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Summer Judicial Internship with Judge Dennis Curran
Posted by David Logan
09/07/2010 at 10:31 AM
The summer proved to be a learning experience for three RWU Law students, Stephen Deering '11, Thomas Hajj '11, and Raquel Thomas '12, as they completed judicial internships with Judge Dennis Curran of the Massachusetts Superior Court.   The students assisted the judge with the management of the civil trial session, helped draft judicial opinions, and worked on an article on court management.  The students had the unique opportunity of  having lunch every Friday with the judge, where they discussed a broad array of trial tactics including cross-...
Orientation 2010
Posted by William Wray
09/07/2010 at 10:17 AM
Thanks to the professors, administrators, and personnel for their time and dedication in planning and flawlessly executing orientation, complete with a few local legal stars to kick things off. Though (as a certain professor is wont to say) nothing can truly prepare "sloppy undergraduates" for the study of law, orientation provided the much-needed caveat "Hold your breath!' before we dove headfirst into classes. Without orientation the dive may well have been more of a belly flop. We're also obliged to the weather for minimizing distractions, I suppose. While unseasonably chilly temperatures...
Lawyers Must Write Clearly and Concisely
Posted by Writing Specialist Blog
09/02/2010 at 02:39 PM
"Writing" Down the House Michele Norris of NPR recently interviewed novelist Richard North Patterson.　 Before becoming a published novelist, he had been a lawyer.　 When asked, by Norris, why so many lawyers become writers, Mr. Patterson responded, in part, that lawyers arrange messy facts into pleasing narratives.　 He stressed that lawyers must write clearly and concisely.　 Ms. Norris pushed back by suggesting that legal writing doesn’t resemble English.　 In response, Mr. Patterson said that such writing is "bad legal writing." Your Legal Methods professors will love hearing that. ...
Alumni Golf Tournament a Huge Success
Posted by David Logan
09/02/2010 at 10:26 AM
The weather was perfect for the 11th RWU Law Alumni Association Golf Tournament (thankfully it was not scheduled for the rainy and cold following day), and more than 100 folks knocked little white balls around the Cranston Country Club for a good cause: every dollar raised goes to deserving 2Ls who display academic excellence. As usual, alum Anthony Leone '97 oversaw the entire effort, ably assisted this year by alums Sally McDonald '09 (Anthony’s Co-Chair), plus Committee Members Adam Resmini '09, Cindy Salazar (3L) and Nick Pereira (3L). Chelsie Horne did a magnificent job keeping the...
Hip Hop Sonnet
Posted by Writing Specialist Blog
09/01/2010 at 10:21 AM
"Writing" Down the House How about a little mid-week poetry to shake up your neurons? I wrote this poem in April for a contest sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The prompt was to write a poem based on/in response to/or just tangentially related to a poem by John Keats called "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."  Hip Hop Homer: After Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”   Yo, yo Homer. He’s a freakin’ home boy. Never done much trippin’. ‘Cept when he was sippin’ MaiTais at the local. Still, he ain’t no yokel. Bounces in the realms of gold. Shit. ...
'Tis the Season: The Rhode Island Statewide Primary
Posted by Library Blog
09/01/2010 at 12:00 AM
Mark your calendars for September 14 - the day on which the statewide primary in Rhode Island will be held.  For information on candidates and voting procedures, check out the Rhode Island Board of Elections' website!