This book by Cliff Enico provides food for thought as well as practical advice on how to approach legal job interviews. It is peppered with war stories of actual interviews and gives helpful advice on how you should think about the interview process. He also gives insights on how employer approach and utilize the interview to screen applicants.
The Legal Job Interview is available in the Reserve area at KF297.E56 2008
An article entitled Get Real About Research and Writing by Mark Cooney which appeared in the May 2004 issue of the ABA Student Lawyer Magazine takes on the common myths about research and writing in legal practice. To help students develop their legal research skills beyond those learned in Legal Writing, the librarians teach several research courses. These courses cover resource selection, research strategies and search techniques. Emphasis is placed on gaining familiarity and competence with the materials most commonly used by attorneys in day-to-day practice, working with print sources, online databases, and free sources of law on the Internet. Advanced Electronic Legal Research and Methodology is offered in the Fall Semester, Legal Research Methods is offered in the Spring Semester, and International and Foreign Law Research is offered every other year. Legal Research Methods Online, our only asynchronous course, is offered each summer
If you didn’t go to a top University as an undergrad or even if you did, you still missed some great courses and teachers. Academic Earth provides free courses from leading universities across the country. There are even some on law.
Confused by the plethora of library locations like Reserve, Reference Desk, Reference, Micromedia Room, etc? Because the collection is distributed on four floors (Court Level, 2nd, 3rd and 4th), you may find that materials are assigned to different locations. The online catalog will indicate the location of the material. For a quick explanation of library locations, check out our Law Library Locations Guide (print copies are also available at the circulation and reference desks).
When you locate materials of interest in the law library catalog, they will have a unique call number. A call number is like an address. It indicates where the book is located in the library. The call number system uses a combination of letters and numbers to arrange materials by subjects. Because books are classified by subject, you can often find several helpful books on the same shelf, or nearby. Knowing the letter(s) for your subject area gives you a place to start browsing the shelves. For example, Constitutional Law materials are located at KF4550 while Criminal Law materials are located at KF9219; Washington legal materials are usually placed in KFW.
For more information on call numbers, see our call number posters at the end of each shelving range or pick up one of our call number quick reference guides at the reference or circulation desk. Law librarian Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill has posted several tutorials and games designed to teach call number systems in her AbsTracked blog. If you need help, please don’t hesitate to ask for assistance.
To see how the issues of the day are being covered by the non-mainstream media, check out the Alt-Press Watch Database available from the Lemieux Database collection. The database has full text articles from independent and alternative newspapers, magazines and journals.
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