University of Kansas Law School Blog
Students Plan Sand Volleyball Tourney and Multicultural Potluck Picnic
On Sept. 24, the Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity is hosting its 2nd Annual KU Law Sand Volleyball Tournament in conjunction with a Multicultural Potluck Picnic.All law students will be invited to form volleyball teams to take on last year’s defending champion team from the Native American…
Singing the Praises of HeinOnline
I would like to introduce to you one of my favorite databases: HeinOnline.William S. Hein & Co. Inc. started 80 years ago as a preservation publisher. This means they would take long, out-of-print legal research material and reprint it in either hard copies or microfilm/fiche format. In the…
E-mail Etiquette for Law Students, Lawyers
Most professionals I know, and most students in professional school for that matter, spend a good deal of time each day composing e-mails. While some of these e-mails undoubtedly address personal matters, business matters generate lots of electronic traffic.Cover letters and resumes are the…
Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Law School
The KU Law chapter of Phi Alpha Delta presented a current student's perspective on the "Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Law School" to prospective law students in KU's PAD Pre-Law Chapter on Sept. 8. Here are their tips: On the first day of law school, everyone is on an even playing field,…
A Law Librarian's Journey into the Twittersphere
Do you use Twitter? "What's all this nonsense about Twitter? It's like Facebook, right? But you only do status updates? So you post things like, 'I'm eating breakfast. I'm driving in my car.' I don't want people to know what I'm doing all the time! PASS!" I can't tell you how many…
Student Organizations Foster Engagement
One of my favorite aspects of my role as the associate dean for student affairs is working with our student organizations.Our student groups plan symposia, host speakers, organize community service events and charitable fundraisers, and coordinate social events. Many of these events have become…
Law Librarian Ranks Top 10 iPhone Apps for Law Students
I realize that I am a latecomer to this craze. Like most Apple products, I was content to admire from afar. However, this past July, I decided to join the ranks of the uber-cool and purchase myself the geek's most powerful tool in the arsenal of geekdom: the iPhone. It did not take me long to…
Employment Hope, Despite Cooling in On-Campus Recruiting
The New York Times ran an article on Tuesday titled “Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools.” It was reported that at many top tier law schools, on-campus interviews are down by a third to a half compared with a year ago. Far fewer law firms are interviewing on campus, and…
Looking Back: A 1L Perspective on Career Planning
The newest batch of KU Law Student Ambassadors will be in place by mid-September and will begin contributing to the blog each Wednesday. Until then, we're dipping into the archives of blog entries from Ambassadors in past years. These have never been published because we didn't get our blog off the…
Wheat Law librarians 'Are Like Lawyers Squared'
I suppose the Wheat Law Library's first blog should be a bit of a "how do you do." You know...get to know the library and the librarians. But all of that information can be found on our Web page. Instead, I would like to share with you what a law librarian is and what we do. Just looking at…