This web-based secure financial aid portal will allow you to check the status of your financial aid application, review your financial aid eligibility, and accept or decline your awards once you have been awarded for the academic year., New law students, , please use myfinaid.rwu.edu to access the financial aid portal. Information on how to create a new user account has been e-mailed to you by the Financial Aid Office. If you have misplaced your login credentials, please e-mail the Financial Aid Office at gradfinaid@rwu.edu to request that the information be sent to you. New students will not have access to the financial aid portal through…, returning student, , in order to access the RWU Law financial aid portal, you must log in to Roger Central . Once you login, click on Financial Information (icon on left margin) and select Financial Aid. This will automatically bring you to the financial aid portal. For step-by-step instructions on how to use this system, please click here . If you have any questions, please contact the Financial Aid Office at…
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Black History Month is just one time of year but the spirit of what it means lives throughout the work we do here at RWU Law. RWU Law has a longstanding commitment to non-discrimination, diversity, and inclusion. Since June 2020, the RWU Law Library has been working to create a Black Lives Matter resource guide for our students and our community. This guide is a community effort and contains…
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NOTICE 02/23/21: SLIGHT DELAY!, We have just learned that tonight's webinar program, "Incitement, Insurrection, and Impeachment: Inside the Second Trump Impeachment Trial," will be slightly delayed., It will now begin at 6:15 PM, to accommodate Senator Whitehouse and Rep. Cicilline’s schedules. The Congressmen will be participating in a bicameral, bipartisan candlelit moment of silence this evening on the steps of the Capitol, to honor the 500,000 Americans who have died from Covid-19. * * * * * Next week, students at Roger Williams University School of Law will be privy to a rare inside view of former President…, Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know, (Oxford, 2018), Gerhardt is Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill. He also testified in the first Trump impeachment proceeding. RWU Law is the event’s host and primary sponsor; Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, and Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, N.C., are co-sponsors. RWU Law Dean…, ADDENDUM: A Note on Partisanship, Some members of our community have expressed concern that none of the three panelists at this event are Republicans, who could offer countervailing viewpoints. To clarify, this event's impressive lineup arose from the strong relationships that exist between RWU Law, as Rhode Island's only law school, and its (all-Democratic) Congressional delegation. Representative Cicilline used to be on our…
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NOTE: We have just learned that the House and Senate are holding a bicameral, bipartisan candle-lit moment of silence this evening - Tuesday, February 23, 2021, on the steps of the Capitol, honoring the 500,000 Americans who have died from Covid-19. As a result, this zoom webinar program, will be delayed to begin at 6:15 PM to accommodate Senator Whitehouse and Rep. Cicilline’s schedule. Thank you., President Donald J. Trump's second impeachment trial will affect our country for generations to come. This program will offer an up-close and in-depth view of a watershed moment in our history. As Rhode Island’s only law school, our relationship with the state’s congressional delegation is strong, allowing us to bring this valuable and enlightening conversation and learning opportunity to our…, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, (D-R.I.), one of the 100 Senators who had to weigh the evidence and decide whether to acquit or convict;, U.S. Congressman David N. Cicillin, e (D-R.I.), an impeachment case manager who drafted and presented the charges; and, Professor Michael J. Gerhardt, , special counsel to the impeachment trial’s presiding officer, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). A nationally recognized constitutional law expert and author of Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2018), Gerhardt is Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill. He also testified in the first Trump impeachment…
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Madonna, Cher, Nicole…. Three powerful women who go by one name. This week, the Legal Beagle sat down with Nicole Dyszlewski to find out a bit more about what makes her tick. , What is your title? , I am the Head of Reference, Instruction, & Engagement , Can you explain to our readers what you do using non-librarian terms? , I help people. I help people do research. I help people find resources. I teach people about the research process. And I try and make the experience of going to law school less difficult for all our students. , What is your favorite reading genre? , I have two faves. One is true crime. I got bit early by the true crime bug when I read the book , Helter Skelter, about the Manson family murders at a young age and I have been obsessed ever since. OBSESSED. My other fave is modern chic lit. , What part of your job is most satisfying?, I know a common answer among librarians is that they are most satisfied when a student “gets it”. You know, like the lightbulb moment? I think that is great, but I am most satisfied when the library is identified as a safe place. I appreciate when I get student emails that say, “My TA said I have to come and talk to the librarians because they know everything about citation” or “I need to talk…, What’s the most profound positive change you’ve seen in the library since you joined it?, I joined the library staff as a full-time employee a little over 6 years ago. Since that time, I have seen us innovate in several ways that have been profoundly positive. I would say that our relationships with student organizations, including moot court and law review, have transformed in my time here. These relationships have even grown and changed again during COVID. I am so grateful for…, We hear that you are a doggy mom. What's the name of your dog and what's the most adorable thing she does?, I have a mutt named Boaty McBoatface Dyszlewski. The cutest thing she does is snore gently. The least cute thing she has done is give an interview about my annoying habits . , Name something you dislike, but everyone else seems to love. , This is easy. Despite his multiple Grammy awards and chart-topping hits, I really don’t like the music of Bruno Mars. I profoundly dislike the music of Bruno Mars.
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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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