ALL STUDENTS
Student Services hours of operation:
7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday
7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday

After-Hours Services
If a student needs to retrieve something from Student Services or the copy room after hours, he or she should inform Monica Kimbrell or Falethia Hawthorne in Student Services and then they will place the item in the student's mailbox.

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ALL STUDENTS

Office Hours and Individual Services Provided

The Career Services Office is located in Room 113 and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office will expand our hours to remain open until 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. In addition, individual appointments can be scheduled when the office is not open. Mary Pat McInnis, Anne Hensley and Jon Baris are available for individual consultations to assist students in all aspects of the career development process, including resume and cover letter review, interviewing tips and general job search strategies. Anne Hensley is also a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri and can help with personal issues as well as consultation with career assessments, which include the Strong Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. We encourage all students to meet with us. Do not hesitate to make an appointment or stop by the Career Services Office.

3L STUDENT INFORMATION
Missouri Bar Ethics and Professionalism CLE Program for 3Ls

Tuesday, March 24
Noon to 3 p.m., Room 303
The School of Law will host an Ethics and Professionalism program for graduating third-year students. This free program qualifies for 3 hours of Missouri Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. Missouri Supreme Court Rules require that all lawyers admitted to the Missouri Bar must complete at least 3 hours of CLE devoted exclusively to professionalism, legal or judicial ethics or malpractice prevention within one year prior to or after the lawyer’s date of admission to the Bar.

Attendance is not limited to students planning to take the Missouri Bar. All third-year students are strongly encouraged to attend this FREE program. Lunch will be provided.

For students who are unable to attend on March 24, there will be a video replay of the program on Saturday, April 4, from 9 to 11:50 a.m.

For more information or if you have questions, contact Jon Baris at 314-977-3675 or jbaris@slu.edu
Registration forms are available in the Career Services Office and should be submitted to Career Services by Friday, March 20.

Career Services Thursday @ Noon Programming

March 19
How to Approach Career Development in the St. Louis Market featuring Patrick I. Chavez, Room 303

Dates and Deadlines

Institute for Justice Opportunities
Based in Arlington, Va., the Institute for Justice (IJ) is the nation's premier libertarian public interest law firm. The Institute litigates in state and federal courts to restore constitutional limits to the power of government, specializing in economic liberty, private property rights, school choice, and freedom of speech. IJ is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for its summer programs.

Summer clerkships - Summer clerks participate in IJ's fast-paced litigation docket, including legal research, brief writing, client interviewing, and op-ed writing. Summer clerkships are available at IJ's headquarters as well as at its state chapters in Arizona, Minnesota, Texas and Washington.

Annual law student conference - This weekend-long conference gives law students a crash course in how public interest law is practiced the IJ Way.  A "must-attend" event for law students interested in fighting for liberty throughout their careers, conference topics include IJ's four litigation pillars, constitutional theory, media skills, and public interest law tactics.  Next summer's conference will be held July 23 - 26, 2009, at George Washington University. 
Students interested in IJ's summer programs should visit www.ij.org/students for more information.

National Housing Law Project
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) is a policy advocacy and law center focused on advancing housing justice for low-income people. NHLP encourages interested law school graduates who have ideas for a public interest project within its broad substantive priorities to seek its sponsorship for a post-graduate fellowship. NHLP also offers clerking opportunities throughout the academic year and summer for second-and third-year law students. Positions are available in Oakland, California and Washington, DC.

Further information regarding the NHLP fellowship and clerking opportunities is available in the Career Services Office. Questions may also be e-mailed to Meliah Schultzman at mschultzman@nhlp.org for Oakland positions, or David Rammler at drammler@nhlp.org for Washington DC-based positions.

Judicial Clerkships
For those students interested in clerking for a judge after graduation, there are judicial clerkship opportunities available in the federal and state court systems throughout the country. For further information and resources regarding judicial clerkships, please contact the Career Services Office.

Upcoming Job Fairs and Networking Opportunities

Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair

The 5th Annual Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair (HDLJF) will be held August 7-8 in Kansas City, Mo. Students who are interested in becoming part of Kansas City's dynamic legal community should strongly consider attending this event. Students who will be returning to school in August and those graduating in May are eligible to attend the job fair. Employers will be interviewing for both summer and post-graduate positions.

The HDLJF is the result of Kansas City's leading law firms, legal associations and corporate legal departments coming together to encourage law students to practice law in Kansas City. The HDLJF is designed to expose law students of diverse backgrounds to both traditional and non-traditional legal employers. In addition, the event is a great way to learn more about living in Kansas City.

The HDLJF will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center. It will kick off with an evening Welcome Reception on Friday, Aug. 7, at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. The Saturday schedule includes a continental breakfast, interviewing from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a luncheon at which participants will be greeted and addressed by a keynote speaker.

Please register as soon as possible after registration opens on March 26. Students who register before May 25 will be entered into a drawing for exciting prizes. The final deadline for registering is June 20.

Students can register online and find more information about the job fair.

Students can also contact Emily Perry at 816-474-4322.

Upcoming Workshops

Tuesday, March 17
MBE/Study Aids
Recommended for 3Ls
Noon to 12:50 p.m., Room 303

Tuesday, March 17
Brief Writing Focus
Recommended for 1Ls & 2Ls
Noon to 12:50 p.m., Room 02

Tuesday, March 25
Comparing A & C Exam Answers
Recommended for Part-time students & accelerated 1Ls 6 to 6:50 p.m., Room 02

Academic Hint #12

Outlining Well, Part 2:
You should never be surprised about your exam questions. Most students realize that professors have a specific way of answering the exam question.  Sometimes professors even provide students with Power Points, sometimes they use hypotheticals and sometimes they ask pattern questions to cue students about the way they should do the analysis. 

So, why not decide, based on all those hints, how you are going to answer an issue before you are in the exam. Why not create an exam strategy now? 

For example, your property outline might include a chart of the various types of freehold estates, noting what words generally trigger that type of estate, what rules might be considered, what is the grantor’s and grantee’s future interest, what is the length of time and what is the right of use and the right of conveyance.  Then you have a chart that has all the initial information you need for a number of estates. While a chart focuses only on the major comparisons, (you will still need to include additional information in your outline) it is a good way to focus on the essential similarities and differences within a particular concept — in this case, freehold estates.

Similarly, you might want to list a series of questions that might trigger a certain analysis. For example, consider how you might analyze the separation of powers in constitution law. Decide how to break down all the possible situations and what test you might use to decide if the action is constitutional or not. 

The bottom line: Figure out how to answer an issue now — or you will be doing it in the middle of the exam.

Studying well

Studying well is the logical result of good preparation and organization. However, you need to make sure you start in sufficient time so that you are not cramming at the end — and that you have time to practice review questions. One way to assure that you get all that material studied, understood and then be able to present it back on an exam is to set demonstrable goals. So take 1 to 2 minutes to prepare for studying by:

• Establishing measurable goals
• Deciding how to organize your studying
• Engage in positive self-talk
• Example:
• “For the next 3 hours I’m going to study the enforcement part of my contract outline. By the end of that 3-hour period, I will be able to define each of the various rules, their elements and their relationship to each other.
• Emphasis on concrete terms
• If you don’t meet your goal, know what you still need to do

Next, decide:

• People? (where you can discuss concepts periodically) or
• No people?
• Quiet?
• Home or library or coffee shop?

• About every 45 minutes to 1 hour, take a stretching break
• After about 3 hours, change the focus of your studying

• So you have sufficient time
• Allows you to get less distracted thinking about when you are stopping

After you have made these preliminary decisions, you may find yourself less inclined to procrastinate until the last few weeks of class. For any first-year student wishing to see more on study tips, go to the workshops on TWEN and hit Study Skills and Study Aids. Other students can e-mail Jan Herweg for a copy at herlethj@slu.edu.