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What do you think about this? Good idea? Bad idea?

Posted on September 10, 2008
Today, The New York Law Journal had an interesting article about law schools requiring Bar Prep courses as part of their curriculum. Excerpts from the article are below. What do you think about the idea? (Please feel free to post a comment.) More Schools Offer Bar Prep Courses: Some faculty consider making exam prep classes a requirementBy Leigh JonesDuring the first few sessions of "Advanced Analytical Skills" that William Doherty took at Pace Law School, he and his classmates ribbed each other about being in a remedial course...

Internet Dos and Don'ts

Posted on September 04, 2008
The September 2008 issue of the NALP bulletin contains an interesting article entitled E-Professionalism Dos and Don'ts by Tracy Evans (Director of Career Services at Louisiana State University Law Center) and Amy Gerwitz (Associate Director, Alumni Counseling and Relations, Pace University School of Law)...

Any Future Trademark Practitioners Out There?

Posted on August 29, 2008
The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a not-for-profit membership association of more than 5,500 trademark owners and professionals, from more than 190 countries, dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective national and international commerce...

Suffolk County Women's Bar Association Event

Posted on August 28, 2008
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Interested in Public Defender Work?

Posted on August 27, 2008
PSLawNet, that great resource of public interest and government opportunities and organizations, has created a new Public Defender Handbook for students looking for public defender internships and post-graduate jobs. You can download the Handbook here...

Alumni Mentor Program

Posted on August 27, 2008
The Office of Alumni Relations and the Career Services Office are co-sponsoring an Alumni Mentor Program, designed to connect students with alumni mentors in specific practice areas. Students fill out a short application, designating their three top practice areas and geographical preferences, and they will be paired with alumni to talk about the real world of legal practice...

New Graduates: Young Lawyers Connect

Posted on August 26, 2008
The September 2008 issue of the New York City Bar Association newsletter for new attorneys, Young Lawyers Connect, contains a wealth of interesting information, tips, and invitations to networking events. One of the newsletter's articles is entitled Job Hunting in a Down Market, by Susan Manch...

Department of Justice Application Deadline

Posted on August 26, 2008
A reminder!!! Time is short!!!!!The Department of Justice application deadline for both the Attorney General's Honors Program (post-graduate) and the Summer Law Intern Program is September 2, 2008. Details on the Honors Program application process can be found here...

NYC Public Service Career Reception

Posted on August 25, 2008
Public Service Career ReceptionThursday, August 28, 2008, 6:00-8:30 p.m. NYC Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY (between 5th & 6th Avenue). All law students, including first-year students, are invited to attend this amazing career fair event at the New York City Bar Association to meet and mingle with dozens and dozens of public interest and government employers as they try to recruit you to work for them...

The Gould Law Library is Blogging!

Posted on August 21, 2008
The blogosphere just got a little bit larger with the recent introduction of the Touro Law Center's Gould Law Library blog. The blog offers students a quick-start site for helpful research and writing links and also interesting posts concerning information that will make your life a little bit easier...

Overloaded with Student Debt?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Touro Law Center Professor Meredith Miller has a blog entitled The Slippery Slope, a regular podcast serious on interesting areas in the law. Professor Miller's most recent podcast concerns federal legislation that is meant to help with student loan debt load...

First-Year Orientation Public Service Project

Posted on August 19, 2008
Every year, a hardcore group of first-year students (and a few faculty members) volunteer for a public service project during orientation week. This year, students pitched in to do some preservation work on historic buildings owned by the Central Islip Civic Council...

Interested in International Law?

Posted on August 19, 2008
A law student who is seriously interested in international law should join ASIL, the American Society of International Law. ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950. ASIL holds Category II Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies...

Looking for a Topic for a Research Paper or Writing Competition?

Posted on August 18, 2008
ACS ResearchLink is an innovative on-line resource for the legal community. The project leverages previously untapped resources to generate and share new ideas about important legal issues, while engaging the next generation of lawyers in addressing vital law and policy issues that will shape the future of our country...

"The Social Network as a Career Safety Net"

Posted on August 14, 2008
On August 13, 2008, the New York Times published an article by Sarah Jane Tribble entitled "The Social Network as a Career Safety Net," in which Ms. Tribble discusses how important social networking sites like LinkedIn can be in the job search process...

"100 Tips and Resources to be a Happy, Successful Lawyer"

Posted on August 12, 2008
JobProfiles.org is a website which provides a multitude of job descriptions for various career paths and what to expect from each. On August 11, Job Profiles posted an article by Laura Milligan entitled 100 Tips and Resources to be a Happy, Successful Lawyer...

New Bar Review Course on the Market

Posted on August 07, 2008
The online ABA Journal recently reported this: Kaplan Offers ?Full-Service Bar Review? in Three StatesPosted Aug 6, 2008, 01:01 pm CDTBy Debra Cassens WeissA company that provides bar review courses for the multistate exam will offer state-specific bar review courses in three states...

National Security Program

Posted on August 05, 2008
ABA Annual Meeting Program in National Security Law Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security The first 50 attendees receive an advance copy of "Careers in National Security Law", soon to be available through the ABA bookstore...

Postgraduate Fellowships: Information and Resources

Posted on August 05, 2008
Postgraduate public interest fellowships enable recent graduates to secure entry level positions with nonprofit organizations, government entities, and educational institutions. Typically, fellowships are term-limited opportunities (one to two years) designed to give a recent law graduate or junior attorney experience in public interest practice...

CSO Programs for Fall 2008

Posted on August 05, 2008
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Loan Forgiveness Legislation

Posted on August 01, 2008
Last night, both houses of Congress approved the Higher Education Reauthorization and College Opportunity Act of 2008, which includes four new loan forgiveness and repayment programs that benefit public interest lawyers:The John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive ActProviding $10,000 per year in exchange for a one time renewable three-year commitment for state and local prosecutors and public defenders...

Anonymous Posts Might Not Be As Anonymous as You Think

Posted on July 31, 2008
On July 30, Wired posted an article by Ryan Singel entitled Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls, Opens Pandora's Box, about how someone, presumably a law student, posted a particularly offensive comment on a website thinking it was anonymous...

ABA Journal Reports Possible Implosion of "Cravath System" of Big Firm Hiring

Posted on July 29, 2008
On July 22, the ABA Journal website had an interesting article, by Debra Cassens Weiss, about the pressures large law firms are experiencing and the disparities among law school graduate salaries. For the full article, go here."A chart showing the salaries of 2006 law graduates illustrates a striking finding: The bulk of new lawyers are almost evenly divided into the haves and the have-nots...

Tenth Annual National Law Students Workers' Rights Conference

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Peggy Browning Fund is a nonprofit corporation established in memory of Margaret A. Browning, a prominent labor attorney and member of the National Labor Relations Board. President Clinton appointed Peggy to the NLRB in 1994, and she served in that position until her death in February, 1997...

Young Lawyers Connect

Posted on July 23, 2008
The New York City Bar Association has created Young Lawyers Connect in response to the challenges of being a busy young attorney or law student, be it through age or professional experience. Join them September-June at First Thursdays, a new series of events to develop and broaden the professional and personal networks of law students and new lawyers...

Legal Services of New Jersey Hit Hard by Economic Downturn:Must Raise $9 Million to Avoid Cuts in Staff and Services

Posted on July 18, 2008
In the July 10, 2008 issues of The Star-Ledger, Kate Coscarelli reports: "The primary funding source for Legal Services of New Jersey has dropped at a more precipitous rate than anticipated, and it is already projecting a $21.5 million shortfall for the 2009 fiscal year ...

Earrings for Male Lawyers May Be ?Fraught With Peril,? Career Adviser Says

Posted on July 17, 2008
This news story, by Debra Cassens Weiss, came in over the ABA Journal Law News Now website:Should male lawyers and law students in courthouses refrain from wearing earrings? A career adviser from the University of Minnesota Law School is advising caution...

Trans Lawyer / Law Student Summer Networking Event

Posted on July 17, 2008
The Transgender Committee of LeGaL is hosting a law student /lawyer summer networking event! Join them from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, August 12th, in room 410 of the LGBT Community Center in New York City (208 W. 13th Street). Wheelchair accessible...

NEBLSA Job Fair

Posted on July 16, 2008
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The Slippery Slope.com: A Podcast Series by Professor Meredith Miller

Posted on July 15, 2008
Professor Meredith Miller has created a blog/podcast server entitled theslipperyslope.com. Here is a description of the project from Professor Miller's website:Welcome to The Slippery Slope: A Legal Variety Podcast. What is a "legal variety podcast"? It is an opportunity to talk to interesting people about interesting things related to the law...

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