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Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009), Sonia Green, Maureen Kordesh, Julie Spanbauer
Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009), Sonia Green, Maureen Kordesh, Julie Spanbauer
Sonia Bychkov Green
No abstract provided.
Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009), Sonia Green, Maureen Kordesh, Julie Spanbauer
Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009), Sonia Green, Maureen Kordesh, Julie Spanbauer
Maureen Straub Kordesh
No abstract provided.
Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009), Sonia Green, Maureen Kordesh, Julie Spanbauer
Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009), Sonia Green, Maureen Kordesh, Julie Spanbauer
Julie M. Spanbauer
No abstract provided.
Yes We Can, Pass The Bar. University Of The District Of Columbia, David A. Clarke School Of Law Bar Passage Initiatives And Bar Pass Rates - From The Titanic To The Queen Mary, Derek Alphran, Tanya Washington, Vincent Eagan
Yes We Can, Pass The Bar. University Of The District Of Columbia, David A. Clarke School Of Law Bar Passage Initiatives And Bar Pass Rates - From The Titanic To The Queen Mary, Derek Alphran, Tanya Washington, Vincent Eagan
Tanya Monique Washington
No abstract provided.
Choosing The Top Candidate: Best Practices In Academic Law Library Hiring, Ronald Wheeler, Nancy Johnson, Terrance Manion
Choosing The Top Candidate: Best Practices In Academic Law Library Hiring, Ronald Wheeler, Nancy Johnson, Terrance Manion
Terrance K Manion
The authors discuss successful hiring practices in academic law libraries. Their discussion details each step of the hiring process, from vacancy to offer, and explores strategies for implementing the steps successfully. The processes examined include: reviewing the vacancy, assessing the library needs, forming an effective search committee, writing a winning job description, checking references, conducting an interview, and making an offer. The authors assert that a successful hire will influence every aspect of your library and, as such, a library needs to devote considerable attention and resources to librarian searches.
Law And Negotiation: Necessary Partners Or Strange Bedfellows?, Nancy Schultz
Law And Negotiation: Necessary Partners Or Strange Bedfellows?, Nancy Schultz
Nancy Schultz
To what degree does legal authority dictate the outcomes of negotiations? Scholars have discussed the issue, and law students argue about it in their negotiation classes. A survey of practicing lawyers reveals that knowing the law is an important part of the preparation for negotiation, but that legal authority is not the primary determinant of negotiated outcomes in practice. Financial constraints, bargaining power, and negotiating skill are all reported as having a greater effect on negotiated outcomes than the law.
One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum, Sherri Keene
Sherri Keene
Legal writing is more than an isolated practical skill or a law school course; it is a valuable tool for broadening and deepening one’s knowledge and understanding of the law. If experienced legal professionals, both professors and practitioners alike, take a hard look back at their careers, many will no doubt remember how their work on significant legal writing projects advanced their own knowledge of the law and enhanced their professional competence. Legal writing practice helps the writer to gain expertise in a number of ways: first, the act of writing itself promotes learning; second, close work on legal writing …
Civility: Multi-Tiered Strategies For Litigation Ethics, Judith Mcmorrow
Civility: Multi-Tiered Strategies For Litigation Ethics, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Ethical Issues In Labor Arbitration, Judith Mcmorrow
Ethical Issues In Labor Arbitration, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
This 90 minute presentation was designed to serve as Continuing Legal Education program for lawyers in the New England area. The written materials included a prior publication (Advocate as Witness).
Lawyer Discipline In China, Judith Mcmorrow
In Defense Of The Business Of Law, Judith Mcmorrow
In Defense Of The Business Of Law, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Conference Chair & Introductory Remarks, Aba Professional Responsibility Conference, Judith Mcmorrow
Conference Chair & Introductory Remarks, Aba Professional Responsibility Conference, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
I was chair of the Planning Committee for this conference, which draws about 400 scholars, regulators and practitioners. My brief opening remarks set the stage for the opening panel which I had organized on Watergate: 40 Years and Not Yet History (John Dean, White House Counsel under Pres. Nixon, Beth Nolan, White House Counsel under Pres. Clinton, Richard Painter, Asst White House Counsel for Ethics under George G.W. Bush).
Global Lawyering And Legal Education, Judith Mcmorrow
Global Lawyering And Legal Education, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of The Business Of Law, Judith Mcmorrow
In Defense Of The Business Of Law, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Asp Without Stigma: Serving Our Diverse Populations: Introductory And Conference Summary Comments, Elisabeth Keller
Asp Without Stigma: Serving Our Diverse Populations: Introductory And Conference Summary Comments, Elisabeth Keller
Elisabeth Keller
No abstract provided.
Law School As A Path To Politics And Public Service, Mary Sue Backus
Law School As A Path To Politics And Public Service, Mary Sue Backus
Mary Sue Backus
No abstract provided.
Legal Ethics In China: Reflections On The Formation Of Professional Identity, Judith Mcmorrow
Legal Ethics In China: Reflections On The Formation Of Professional Identity, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
The Chinese legal profession has grown rapidly in the last 30 years. This talk discussed the challenge of creating norms of attorney conduct (legal ethics) in a fragile and young legal system. The second part of the talk used ongoing research on the formation of professional identity.
Conference Co-Organizer And Moderator, What Legal Employers Want... And Really Need, Elisabeth Keller
Conference Co-Organizer And Moderator, What Legal Employers Want... And Really Need, Elisabeth Keller
Elisabeth Keller
Planned, organized, and moderated panel at conference of over 50 law faculty and legal employers to address the question of what makes a lawyer "practice-ready" and how the legal academy and legal employers should allocate this responsibility.
Nuts And Bolts Of Teaching--Using A Range Of Teaching Methodologies In The Classroom, Jane Gionfriddo
Nuts And Bolts Of Teaching--Using A Range Of Teaching Methodologies In The Classroom, Jane Gionfriddo
Jane Kent Gionfriddo
No abstract provided.
Lessons From China, Judith Mcmorrow
Legal Ethics In China, Judith Mcmorrow
Characteristics Of A Mature Legal Writing Program, Elisabeth Keller
Characteristics Of A Mature Legal Writing Program, Elisabeth Keller
Elisabeth Keller
As a legal writing program matures, a culture of collaboration can foster innovation and excellence more effectively than a director-led program.
Member Of The “Law Professor Misconduct” Panel, Judith Mcmorrow
Member Of The “Law Professor Misconduct” Panel, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Organized And Moderated The “Ethics And Class Action Reform” Panel, Judith Mcmorrow
Organized And Moderated The “Ethics And Class Action Reform” Panel, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Appointment: President-Elect Of The Association Of American Law Schools Section On Professional Responsibility, Judith Mcmorrow
Appointment: President-Elect Of The Association Of American Law Schools Section On Professional Responsibility, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
The Federal Law Of Attorney Conduct, Judith Mcmorrow
The Federal Law Of Attorney Conduct, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Ethical Developments, Judith Mcmorrow
Appointment: Committee On Judicial Ethics Of The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judith Mcmorrow
Appointment: Committee On Judicial Ethics Of The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
Professional Ethics Lessons From Enron, Judith Mcmorrow
Professional Ethics Lessons From Enron, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Shame In Regulating Attorney Conduct, Judith Mcmorrow
The Role Of Shame In Regulating Attorney Conduct, Judith Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
No abstract provided.