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Posted by Library
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04/11/2013 at 01:18 PM
In addition to the resources of the Office of Career Development, you can use LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law for job searching and career development. These are great services for researching attorneys, law firms and companies such as cases involved in and news stories about.
Bloomberg Law’s “Career Insights” contains advice, suggestions, and tips from practitioners on topics such as career options, interviews, networking, your job search, professional development, and summer employment. “Ask the Hiring Attorney” series of “Qs & As” are a must read before an...
Posted by David
Logan
04/09/2013 at 04:31 PM
Update: The Faculty Lounge has posted an updated blog that removed school funded positions from the "full-time, long-term, bar admission required" category. Roger Williams, like most law schools in our region, does not fund these positions, so those employment numbers did not change. However, Yale's employment rate changed to 77% and UMASS's changed to 23% in the "full-time, long-term, bar admission required" category. Here is the latest blog:http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2013/04/a-cleaner-ranking-of-schools-long-term-full-time-employment-minus-law-school-funded-jobs.html...
Posted by David
Logan
04/04/2013 at 02:53 PM
March 2013 was the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed every citizen a constitutional right to counsel in cases involving serious criminal allegations. Gideon is acknowledged as one of the most important decisions of the Supreme Court, and as lawyers, judges, and law students gathered at RWU Law for a program saluting Gideon, it also was an opportunity to mark the passing of Anthony Lewis, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the iconic book about the case, Gideon’s Trumpet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%27s_Trumpet
The program began with me saying a few...
Posted by David
Logan
04/02/2013 at 11:09 AM
One of the many terrific student groups at RWU Law is the Military Law Society (MilLaw), which recently was a prime example of how engaged students can take advantage of excellent networking opportunities, and yield amazing results. Here’s the story….
Last fall Justice Samuel Alito visited RWU, http://law.rwu.edu/blog/justice-alito%E2%80%99s-day-campus-v-2 and at one of the many social events 2L Tunde Adepegba struck up a conversation with Martha Ann Alito. It turns out that Mrs. Alito grew up in a military family, and she and Tunde, the President and Founder of MilLaw, had...
Posted by Library
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03/28/2013 at 02:52 PM
Our nation’s capital is a “happening” place! For those who like to keep abreast of the activity of the three branches of government or want to work in one of them, here are some resources for you.
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times contains news on “law, lobbying, politics, crime, courts, business and culture.” Check out this blog for its coverage of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments and decisions.
Roll Call “has been the source of news on Capitol Hill since 1955.” Useful for a writing project is news about federal policy by topical area.
SCOTUSblog is an amazing resource...
Posted by David
Logan
03/27/2013 at 01:49 PM
Last week saw the release of the latest edition of an empirical project that began in 2007, one that compares how frequently various law faculties place their scholarship in the top law reviews, and once again the results received favorable attention on leading blogs published by Brian Leiter (U of Chicago) http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2013/03/updated-study-of-per-capita-faculty-productivity.html and Paul Caron (Cincinnati) http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/03/publication-study.html.
As is usually the case, there was some shuffling in the list (with Cardozo and Florida...
Posted by David
Logan
03/25/2013 at 12:26 PM
Day 3 dawned bright and clear for the last leg of our Civil Rights pilgrimage to Alabama, ground zero for the struggle to win the right to vote for all Americans. Our goal: follow Rep. John Lewis across the same bridge where 48 years earlier Alabama police brutally attacked him and 600 peaceful marchers trying to bring national attention to the lack of voting rights for Black southerners.
On the bus, the anticipation of the annual “Bloody Sunday” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was palpable. Along the road from Montgomery, Betty Mae Sykes pointed out the desolate stretch of...
Posted by David
Logan
03/22/2013 at 09:57 AM
Alternative Spring Break (ASB) is a project of the Association for Public Interest Law and is completely student driven and organized. This year, student leaders Marcus Swift and Tracy Harper organized ten week-long law-related public service projects. Rather than relaxing during spring break this year, 39 students participated in public service projects at organizations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia.
The pro bono projects were diverse – ranging from working on capital defense cases to researching the Clean Water Act to...
Posted by Library
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03/21/2013 at 11:29 AM
Free to students up to six months after graduation, the Bloomberg Law service offers a wide-variety of primary legal materials and secondary resources. There is even a citator (like Shepard’s or KeyCite). Secondary sources on Bloomberg Law include those published by the American Bar Association, BNA (e.g. topical reports) and Practising Law Institute. Transactional law resources on Bloomberg include EDGAR and DealMaker documents and clauses, drafting guides and transactional treatises. Bloomberg Law also provides extensive coverage of court dockets and filings from courts...
Posted by David
Logan
03/14/2013 at 12:53 PM
Day 2 was spent in the Alabama capital of Montgomery, in many ways the most significant place in the Civil Rights Movement. This is where a courageous seamstress Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a public bus that kicked off the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which tens of thousands of ordinary citizens protest continuing segregation in public life. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/press-pahttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/27/us-usa-rosaparks-idUSBRE91Q18L20130227st/2013/02/04/remembering-rosa-parks-on-her-100th-birthday
It was in Montgomery where a young...