The Law Student's Guide to Doing Well and Being Well

The Law Student's Guide to Doing Well and Being Well
Author: Shailini Jandial George
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531021559

"The ABA and most state bar associations have identified a wellness crisis in the legal profession, and called for educating students on how to better cope with the challenges of law school and practice. At the same time, students must learn how to maximize their brain health so that they perform well in law school and on behalf of their clients in practice. The same way musicians would tune their instruments, or chefs would sharpen their knives, law students must sharpen their minds. This book aims to help students "do well" in their ability to learn, and "be well" in the process, by exploring the deep connection between brain health and wellness. Specifically, the book discusses: How to cultivate the ability to deeply focus and deal with the challenges of the 24/7 digital age How stress affects both brain and body How increasing resilience helps deal with challenges and setbacks Why we need exercise for mental, physical, and brain health Why adequate sleep is important and how it can be improved How what we eat affects the brain and one's physical performance Written in a witty, informative, and easy-to-read style, the book is full of suggestions to help students establish healthy and productive habits which will benefit both brain and body. Each chapter ends with a self-reflection exercise to help students take the material and consciously begin implementing its suggestions. This book could be used in orientation programs, academic support and wellness programming, professional development, mindfulness, and other "preparing for practice" courses"--

Roadmap

Roadmap
Author: Neil W. Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781639053322

"Do you hope to find post-graduation employment that fits your passion, interests, and strengths? If meaningful employment with the potential for career advancement is your goal, this book is your roadmap to develop and implement a written professional development plan to achieve your goal"--

Legal Informatics

Legal Informatics
Author: Daniel Martin Katz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107142725

This cutting-edge volume offers a theoretical and applied introduction to the emerging legal technology and informatics industry.

Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum

Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum
Author: Emily Grant
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Experiential learning
ISBN: 9781611636901

The mandate for more experiential education raises a fundamental question for law teachers: how do we design and provide these learning opportunities for our students? This book offers answers to that question. Organized into four sections, it discusses specific techniques for incorporating various forms of experiential education into the law school curriculum, ranging from discrete modules of experiential instruction to complete curriculum reform. Section I provides the foundation for making curricular changes, with chapters providing guidance on building both institutional and student support for experiential education. Section II explores the spectrum of experiential education, starting with chapters that explain experiential modules and classroom exercises that can be included in first-year and upper-level courses before moving to chapters that describe and explain immersive learning experiences such as course-long simulations and semester-in-practice programs, culminating in chapters focusing on complete curriculum reform. Section III describes programs that offer experiential learning opportunities outside of the regular curriculum. Section IV concludes the book, offering online resources for experiential education and guidance on how to provide experiential education in an online format.

Developing Your Professional Identity

Developing Your Professional Identity
Author: Edwin Scott Fruehwald
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781519114105

"Who will I be as a lawyer? This is the most important question any law student can ask. Yet, in traditional legal education, this question rarely comes up. The purpose of this book is to change this. Professional identity is a lawyer's personal legal morality, values, decision-making process, and self-consciousness in relation to the practices of the legal profession (legal culture). It provides the framework that a lawyer uses to make all a lawyer's decision. This book takes a variety of approaches to help you develop your professional identity. It asks you to take a close look at yourself by asking questions about your childhood, your college years, and who you are today. It give[s] you the tools you will need to develop your professional identity. It deals with professional identity within certain topics - the attorney-client relationship, the lawyer and society, and attorney advertising and solicitation of clients, and it focuses on your future role as a lawyer"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Thinking Like a Lawyer

Thinking Like a Lawyer
Author: Colin Seale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781003482147

"Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. This bestselling book introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gap, gives teachers the tools and knowledge to teach critical thinking to all students, empowers students to tackle 21st-century problems, and teaches students how to compete in a rapidly changing global marketplace. Colin Seale, a teacher-turned-attorney-turned-education-innovator and founder of thinkLaw, uses his unique experience to introduce a wide variety of concrete instructional strategies and examples that teachers can use in all grade levels. Individual chapters address underachievement, the value of nuance, evidence-based reasoning, social-emotional learning, equitable education, and leveraging families to close the critical thinking gap. In addition to offering examples for Math, Science, ELA, and Social Studies, this timely, updated second edition adds a variety of new examples and applications for Physical Education, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, and Career and Technical Education"--

Improving Student Learning in the Doctrinal Law School Classroom

Improving Student Learning in the Doctrinal Law School Classroom
Author: Kimberly E. O'Leary
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531019365

"Legal education has created silos where certain professors teach "skills" courses and others teach "doctrine." This book challenges that division by building on learning theories that establish students cannot truly learn doctrine without explicit instruction in skills. Moreover, it provides suggestions to demonstrate how law professors can seamlessly weave skills-based assessments into a course to spotlight for students what they have learned and for professors what students haven't learned (as required by ABA Standard 314)"--

Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom

Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom
Author: Tammy Pettinato Oltz
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531001995

"After decades of taking a back seat to doctrine, lawyering skills have lately become the star of the legal education reform movement. Few law schools continue to question whether essential lawyering skills such as legal writing, research, and advocacy deserve a prominent place in the curriculum. Yet law schools continue to struggle with an artificial split between "doctrinal" courses and "skills" courses-a split that ignores best practices and undermines student learning. In this book, which includes an Introduction by Sophie Sparrow, more than twenty law professors who have figured out how to bridge the gap show why integrating skills into traditional doctrinal courses is crucial to student learning and offer proven strategies for how to do it"--