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issue date: May 7, 2008



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__________________________________ ALL STUDENTS Office Hours The Career Services Office is located in Room 113 and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. We will maintain these regular hours throughout the exam period and the summer. Individual appointments can be scheduled for times 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 and 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. Career Services Thursday at Noon Programming There are no programs for the remainder of the semester. NALP 2008 Online Apartment Exchange Law students seeking summer housing and students with housing available for the summer are invited to participate in NALP’s free online 2008 Apartment Exchange. Visit www.nalp.org and follow the link to the Apartment Exchange. The Apartment Exchange is a free service and will be available from Jan. 18 through May 16, 2008. Job Fairs and Networking Opportunities Lavender Law Career Fair This year the Lavender Law Career Fair will be held Thursday, September 4, in San Francisco at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero. The Lavender Law Career Fair is designed to achieve a sense of community and inclusion for LGBT candidates within the legal profession's recruiting efforts. By participating in this career fair, candidates will talk directly to LGBT-friendly recruiters from law firms, government agencies, LGBT rights groups and legal departments. For additional information, go to www.lavenderlaw.org/careerfair.html. Cook County Bar Association Annual Minority Law Student Job Fair The Cook County Bar Association (CCBA) is pleased to invite law students to participate in the 25th Annual Minority Law Student Job Fair. The Job Fair typically attracts more than 700 law students and nearly 160 law firms, corporations and government agencies. The job fair is open to all first and second year law students (regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.). The only students not eligible are those graduating this May or August. Please be advised, however, that participating employers are looking for students with a demonstrated commitment to diversity in the profession. This year only students in the classes of 2009 and 2010 are invited. This year's Job Fair will be held on Friday, August 8, at the Embassy Suites Chicago-Downtown/Lakefront, 511 North Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60611. Registration information is available in Career Services. For more information, please visit www.ccbaminorityjobfair.com. If you have questions, please contact Anne Hensley at hensley@slu.edu or 314-977-2729.
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Academic Hint #19 And here is the final piece of exam advice: Consider what the question is asking you to do. Exam questions are not created alike. As you undoubtedly know, they can require short answers to pages of analysis, from M/C to take-home. Another significant difference in an exam question is based on who the professor is asking you to “be.” Are you judging the merits of two positions and deciding which is correct? Arguing a client’s position? Deciding if your client has a valid position? How you answer depends on deciding what the call of the question should be. So, if the question asks you to be a judge, answer the question as a judge would – more objectively examining both sides of the argument and coming to a decision consistent with the law that you learned in that class. If you are asked to be a lawyer, your conclusions should be in the form of advice. If the question is about policy, you need to (generally) factor in economics and the social, practical and equitable consequences of any legal course of action. Of course you need to add the additional layer that whatever the call, you need also to keep in mind how this professor would like you to answer. Is she more interested in the policy concerns? Interested in real life solutions? Does she want support from specific cases? So, don’t give the professor a glorified outline of the subject. Instead, explain the relevant law as it applies to the facts of the exam question. In this way you will give the professor both substantive law and analytical thinking of how you apply it – the two essential parts of exam writing. Good luck on the rest of your exams – and have a good summer! Writing Support Services 2L and 3Ls are welcome to get feedback on seminar projects. Please be advised that I need at least a 4-day window to read your paper and provide feedback. E-mail me for an appointment or drop by my office, 101A Student Services. Kim Novak Morse, Asst. Director Writing Services, morseka@slu.edu Bar Preparation Workshop Schedule BAR PREPARATION TIP: I know that you are often inundated with bar exam preparation offers. Before you discard any of the flyers, make sure you read them and determine if the program might be helpful to you. Some of these programs are not meant to replace your main bar prep course, but can act as supplements to help you with bar exam essays or multiple choice questions. Please direct questions to Professor Twinette Johnson at johnsot@slu.edu or 977-4141. Professor Johnson will hold office hours in Student Services on Tuesdays from 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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