Campus Tour , We are excited to invite, Admitted Students, to visit campus!, Schedule your tour today, . This table shows in-person event dates and registration links Dates for In-Person Events with RWU Law Registration Links, March 24, 2025, @11am, Accepted Students Day, Hear from a panel of current students, sit in on a mock class, and network with RWU Law faculty, staff, and each other., April 11, 2025, @11am, Accepted Students Day, Hear from a panel of current students, sit in on a mock class, and network with RWU Law faculty, staff, and each other., May 12, 2025, Session 1 @11am Session 2 @12pm, Meet and Greet Session 1 @11am, Meet and Greet Session 2 @12pm, Choose a tour time and join a mixer with current students, faculty, and staff., June 13, 2025, @10am, How to Succeed in Law School Presentation & Summer BBQ, Hear from a panel of students, faculty, and staff to learn how to prepare for and be successful in law school. Continue to mingle with your future colleagues and community members at a BBQ directly following the presentation., Meet with the Admissions Team, Members of our Admissions Team are available to answer all of your questions about RWU Law. We have scheduled, Virtual Open Hours, throughout the spring and summer, listed below. If you prefer an individual meeting, we encourage you to email us at, lawadmissions@rwu.edu, . April 29, 2025 @ 3pm, ET J une 25, 2025 @ 5pm, ET July 16, 2025 @ 3pm, ET, Speak with Current Students, Our, Student Ambassadors, are available to answer your questions about what it's really like to be in law school. We encourage you to join one of our, Virtual Student Ambassador Chats, listed below or reach out to them directly. March 18, 2025 @11am, ET April 15, 2025 @11am, ET
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Adobe’s products are ubiquitous in the business and legal landscape. While most people will recognize Adobe Acrobat DC as the leading product for creating and editing pdf files, some may find it surprising that it has a few functions of specific interest to the legal community. Outlined below are some of those functions along with quick directions on how to use them. Don't have Adobe Acrobat DC…, Redaction, To avoid what happened to Paul Manafort's attorneys who ‘redacted’ their documents by placing a black bar over text in 2019 (it didn’t work!), use the redaction tool to obliterate text within a pdf. Open your document, and then, Tools, >, Redact, > Select the text you wish to redact, which will then appear highlighted in a red box > click, Appl, y > click, OK, at the redaction warning. Text selected for redaction Acrobat will then create a new pdf with the redacted information completely removed from the document. Redacted text , Bates Numbering, This feature adds common pagination to a series of pdf documents, a requirement for filing evidentiary documents in many jurisdictions. Place all the pdfs to which you want to apply Bates Numbers in the same folder > Open Acrobat without opening a document >, Tools, >, Stamp, >, Bates Numbering, > click, Add, in the dropdown menu. “Drag and drop” the files you wish to include and arrange as desired. You may also click, output options, to modify output filenames. Next, click, OK, to view the Add Header and Footer menu. Documents ready for Bates numbering The Header and Footer menu allows you to place the Bates numbers on a desired spot on the page. For example, in the image below, Bates numbers will be added to the bottom (aka Footer) center of each page. Once you’ve modified the Header and Footer options, click, OK, to add the Bates numbers. Bates numbering window for Header and Footer option, “E-Discovery”, While there are many exciting (and expensive) AI offerings for E-Discovery, Acrobat Pro DC includes a way for the user to search multiple pdf documents with a single search, a rudimentary e-discovery option. Place all the pdfs you want to include in the search in the same folder. Open Acrobat >, Edit menu, >, Advanced Search, > select the, All PDF Documents, in radio button > browse the files and select the folder containing the documents > Click, Search, . This will give you results for each instance of your search terms in any pdf in the folder. Search results from documents in a folder , Learn More, To learn more about these and other Acrobat features, visit LinkedIn Learning . Log in with your University credentials and search “Adobe Acrobat” to view all the available courses.
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Meet attorneys from Rhode Island Legal Services and learn about the legal issues they work on and the important client work they do. The link for this program can be found on Symplicity.
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Taking Our Space: Women of Color and Antiracism in Legal Academia March 5, 2021, 12:30 to 2 pm – via Zoom Webinar, Kimberly Mutcherson, co-dean at Rutgers Law School, will be joined by law school faculty from around the country during this free event. In a virtual roundtable, panelists will focus on women of color in legal academia and the importance of their voices in creating law schools that live out their claims of being committed to antiracism. , Please register to attend
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This special presentation will feature a conversation with RWU alumna Elizabeth Ortiz ’07 L’10, who is the first Latina judge appointed to the Rhode Island Family Court. Ortiz will talk about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pioneering judicial career and reflect on her own groundbreaking career. Launch Meeting
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Coming off of a year-long hiatus due to the pandemic, the RWU Law Diversity Symposium offers a unique opportunity for students in high school, college, graduate school, law school, and beyond to connect with the legal field in Rhode Island. While this year’s program will be virtual, we have taken steps to ensure that the symposium will still provide excellent networking opportunities with the…, This event is made possible by the generosity of sponsor, Nixon Peabody, ., Nixon Peabody
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Benefits, Law Review membership provides the unique opportunity for law students to work on a student-run law journal. All work published in the Law Review is selected and edited by its student members. Additionally, all Law Review members are required to compose original works of legal scholarship, some of which are selected for publication in the Law Review. Thus, membership provides the distinctive…, Eligibility Requirements, Students in good academic standing are qualified to participate in the Law Review writing competition upon completion of twenty-nine academic credits, generally at the end of their first academic year. All students who participate in the writing competition are considered for Law Review membership., Selection Criteria, Selection decisions are based equally on (1) performance in the writing competition and (2) grade point average. There are no automatic invitations based on grades. Therefore, all students interested in Law Review membership must participate in the writing competition., Writing Competition, The annual writing competition is administered immediately following the Spring final examination period. The competition usually calls for participants to write a law review-type article based on provided materials. All materials necessary to complete the assignment are supplied; no additional research is required or allowed. Writing competition submissions are anonymous and collaboration is not…, Continued Membership Requirements, All members are expected to complete assignments in a timely manner and fulfill responsibilities described in the bylaws. Staff member responsibilities include (1) producing a Note or Comment of publishable quality, (2) Bluebooking and editing articles selected for publication, (3) producing a Rhode Island Survey of publishable quality, and (4) Bluebooking and editing a Rhode Island Survey.
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The , Law Review, publishes three issues throughout the academic year. The Winter issue is devoted to topics with a national focus. The Spring issue revolves around topics germane to the Rhode Island legal landscape, including a survey of new Rhode Island law, and includes student reviews of recent legislative enactments, as well as an analysis of significant Rhode Island Supreme Court opinions. As the only law…, Law Review, is uniquely qualified to publish scholarship in this field. Additionally, each year the , Law Review, publishes an issue featuring articles from academic symposia at the Law School. Our current and past issues can be viewed online and downloaded in pdf form, hosted on the Roger Williams University digital repository. You can also find copies of our editions on HeinOnline . Hard copies of past issues of the Roger Williams University Law Review are available for $15 per issue. Inquiries should…
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CALL FOR CO-AUTHORSHIP!, The Roger Williams University Law Review invites co-authorship submissions for their Justice for All Edition! The phrase “Justice for All” is a foundational principle of American law, but the term is oftenfiction. The legal system regularly excludes people for reasons that have nothing to do with the merits of their case, and legal actors regularly work to uphold these exclusions rather than…, Submitting, The Roger Williams University Law Review accepts unsolicited manuscripts and letters. Submissions are normally accepted on a rolling basis., Formatting, All manuscripts must be typewritten, double-spaced, and on 8″ x 11″ paper; footnotes should conform with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020), copyright by the Columbia, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania Law Reviews and the Yale Law Journal., Editing, Although the Law Review reserves the right to edit all manuscripts and letters, it is the goal of the Law Review to preserve the individuality of each author’s work. The Law Review edits articles for spelling, grammar, citation form, and other technical matters. Neither the author’s writing style nor the substantive article structure is revised without the express consent of the author.…, If you have any inquiries, please contact us .
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Subscription prices are as follows:, Yearly Subscription (United States): $28.50 Yearly Subscriptions (International): $33.00 Rhode Island Edition Only: $15.00 Symposium Edition Only: $15.00 Single Issue: $15.00 If you are interested in subscribing to the , Roger Williams University Law Review, , please contact us at lawreview@g.rwu.edu ., Additional Information: , The , Roger Williams University Law Review , is published three times a year. The Winter publication includes articles, notes, and comments devoted to legal issues on the national level. The Spring publication is the Rhode Island Edition of the , Law Review, and focuses solely on Rhode Island legal issues. The edition is published in May of each year to commemorate Rhode Island’s independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776. The Rhode Island Edition contains articles written by accomplished practitioners and scholars who are well versed on the legal issues affecting Rhode Island, as well as student notes and comments written by the Roger…, symposia, directed by the Law School faculty. The topic varies from year to year.
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