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By Jenn Bartick Indiana University— Robert H. McKinney School of Law Vice Chair, ABA Law Student Division j.bartick@me.com As we prepare to embark on a new chapter in our book of Life as a Law Student, I urge you to challenge yourself. For some, this may be chapter one and for others it may
By Nicole Israel Cindy Dinh, a 2L at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, intends to show that integration is everyone’s fight. “We want to promote an environment where everyone feels included and becomes self-aware of how their words and actions affect members of their community,” Dinh said. Dinh is
By Courtney Carroll. While many second-year law students are licking their wounds from their first year in law school, Kylie Oversen, a 2L at University of North Dakota School of Law, is preparing to accept her award as North Dakota Women’s Network Woman of the Year. The North Dakota Women’s Network presents
By Nicole Israel. Colin Saltry, a 3LE at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, won the 2014 International Association of LGBT Judges Writing Competition with his paper entitled “What’s (Who You) Love Got to do with It?” “Any time you can make a Tina Turner pun in a professional research
By Iris Gutiérrez Berríos Iris Gutiérrez Berríos, a 3L at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, is the Law Student Division’s Seventh Circuit lieutenant governor of communications. The ABA Law Student Division recently announced the election of three new Division delegates at the ABA Annual Meeting in Boston. The delegates are
When Michael Melcher entered the joint JD/MBA program at Stanford University, he had “no clear view” of what he wanted to do. But having worked in the US Foreign Service before law school, he was interested in public policy and international work. After graduating in 1994, he joined the securities practice
By Jeff B. Cohen Jeff B. Cohen is a partner at entertainment law firm Cohen Gardner LLP based in Beverly Hills, California. In 2013, he was named to Variety ’s Dealmakers Impact Report. He has been profiled by theHollywood Reporter, the ABA Journal, Chambers Associate, LawCrossing, and others. He regularly authors
By Kinnari M. Bhojani. When not juggling a full law school course load, Jonathan Chatham, a 2L at the University of Houston Law Center, spends time addressing the wellness needs of Houston’s homeless. Chatham has pledged to devote 200 hours toward improving access to health
Wise choices of law school courses can optimize grades and increase preparation for the bar exam and future legal practice.
A pressing issue in legal writing: We must—absolutely must—develop a short-form method for citing cases, even in a first reference to a case. Given where things stood 20 years ago—when virtually all legal writers stuffed their cumbersome citations mid-text and often mid-sentence—I’m delighted by how many courts have taken to
Are you making choices that will keep you competitive in the job market? Legal employers are calling for “practice-ready” graduates who can hit the ground running when it comes to performing on the job. The economics of practice disfavor past-used training structures where new attorneys tagged along to
Laura D’Angelo is smiling in the winners’ circle at the Kentucky Derby as the news cameras roll. Paul Levine is walking along the Venice Beach, California, boardwalk in shorts and sandals, talking to someone about a new book. Mary Grieco is at a private fashion show in Manhattan,
By Ed Finkel. Interviewing clients, meeting their families, filing affidavits, and attending hearings with supervising attorneys on various matters were all part of Katherine Klein’s hands-on educational experience. Klein spent her last two years at Northwestern University School of Law handling cases for the school’s
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