
2025, ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award 2026
Final report from the six national roundtables, and the roadmap for phase two.
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Handbooks
Law Library Fellows Program handbooks
2025–2026
Three open volumes, for administrators, fellows, and mentors, so any law library can start its own fellows program.