WHEN: 10/16
WHERE: Law School
WHY: Starting on
Friday, September 25, the Law School is offering a series of three workshops to
all 1L students. The workshops have short-term and long-term goals. The short
–term goals are to help students read legal materials more efficiently,
organize and analyze legal information more effectively and present their legal
analysis and conclusions more concisely.
Building these academic skills should lead to better performance as a
student as well as better preparation for the practice of law and for taking
bar exams in the future.
We strongly recommend that all 1L students attend one of the
workshops in each category: reading, organizing information and preparing for
exams. We have scheduled the workshops so that you can attend regularly
scheduled Friday classes and still participate in a workshop.
Here is the next workshop in the series of three workshops. Please save these dates and times.
WHAT, WHO:
Organizing legal information: On Friday, October 16,
Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz will conduct workshops on organizing legal
information at 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 in Room 2260. Professor Schwartz is the Associate Dean for
Faculty and Academic Development at Washburn University School of Law, and the author
of Expert Learning for Law Students.
His expertise focuses on law student learning. He is the author of two
books designed to help students in law school, on the bar exams and in
practice. Professor Schwartz presents
alternatives to outlining for students. He is also the co-author with Denise Riebe of Pass the Bar.
For more information: http://washburnlaw.edu/faculty/schwartz-michael.php.
Preparing for exams: On Friday, November 6, LaRasz
Moody, Assistant Dean for Academic Success Programs at Villanova Law School
will work with students at 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 in Room 2260. Dean Moody is a
2002 graduate of this law School and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the
University of Chicago. At UWLS she was a member of the Wisconsin Women Law
Journal and participated in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition.
For more information: http://www.law.vill.edu/academics/academicsuccessprograms/
Submitted by Ruth Robarts, Assistant Dean for Students and Academic Affairs on October 1, 2009
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