Summer Term Courses @ UNLV

Summer Term 2009 @ UNLV

Dates for Summer Term 2009
Summer Term I: May 11 to May 29
Summer Term II: June 1 to July 3
Summer Term III: July 6 to August 7

Registration begins March 9, 2009

The Summer Term 2009 Schedule
is now available. Click here to view

For more information, see UNLV's Summer Term website.

New LSAT Identification Requirements

New ID Regulation for Admission to LSAT

Beginning with the June 2008 exam, only government-issued photo IDs with signatures, such as passports and photo drivers licenses, are acceptable IDs for admission to the LSAT. Student IDs are no longer allowed.

Diversity Campaign

DiscoverLaw.org Campaign Targets Diverse Early College Students

DiscoverLaw.org is an intensive, integrated campaign designed to encourage racially and ethnically diverse first- and second-year college students to discover career opportunities in law and to choose a path in undergraduate school that helps them get there.
The cornerstone of the DiscoverLaw.org campaign is http://www.discoverlaw.org/, which features examples of the need for lawyers worldwide, access to law school experts who can answer students’ questions, profiles and advice from diverse law school graduates, and a timeline outlining steps undergraduate students can take to prepare themselves to be a successful law school applicant.

Scholarship Program

Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Inc.'s Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program

With the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Inc.'s Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program, students can receive up to $30,000 ($10,000 for each year of their legal education)! Some students will also receive mentoring and access to summer employment opportunities. To be eligible: a student must have a GPA of at least 3.2. For more information and application materials, please visit: http://www.uncf.org/forstudents/scholarDetailSGA.asp?id=305
You may direct questions concerning the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Scholarship Program to Alice Sykes at 703.205.3514 or alice.sykes@uncf.org.

preLaw Magazine

Dr. Wood has copies of the last few issues of National Jurist's preLaw magazine available in her office. In this month's issue, learn about th most innovative law schools, plus where to go for intellectual property & technology law or advocacy & dispute resolution. Don't want to take the LSAT? Find out which top law school is dropping the LSAT requirements for its outstanding undergrads. Could this be the wave of the future? (Boyd?!)

This is magazine is a great resource for prelaw students at any stage of the process! Come by and pick up a few copies. Dr. Wood's office hours are M/W from 10 until 12. If you can't make it during those times, send her an e-mail and she'll leave a copy for you on her bulletin board. For more information about this resource, as well as a full online version of the magazine, see the preLaw magazine's fantastic website.

FSU's Summer Program DEADLINE!

Applications Due for FSU's Undergrad Program! Florida State University College of Law’s 2009 Summer for Undergraduates Program Applications must be postmarked March 21 for the law school’s intensive, four-week program. This program provides interested students, particularly those from groups historically underrepresented in the legal profession, with an inside look at law school and the legal profession. The program will run from May 18-June 12, 2009
For more information, visit:
http://www.law.fsu.edu/summer_undergraduates/thinkingaboutlawschool.htm

Leadership Nevada Accepting Applications NOW!

National Education for Women’s (NEW) Leadership Nevada is a non-partisan, statewide, leadership and empowerment program of the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Through skill-building workshops, panel discussions and thought provoking conversations, students learn to see themselves as leaders with the confidence to explore public leadership positions.

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, developed the innovative program in 1991 and branched out to invite other universities into its Development Network. In 2001, the Women's Research Institute of Nevada accepted CAWP’s invitation to join the NEW Leadership Development Network and in 2003, held its first program. The Women's Research Institute of Nevada at UNLV offers the only site in the southwestern and Rocky Mountain states to host this program.
During the program, you will:

• Mentor with talented and successful Nevada women leaders
• Discover your ability to lead through hands-on skills building
• Create networks with students & leaders from across Nevada
• Learn the needed tools to make a difference.
• Explore the demands of justice based, effective, and ethical leadership in a diverse society.
• Attend informal sessions with Nevada’s finest leaders in politics business, gaming, education, law, community activism, and more!

This Residential training program is scheduled for June 1-6, 2009 on the UNLV campus, and is offered at No Cost!

Meals, housing, transportation, and program materials are paid for by the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada and our community partners

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to any student attending a Nevada college or university who has an interest in learning about women’s leadership and who wants to develop their own leadership skills. Also open to Nevada residents attending school out-of-state. Seniors who are graduating in the spring of 2009 are eligible to apply.

Applications available on the website.

DEADLINE: MARCH 13th, 2009.

** We are extending the deadline through the end of March. PLEASE get your applications in as soon as possible**

Please turn in application & essay as soon as possible, the letters of recommendation can come later.

Feel free to contact Diana Rhodes, Program Director, for more information or if you have questions.