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The Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Academic Success Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Moving on Panel: Breadth and Depth, Direct from the Adjunct Faculty - Planning Your Curriculum across your 2L and 3L Years (Part III): A panel of adjunct faculty members offer their insights into the connections between course selection during law school and practice after graduation.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Moving on Panel: Breadth and Depth, Direct from the Faculty - Planning Your Curriculum across your 2L and 3L Years (Part II): Hear from our second panel of full-time faculty members and learn about the wide array of courses and learning experiences available to you in such areas as environmental law, corporate law, family law, and more. Hear about the amazing opportunities you’ll have to study law in clinical and other experiential settings.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Moving on Panel: Breadth and Depth, Direct from the Faculty - Planning Your Curriculum across your 2L and 3L Years (Part I): Hear from a panel of faculty members who will discuss the fascinating upper-level courses available to you on a range of topics including national security law, international law, corporate and regulatory law, constitutional law and more.
Monday, Feb. 4, 2013
Finding Your Niche: Law school - and becoming a lawyer - are about more than what goes on in the classroom. Exploring your passions and interests, making friends, developing your leadership skills, and creating a network of future professional colleagues are all significant parts of your law school experience. Hear from students involved in a variety of journals, student organizations, pro bono projects and activities as they share their experiences.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013
Lessons Learned from First Semester: What can you - and can you not - take away from first semester? What's the best way to move forward? How important are first semester grades? What if I did well? What if I'm not happy with how I did? These questions are answered.
Monday, Nov. 19, 2012
Exams: A Professor's Perspective: Wondering what a law school exam looks like? Trying to figure out how to best prepare? Professor Robert Jackson leads a discussion about what to expect and ways to prepare for your upcoming exams.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012
Exam Prep Student Panel: A panel of upper-year students discuss exam preparation strategies. What are some good study strategies? Do I need a study group? How can I manage my time on an exam? What do I do if I feel that I am not understanding some of the issues being covered in my courses?
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
Learning from your Peers: A panel of upper-year students discuss how they managed to successfully navigate the academic pressures of their early years at CLS (while still managing to leave the library!). The panel provides practical advice on issues including class preparation, outlining, studying for exams, and taking exams.
Monday, Sept. 24, 2012
Gearing up for 1st Year: Discover the Secrets of Academic Success: Prof. Christina Ponsa discusses how to manage your workload, prepare for class, and get the most out of your classroom experience.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Moving On - Breadth and Depth: Direct from the Adjunct Faculty: A panel of adjunct faculty members share their advice how to make the most of 2L and 3L year from the perspective of practicing attorneys.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Moving On - Breadth and Depth: Direct from the Faculty, Part II: Planning Your 2L Curriculum Part II A panel of faculty members discuss the upper-level courses available on a range of topics including national security, legislation, transactional issues, environmental law, tax, gender and media.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Moving On - Breadth and Depth: Direct from the Faculty, Part I: Planning Your 2L Curriculum A panel of faculty members discuss the upper-level courses available on a range of topics including national security, legislation, transactional issues, environmental law, tax, gender and media.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Moving On: Do the "Write" Thing: Directors of Academic Counseling Anne Green and Joel Kosman together with a panel of student experts give tips and advice on maximizing the benefits of the significant writing projects taken on by 2Ls and 3Ls, from Notes to the Minor and Major Writing Requirements. What is a Note? How can I get lots of credits from writing one? What are the other writing requirements I will need to fulfill? How can I set myself up to try to get published and have a good writing sample to use for job applications? Learn all this and more.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Academic Success: Finding Your Niche in Law School: and becoming a lawyer - are about more than what goes on in the classroom. Exploring passions and interests, making friends, developing leadership skills, and creating a network of future professional colleagues are all significant parts of the law school experience. Hear from students involved in a variety of journals, student organizations, pro bono projects and activities as they share their experiences.
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012
Academic Success: Lessons Learned from First Semester: Now that you've gotten your first semester grades back and are settling into second semester, Professor Michael Heller will present on "Lessons Learned." What can you—and can you not—take away from first semester? What's the best way to move forward? How important are first semester grades? What if I did well? What if I'm not happy with how I did?
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011
Academic Success: Exams: Wondering what a law school exam looks like? Trying to figure out how to best prepare? Professor Robert Jackson led a discussion about what to expect and ways to prepare for upcoming exams.
Monday, Oct. 31, 2011
1L Electives Panel: Professors for the electives to be offered in Spring 2012 presented a panel on the substance of each course.
This program is made possible by the generous support of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.