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Marketing Law Libraries: Strategies And Techniques In The Digital Age, Kristin Cheney
Marketing Law Libraries: Strategies And Techniques In The Digital Age, Kristin Cheney
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Marketing is no longer a sporadic activity undertaken on an ad hoc basis, but rather has become an integral component of every library’s day-to-day operations. This article provides an overview of basic marketing principles and then examines effective marketing strategies and promotional techniques in an academic environment. While viewed within the context of the law school setting, a majority of the marketing activities discussed are equally applicable in other types of law libraries.
Urban Law School Graduates In Large Law Firms, David Wilkins, Ronit Dinovitzer, Rishi Batra
Urban Law School Graduates In Large Law Firms, David Wilkins, Ronit Dinovitzer, Rishi Batra
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Two major trends have dominated the American legal profession in recent years. First, "the legal profession has seen a striking growth in the largest firms during the latter part of the last century." In 1960, Shearman Sterling & Wright (now called Shearman & Sterling) was the largest firm in the country - and therefore the world. It had 125 lawyers. By the close of the century, there were more than 250 firms larger than Shearman & Sterling had been forty years before, with the largest ten topping the scales at 1000 lawyers or more. Today, in order to make the …
Using Global Law To Teach Domestic Advocacy, John B. Mitchell
Using Global Law To Teach Domestic Advocacy, John B. Mitchell
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There is currently a movement to integrate so-called global law into the law school curriculum. This essay, Using Global Law to Teach Domestic Advocacy, briefly explores this movement and its underlying rationales, and then focuses on using foreign procedural law in a traditional American trial advocacy course, principally to improve the students' domestic advocacy skills. Believing that such concepts are best understood in the concrete, Professor MitchellI has created a set of imaginary exercises to a trial advocacy class in which the instructor swaps various features of the Scotch Criminal Justice system (no opening statement, nor voir dire, three verdicts) …