By Ragini Shah Clinical Professor of Law Students often wonder about the relationship of a particular clinic to a particular job. Students who want to become criminal defense attorneys want to enroll in our Defenders program. Those who want to be family lawyers want to enroll in our Family Advocacy Clinic. In some sense, I [...]
By Professor Herbert N. Ramy Director, Academic Support Program, Suffolk University Law School Read Cases Actively – It is obvious that students must read the day’s assignment before attending class, but it is important that you read cases actively. Reading actively means, among other things, formulating questions about the material as you read it. Questions [...]
By Professor Herbert N. Ramy Director, Academic Support Program, Suffolk University Law School Law school is full of things that are beyond your control. The courses you must take as a 1L, the cases you have to read, and the exact questions you will be asked on your exams are only a few of things [...]
By Eve J. Brown Director, Suffolk Law IP and Entrepreneurship Clinic I’m often asked by people considering law school what law students can do in the Intellectual Property Entrepreneurship Clinic. “Who are our clients?” “What kind of cases can I handle before I pass the bar?” And probably most appropriately, “Will I learn what it [...]
By Professor Herbert N. Ramy Director, Academic Support Program, Suffolk University Law School In law school, most everyone’s examination experience is the same on one important level. The grades on the transcript rarely match up with the expectations students had when they entered law school. If your grades did not match up with your expectations, [...]
By Jessica Silbey Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School There is a general misconception that you need to have a science background to have a career in intellectual property. You don’t. Anyone can be an IP lawyer because being an IP lawyer means being a business lawyer—drafting and negotiating contracts, licenses, putting deals together. [...]
By Professor Herb Ramy Director, Academic Support Program, Suffolk University Law School Our "Tip of the Week" addresses an important part of the distillation process that is involved in creating a course outline. Simply put, less is usually more when outlining. An outline is your attempt to reduce all the information you have on a [...]
By Ragini Shah Clinical Professor Law, Suffolk Law School 1. Can the President take executive action on immigration? Isn’t immigration law exclusively in the hands of Congress? Executive action is well within the President’s powers. Republicans in Congress have decried the executive action as going beyond the President’s powers and infringing on Congressional power. This [...]
By Gerald M. Slater Assistant Dean for Professional & Career Development, Suffolk Law School It’s time to start training law students to be lawyers. Law students have been trained to think like lawyers, but not trained to do what lawyers do. Last week, I wrote in this blog post about our new new Accelerator Practice, [...]
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