The KU Public Interest Law Society (PILS) will host its 8th annual Casino Night fundraiser from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, to benefit PILS and KU Endowment. This year’s event at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H., will have games, food, drinks and live music. It’s sure to be a good time. But in the excitement it is …
Law school survival tips from a recent graduate: Simplify your life and warn your loved ones
First-year boot camp has ended, and regular classes have begun. Many of you are still a bit dizzy from all of the new responsibilities that law school has thrust upon you. Fresh out of law school, the Wheat Law Library’s new Faculty Services Senior Researcher, Ashly Basgall, has a few tips to help keep you on track and at least …
1L Diaries: From journalist to law student in one week flat
May 29, 2009 It was a mere two weeks ago that I got accepted into law school. In the time since, I have had my first visit to Lawrence, been given a crash course in Lawyering and written more than a dozen briefs. It’s been a whirlwind — a Kansas tornado, if you will! Officially, I was wait-listed — hence …
Student Ambassadors squeeze social life between law school responsibilities
When we’re not busy shaping the future of KU Law by hand-selecting the next class of students (just kidding — the day we get any say over admissions decisions is the day I send Snooki and Pauly D their acceptance letters and scholarship offers, because how awesome would that be?), the KU Law Student Ambassadors really know how to cut …
Kansas Law Free Press aims to inform, inspire, entertain
The Kansas Law Free Press is a news publication written by students at KU Law. KLFP is about news things, big ideas, awkwardness, intellectual diversity, refinement, and getting to the point. It’s dedicated to informing, inspiring, and entertaining the students, faculty, and administration at KU Law as well as the community at large. KLFP was founded one year ago by …
Laser tag, anyone? Study break destinations for weary law students
Ah, finals! The time of the semester that at once fills me with anxiety and excitement returns again. With the 1Ls preparing for oral arguments, 2Ls in the midst of the heated battle for moot court supremacy — pitting such gladiators with the gift of gab as Jill “Hot Topic” Moenius against Benjamin “Golden Voice” Winters in the semifinal round …