You are a 3L. Your last semester has just gotten started. It’s your lightest course load to date. You don’t even have to be on campus on Thursdays and Fridays! Life is pretty sweet. I would like to propose something that might be considered a little radical: Spend your extra time preparing for the bar. I know that you might …
Don’t miss invaluable networking opportunities over winter break
I recently listened to an American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division podcast about how law students can make connections with attorneys over Winter Break. The panelists’ tips and suggestions put a new spin on some well-worn, but effective principles of old-fashioned, face-to-face social networking. Finals at KU Law end tomorrow, and classes don’t resume again until Jan. 14. This time …
A Firefox plug-in for your legal writing? Score!
CiteGenie: Automagically copies text with correct citations from Westlaw, Lexis and other Web sites. One of the best parts about doing research electronically is you have the ability to cut and paste from your browser straight into your document. However, figuring out how to cite what you just pasted can be a bit of a hastle. By adding CiteGenie as …
KU Law Students for Reproductive Justice gears up at Green Hall
KU Law Students for Reproductive Justice is one of the newest law student groups on campus — and also one of the busiest! KU Law Students for Reproductive Justice is part of the only student-led, student-centered nationwide network of law students, professors and lawyers committed to fostering the next wave of legal experts for the reproductive justice movement. A lot …
IP attorneys stress networking, research and finding a niche
Sam Korte, an attorney from Garmin, and Elizabeth Tassi, from Stinson Morrison Hecker, took time out of their busy schedules recently to meet with the Intellectual Property Law Students Association to discuss how to land a job in the IP field. Both attorneys agreed on one major point: Get involved in order to build a network and strengthen your resume. …
Catching the Google Wave
I recently received an invitation to join Google Wave. I was very excited about it. After a short time of playing around, I was given a limited number of invitations to hand out so that my friends and peers could join in. It was then that I realized how few people actually know about Google Wave. So what is it? …