 Welcome back. Great to see you all. Just I want to say a couple of quick things and then there's there's a plan for for the hour here but I don't want I don't want to stand in the way of it. Before though we begin I do want to take just a moment to reflect on two losses that our community suffered since the time most of you left. You probably know that the president of the University Donald Farish died suddenly this summer and your classmate Roy Jan died in in May just after exams. I know that I sent you an email. The family ended up not having any kind of public memorial service. We would have let you know about that and you didn't hear back from us because because everything they did was private and we wanted to of course honor their wishes but I think it would be appropriate for us to just take a moment of silence here to honor President Farish and Roy. Thank you. So on a happier note we will be celebrating our 25th anniversary this year and we've got a few events that I hope will be exciting for you. Some of them are events that we have at the law school with some frequency but they are nevertheless exciting. One thing that's happening this year that hasn't happened in a long time is that we've we've got two new faculty members teaching in doctrinal classrooms. Some of you already have CJ Ryan who is teaching Wills and Trusts this semester and statistics for lawyers to some of you and Tara Allen a long time adjunct has joined the faculty and is teaching criminal law to the first years and evidence to to half of the 2L class so we're really excited to have them. Just as a heads up October looks to be a busy month on the second the first circuit will be hearing live argument here in this room and you'll get more details about that soon which cases they're going to be hearing. I've already had some communication from an alum who is involved in one of the cases that the first circuit is hearing here at the law school so it'll be a panel of three from the circuit will for sure include Judge Celia and if past is prologue probably the chief judge of the first circuit and Judge Thompson who's the other sort of Rhode Islander on the circuit. On October 4th we're having a blowout women in robes event bigger than usual you'll hear some more details about that I hope that you can join us and on the 24th up in Providence as well the Supreme Court of Rhode Island will be hearing the finals of the Esther Clark Moot Court competition so good luck to those of you who are involved in that. The only other thing I want to tell you is that if you are interested in providing some input to the search firm that is heading up the search for our presidential vacancy there'll be some emails coming out about listening sessions that they will be holding. Most are being held in the law school so it'll be very easy for you to attend one of those and speak to them if you would like to do that so without further ado we are moving on to academic affairs matters and that means Associate Dean Hassel let me tell you something about Associate Dean Hassel this is the last one of these that she's gonna do and I think I can say with confidence ever yeah yeah so so I'm sure this is gonna be a bittersweet moment for her if tears well up in her eyes you'll understand what's happening so yeah Dean Hassel. So as as Michael alluded to I'm gonna step down from this position in January and return to being a full-time member of the faculty and Jared Goldstein will be taking my place and will be down there on the first floor helping you all with any academic matters that come up. So this morning I just wanted to point out a few rules of the road that you want to just make sure you're you're aware of as you move into your second and third years you should definitely have picked up a new copy of the student handbook which it which includes the academic code there were some modifications over the year over this past summer not anything too substantial but you want to make sure you're working with the most the most recent version. So two important things or a couple important things that I think you should refer to and make sure you're on track with the first one is the graduation requirements which is section 703 which is on page 49. So don't just rely on the registrar or the Dean of Students or me to tell you like wait a minute you haven't done everything you need to do to graduate and you certainly don't want to be running around at the at the end of your third year trying to figure things out. So this lays out all the all the graduation requirements the required courses the experiential education requirement which is six credits of experiential education the right the graduation writing requirement the pro bono experiential learning requirement which you'll hear more about in a minute. So just take a minute when you have a chance and check through see where you are see that you've you're on track to finish these things and that you have a plan for finishing your graduation writing requirement getting your pro bono hours in whatever needs to be done. The other piece of the academic code or it's not really part of the academic code but it's the addendum is the honor code. Hopefully none of this will involve you but it's best to sort of get an idea of what's prohibited and what your obligations are under the honor code. So you're prepared if any situation arises if you find yourself in a situation where you you're about to do something and you're not sure if it's okay stop and ask someone either your professor or me or someone you don't want to inadvertently get yourself tangled up in any honor code violations. The other thing I wanted to mention to you was the character and fitness portion of your application for law school which I'm sure is long lost in your memory contained an obligation to update as time went on. So if anything has happened since you filled out that application that needs to be added you have an obligation to do that in a timely manner and the reason for doing this or one of the main reasons for doing this is because these same questions will be asked of you in your bar application and if you tell the the the bar examiners about something that you never told us that will raise a question for them of your candor because one of the things they will be getting with your bar application is a copy of your law school application. So I just want to remind you the kinds of things that have to be reported are sanctions by any educational institution in the past or of course Roger Williams. Any criminal matters well specifically any felony charges they don't have to be convictions any misdemeanor convictions over the past five years and any pending charges and regardless of whether something happened when you are a minor and it was expunged it still needs to be disclosed to us because the bar application will also ask you for things regardless of whether they've been expunged. The other thing you need to tell us is if there's been any suspension discharge or asked to resign from any employment and have you been subject to any professional discipline having you accused of fraud or misrepresentation and if you're a member of the armed forces have you been have any charges or proceedings been brought against you. So take some mint time to think certainly has anything in any of these categories happened since you did your application. Also now's the time to think again is that was there something you probably should have put in your application and you didn't. Now's the time to amend it and make sure every all your ducks are in a row and all of our information is consistent with what you will be sending the bar so there'll be no problems there. If you have any questions about whether something should or should not be disclosed just send me an email and I'm happy to talk to you about it. So keep a copy of your academic code most of the answers are in there but if you can't find the answers I'm happy to help you out at least until January. Next you're going to hear about the pro bono learning requirement from Susie Harrington Steppen. On a lighter note thank you Diana many of you have already fulfilled the 50 hour graduation requirement but for those of you who haven't especially the three L's three ways to do it okay the pro bono collaborative we're recruiting now those are our sort of in-house pro bono projects they're flexible you usually need to do that work over the course of two semesters really great for students who are very busy again if you want to join a pro bono collaborative project you need to do it in the next two weeks there's emails going out for recruitment and I'll be in my office most days and down in the bistro next week recruiting for those projects the second way is alternative spring break many of you who have done alternative spring break it's great for three L's who are looking for a way to do all 50 hours in a limited amount of time you spend your spring break doing pro bono in the field there's a reflective journal component but we can get you all 50 hours in one week so great option for those of you who tend to sort of wait to the last minute the third is to either use an internship either something you did this past summer if it was with a government organization a nonprofit or you can plan an internship for your fall or spring semester that will qualify we have about 45 local organizations that are pre-approved but if there's something you want to do that's not on that list that's not a problem stop by my office and get pre-approval okay so pbc pro bono collaborative asp and then find something on your own that sort of looks like an internship how do you actually get certified there are forums again many of you over a hundred of you a hundred of you in the room now have done the the forms that are required so ask your friends they're on our website it's very simple to get certified there's a new process for one L's please do not get confused they're going to be reporting hours through a new online system you all continue to report through the paper forms sorry but the technology isn't quite there yet for your class for those of you who are considering sitting for the New York bar exam New York has a separate pro bono requirement it's different than our requirement and there's a special New York affidavit you need to fulfill we have information on our website about the New York requirement or you can stop by but just make sure you remember they're different certain things qualify for New York that don't qualify for the law school and vice versa um we cannot match three L's with a pro bono opportunity in the spring of your third year every year i have a few students who come in and they and they sort of look at me like what can you do for me i can help you now i'm happy to help each of you find something that makes sense but please don't wait until the spring of your third year we do not match students with opportunities we provide many but you need to choose what makes sense for you and lastly every student that does a hundred hours or more pro bono is recognized in the commencement program so stay tuned if you're a 3L in the spring usually around March we send an email out asking you to self report everything over 50 hours okay stop by my office if you got and have any questions about the requirement thanks and Andy's going to speak about the clinical programs sorry Andy that's quite right uh so hi i'm Andy Horowitz i'm the assistant dean for experiential education so my a few minutes here is to just alert you to and get you thinking about the variety of clinical and externship experiences that are part of our curriculum so we have application periods for the clinics and externships in the fall and in the spring so for those of you who are two L's you want to make sure you're paying particular attention to the spring application period that will come you know two semesters or a semester and a half from now because that's the period of time when you will be applying for clinics and externships in either semester of your third year what's happening in the fall application period that's coming is applications only for this coming spring so for the three L's there are spots available in most but not all of our clinics and externships some of them are actually full from the application period we held last spring so uh in particular for the two L's as you think ahead about planning and you should be thinking about planning right now you want to begin to sort of map the contours of your remaining two years or year and a half after this semester you can take a clinic and an externship usually in different semesters you can take two externships you can take an externship that is a semester in practice where the only class you're taking that semester is your full-time externship and the seminar component that goes along with it i'm not going to spend the time now to go through the different programs they're described on our website but perhaps more importantly we hold an information session every semester this semester's information session is September 12th which is a Wednesday at noon if you are thinking about or have any interest in applying for any of the clinics or externships you ought to come to that information session and that's where you'll get good and full information about the process outside of that you ought to be thinking about getting some individual counseling if you're a little bit confused or concerned or have questions or are up in the air about what experience might work best for you or what combination might work best for you educationally counseling for those who are interested in the public interest kind of aspects of the externship you'll find in the Feinstein Center they're very happy to meet with students individually and begin to talk to you and counsel you through your choices there for those who are more interested in the business kind of end of experiential education we have a startup business clinic and we have a corporate council externship program that are particularly well designed for the students with those interests David Gibbs who's the director of our corporate council externship program is the person to see to schedule an appointment with for counseling about how you might map your curriculum and your studies around those particular interests so September 12th at noon come to the information session pay attention to emails about the application period that's coming this fall and in particular for 2Ls pay real attention to the application period and the information session that are going to come in the spring because that's when you have the opportunity to try and plan out the entirety of your third year the one experiential ed program that doesn't quite fall under my umbrella i'm going to turn the microphone over to Reed Porter who's going to talk for a minute about the Sea Grant Law Fellowship Program thanks Andy hi everybody i'm Reed Porter from the Marina Ferris Institute and for those that don't know i run the Sea Grant Law Fellow Program that program has conveniently enough a deadline today if you're interested in participating during the fall semester applications are each semester three times a year so fall spring and summer there's an application period at the beginning of each semester for that semester so the application period is different from the other clinics and externships to to apply it's it's basic information like you would apply to any other law job you can come contact me if you have any questions about that we do pay students for participating or not this semester but in future semesters you can get credit for the externship credit that you need to graduate or for in some cases to the graduation writing requirements so keep that in mind you do not need to be a maritime or marina ferris student groupie to apply you are allowed to to come and see me even if you want to do something else and a lot of our projects are focused on business law or other aspects of law that you wouldn't necessarily think of as marine affairs i can give you a quick rundown of what projects are available that i'll be hiring for after today one is about organic standards for for for seafood so that's a business labeling issue and marketing takings so anybody that's interested in property law takings related to energy facilities there's a local land use and permitting issue about oyster aquaculture and siting of aquaculture facilities and finally there's an international law project that's focused on marine spatial planning laws for small island developing states so a really nice variety of projects and i do encourage all of you that that are interested in any of those to to send me an application you work on on these projects under my guidance so it's a little bit different from an externship but they are real-world projects for outside organizations so we are we are working with outsiders regularly and so you can develop interviewing skills you can develop your your legal writing skills and presentation skills as well so again any questions come see me i'm here all afternoon over in the marine affairs office and the next person is Veronica welcome back it's great to see so many of you here and i know you've been all over the place this summer we always love to hear how your experiences went the first person i want to introduce you to is chris girlica so he's a new legal career counselor in the office as many of you know tiffany had a baby last year and decided to stay home with her baby so now we've got chris on board with us and he is seeing people quite a bit now so feel free to set appointment directly with chris he's one of our graduates from the class of 2012 he was very involved while he was in law school doing a number of different internships a number of student leadership positions he was a seasonal recruiter for the admissions office so he was on the road for the law school recruiting classes a few years ahead of you and has had his own practice now for a number of years so we're very excited to have him on board so feel free to stop by say hello and introduce yourself and also feel free to tell us how your summers went because we love to hear those updates which leads to my next point which is updating your resume so i know a number of you are already working on that but the sooner you can do it the better just because we don't want you to wait until a deadline is hovering over you so that you have the time to actually make sure it's the best possible representation of what you have done especially if you have had an experience this summer if you now have leadership positions here at the law school or if you're doing something this semester another component we want to make sure is that we can see you all so we're doing resume walk-in days typically the first week of every month so we have our first one this coming Tuesday nine until four you don't need an appointment just come in with your materials but we ask that you make a good effort ahead of time so what you bring to us is something we know has already been looked at and updated and then we can take it from that point so so i encourage you to update your resumes earlier the better and there will be deadlines as you'll hear as you've already heard that will come up quickly so we encourage you to do that so now i want to talk about just hiring timelines so i'm going to address the third year students first so right now a lot of you are freaking out about your graduating in may and you don't have a job yet so i want to make sure you understand what the hiring timeline looks like for graduating students so deadlines that are happening right now for third year students are typically judicial clerkships so you've seen some of those come up over the summer there will be a deadline in October for Rhode Island for the law clerk department here and we have that all outlined on simplicity but also federal government so if you're thinking about working for federal government agency those deadlines happen very early the department of justice which has one of the highest one of the largest hiring programs for entry-level attorneys their deadline is next week so we want to make sure that you are aware of those early deadlines the arizona handbook is on simplicity that is a great compilation of all the deadlines of all the programs that are available to law students in their third year so make sure you take a look at that the other thing is a federal resume can and should be different than your regular resume so we want to make sure that you know that there's no page limit so it's actually a lot easier to write than your traditional resume which is only typically one or two pages so make sure you work with one of us if federal government is what you want to do to to work on that federal resume so again we're looking for as many keywords as we can get to make you appealing to a federal agency the presidential management fellows program is also another very popular program for graduating law students it's a two-year program we've had students secure PMFs is what they're called every year the application process is typically open for one to two weeks so I will send out an email as soon as that's open in October and again the turnaround is very quickly but it's a great program that we've had a lot of success in so take a look when you see those emails come out so that handles the early deadlines and then other employers if it's not a federal agency if it's not a judge is typically going to wait until you have bar results the exception being you know if you were with a firm this summer and they love the work you did and they wanted to give you an offer if you're working with an employer throughout your third year and they are very happy with you and give you an offer ahead of time so that's just something to keep in mind that this is a job search that's going to keep going that doesn't mean if there are no deadlines now that you should not be looking so certainly set up a time to talk with one of us to figure out what the best strategy is for each individual out there okay so now for second year law students so you've already seen a number of deadlines have passed for resume collections and on campus interviews there wasn't going to continue to happen so even just got an email this morning about another firm that wants to come on campus so make sure you check your emails very often another reason why we want to have make sure your materials are up to date now so that's going to happen throughout the third year I also want to make sure you know that there are also deadlines for two wells for federal agencies so the same thing applies for what I just said previously there's a different federal resume so make sure you work with one of us for that so so take a look at that but you will be applying pretty much for your second summer throughout the entire year too so it's a marathon not a sprint so so we're right there running alongside with you we do a lot of mock interviews I just did one this morning so if you are getting interviews and you are nervous about your interview skills please schedule a time to do a mock interview with us so that you can again be your best presentation when you're in the interview with an employer so this is a shout out to all the student groups we love to co-sponsor events with you so I've already spoken with a number of you but if that's something you'd like to do make sure you approach us and let us know if we can do something this fall or the spring we'd love to tag along with you guys and make it the best possible event or if you're looking for speakers we're happy to give suggestions equal justice works that is if you're a public interest minded law student and you're thinking about going to a national career fair equal justice works is absolutely worth your time and effort we have students that get hired every single year through this career fair it's nationwide so for the third years that are thinking about doing public defense most agencies are going to be there hiring through that program so definitely take a look at that the deadline for that is September 14th so loxley is going to come up and talk to you for a moment about the american bar association so membership is free to all law students and we strongly encourage you to become a member he will go through all the reasons why but it's also something that it just gives you access to resources to listeners to job postings to events so it's certainly worth your time so your colleague here loxley brian will talk a moment about that thank you hello my name is loxley brian i am your aba representative the aba is a national organization which has over 400 000 members about 10 percent of that or 40 000 students and like veronica said membership is free but there's also a premium version which offers you a lot of value it gets you discounts on things such as bar prep materials and your cell phone bills sprint as a partner rental cars it also gives you the opportunity to look into national organizations for any interest group you you may have and there's also opportunities for development in your professional development so if you'd like to sign up for the premium version of the aba it's only $25 and offers you value opportunity and development thank you as always feel free to make it a point with our office and now i'm going to introduce kathy thompson good afternoon i want to welcome you back it's really nice to see your faces again i first want to thank you already for the help that you've provided to the newbies that are in the building i know that some of you have come back for jumpstart orientation and i know you're working informally with them because a lot of them had told me they've you've given them some help already so thank you for doing that with respect to what i want to share with you look for an administrative announcement from academic success about a course advising information session that we will bring to you before you register for spring classes and we usually come to you so we can capture as many of you as possible and it's usually for about 20 minutes after your con law classes in the meantime if you have any questions um for your that's for your second years any questions about course advising in addition to all the other people that dean Horowitz mentioned um i'm perfectly happy to meet with you as is our new director of bar support and she's been here for a year um professor britney riposa um main purpose of my being here today is to give you a chance to hear from professor riposa and to introduce her um and also to let you hear from someone you know well um most of you dr kishba who's our professor of writing and our newly appointed associate director of academic success um so let me tell you a little bit about um professor riposa she for the year two elves may or may not have met met her had a chance to meet her but you're in for a real treat she graduated number one in her law school class um she received either perfect or near perfect score on the bar exam um she after eight months was voted staff member of the year by the um three elves who were leaving last year and most recently was um awarded rising lawyer by the massachusetts bar um association for her pro bono work um she's an excellent resource for all of our students um in a lot of different ways but particularly for um learning how to take the bar and pass it on your first time and resource for preparing for your applications for the bar exam for different states so i'm going to let you hear from her in a moment but before that i i guess i have to turn the mic over to professor kishba hello everyone it's nice to see you i'm excited about this year because it's my third year so i finally know everyone in the building and while you will all always be number one in my heart you are no longer number one on my priority list there are a hundred and seventy new one else and i need to help those little ducklings hatch um i am still here to help you if you are in lp3 if you are taking a directed research if you have a writing requirement or you're working on a writing sample i am certainly still here to help you but i recommend as always that you figure out what your deadlines are and you book with me well in advance of them um some of you have tried to get in already this week and i am both solid already um if you want to make an appointment this is the same spiel send me a couple days and a couple times on those days when you are available and i will reply with a proposed meeting time the more availability you propose the better chance we'll have of getting you in um meeting with me the earlier the better if i can help you in those initial outlining stages and we can work through this thing together the more useful i will be if you have a finished product and you bring that to me to look over i will help you but i'm limited to helping you with surface elements like grammar punctuation spelling and that's about it um i am also because in in order to try and reach more students at all together and at one time this semester i am trying to schedule some weekly workshops on monday and wednesdays i'm waiting for room confirmations at the moment but uh for an hour on mondays and wednesdays pretty much for the entire semester i will take a room i will lecture on a different writing topic for about 20 minutes to a half hour and then i'll leave the second half hour for specific or general questions about writing you can bring your work with you if you want me to look over something if you haven't been able to get a one-on-one meeting or you just have a simple quick question i will be available for those um i'm also teaching a night class which you are now eligible to take which will go over all manner of grammar punctuation and writing for a professional audience um if you have any questions or i can ever be of help let me know and uh stop by sometimes just say hi good luck guys i'm too short for him so um so i'm bernie reposa the director of bar support um so 30 years are typically my priority second years are like half um and so um one thing that i am offering to second years this semester is of course called legal reasoning with evidence so you're all eligible to take that class what it does is i'm going to teach legal analysis in writing and thinking with multiple choice questions while you're simultaneously enrolled in evidence now so if you didn't do as well as you wanted to in your first year it's a good opportunity to build your skills not only to do better in evidence or in your other law school courses but also to increase your success of first time bar passage um before you get to your third year so that class i believe still has open slots from when i checked this morning so if you're interested you would enroll in it as you would any other course it's under the legal seminar um portion of the registration so it starts on september 13th it is only six weeks and it meets on thursday at five ten and then for third years i teach a l r i have 128 of you this semester in a l r so i'm pretty excited about that um it meets for both semesters both fall and spring one and a half credits each and so we've already gotten started for this semester um if you are not enrolled in a l r i think today's add drop if you still want to get in i think that you can um but if not then you're missing the party that we have once a week this semester and so um if you're sitting for the february 2019 bar exam if you're in this room and taking that bar it's a good time to start looking at deadlines some are coming up if you're taking a july bar exam you still want to know when the deadlines are because certain states are coming up pretty soon north carolina is already january for example so you just want to make sure that you have everything kind of lined up so you're not missing any deadlines you don't want to sit and want to sit in a jurisdiction and are not able to because you missed a particular deadline so just keep aware of that for those of you also taking february 2019 or those of you who want just an early bar preparation type of start i do offer some supplemental bar review classes that you can take simultaneously with your commercial bar preparation course so i offer kick start to bar review and it's starting at the end of this october and i teach tailored to the bar um secure transactions wills and trusts family law conflict of law um and all of the essay tested subjects that are on the bar exam before you graduate and then after you graduate so in january begins supplemental bar review which is once or twice a week i work on building skills and i give the students studying for the bar extra simulated practice so you will be seeing emails from me about all of that stuff um relatively soon but kick start starts at the end of october and supplemental bar review starts in january it is tailored to the february 2019 bar but anyone is welcome to attend the sessions and so february of 2019 is the first time road island is administering the ube so that's just kind of a bar exam update and so they will now be administering it for the next exam and moving forward um something else you should be thinking about is the mpre if you haven't taken it yet you and you already took pr you might want to think about taking it the november there's an exam in november and that deadline is coming up in a couple of weeks if you took the august mpre exam the scores are being released on september 6 so hopefully that you all pass and don't have to worry about taking it again and then you will have to um consider getting a commercial bar preparation course in order to study for the bar exam so when you're downstairs you'll be seeing tables out and you'll be seeing kaplan barberry and themas um i want to make sure it's one of my goals this year to make sure everyone gets a bar course that's best tailored to them and that will work best for them so i'm having a commercial bar preparation course meeting on wednesday september 12 it was at noon but it's now moved to one o'clock because there was a conflict and it's in room 262 um i strongly recommend all 30 years attend that meeting especially if you don't know which bar course to take if you're a second year and you are interested in going you absolutely can um but it's mainly tailored to the third year law students i'll likely have a session again when you are third years and then just lastly i'm it's mandatory that each third year before before the end of the semester meet with me to discuss their plans for the bar and so i did give the students in alr the opportunity to pick first slot um and so that is over and then i will be emailing all of the third years by the end of this week to pick a meeting time with me so we can discuss your plans for the bar exam but other than that my door is always open if you need anything bar related non-bar related so i will see you all this week later on good afternoon everyone welcome back for those of you who might not remember me as i'm often hidden my name is recalities i'm the dean for the library and information services i wanted to give you some updates of what's new in the library since you left us in may and some information about support and providence and our research and instructional programs so both of our computer classrooms are now updated they both have task chairs that you can adjust as you're working in there there will be a teaching computer that will be added to the smaller classrooms sometime this fall for those of you who are fans of our scanner or who were fans and then got turned off by the fact that it turned off all the time the scanner has been fixed we had an update done this summer and that update also brought us a new app that you can use you download the app to your mobile device and then you can import anything that you scan into your mobile device now who cares right well two good things that this app does first good thing for those of you who like to listen to learn it converts the documents that you have scanned into audio files so you can read and listen at the same time or if you're driving or you're at the gym you can have your phone with your headphones and listen to whatever you have scanned if you want to learn more about this app and see a demo of how it works you can talk to lucinda harrison cox or come to me we both have sample documents to show you how this thing works another change over the summer is that we now have single sign-on for digital resources what that means is that you no longer need your id if you're off campus and you need to access something other than bloomberg law lexas or westlaw it uses the single sign-on that you use to access the rw portal so that should make things a little bit easier the last new thing coming soon we're going to make available research appointments for all students this will be a way for you to contact a librarian in a pool of four research librarians to request some extended help with research questions bluebooking questions et cetera we'll send out an announcement when that system is up in terms of providence support starting next week i will be available in the providence offices every tuesday or most tuesdays in the semester by appointment so all you have to do is contact me for now until the research appointments open up and then you can schedule some time to meet with me to discuss any research questions you may have the last piece i wanted to mention are our research and instructional programs one very exciting piece of news is that we're now a west practice ready school and this program provides a range of tools that will be of interest to you but i wanted to mention three of them in particular the first one is the pro view ebooks collection which consists of electronic books for the majority of the west titles that we have in our library not the study aids which are part of the west academic study aids package but everything else west publishes the second item is something of interest for transactional um are excuse me not for transactional for anybody who's working on briefs this semester or next semester it's called drafting assistant it site checks a brief it will build a table of authorities for you and will check the quotes that are in your brief for accuracy in case you wrote the quote incorrectly and the last piece that i wanted to highlight is practical law and practical law connect and that is a task-based tool for those of you who are doing transactional work um an announcement or a reminder research fest is on today until 3 p.m. you can stop by to learn about our digital resources other than lexus and west law you can also enter to win prices by completing three or more short demos and if you want to look at any of the practice ready tools in action you can look at that um please be sure to follow us on facebook twitter instagram and pinterest um we put a lot of information out there for you including research databases programs services hours etc and last but not least remember that the ask a librarian service is available to all of you you can always stop by the library of course but you can also chat with us send us an email um book research appointments when those are available at etc so that you can work with one of our research librarians for any questions you might have and finally don't forget that you can always reach out directly to me with any questions comments concerns or even jokes anything about the library at all please do not hesitate to reach out to me next uh tina bacon from the office of financial aid will be speaking with you hello um i'm one of the assistant directors of financial aid along with kate palatano um i wanted to let you guys all know that if you have any questions about your health insurance fees and how to include it in your cost of attendance to come by the office for three l's i wanted to let you know that um you can borrow federal loans for two uh bar application fees so once you're ready to apply for the um the bar for two different states you can come by our office to borrow additional loans to cover that also for three l's um the bar study loans after you graduate must come from a private student lender so you no longer can borrow from federal loans after you graduate for bar study we do have a recommended lenders um list in our office so you can come by and pick that up now for outside scholarships um they are posted on simplicity as soon as i receive them so you can check that for any outside scholarships um you did pick up a flyer for the max program from access lux is now available for two l's and you will receive an email from us next week um how to enroll you will also be receiving an email once we set the dates for two of the um sessions that will be happening this fall for three l's there will be an exit counseling by them in the spring semester and again um if you can't meet that you can make individual appointments with me or Kate and our door is always open so you can always feel free to come in if you have any financial aid questions or loan questions and next up is um Dean Lally thank you thank you everyone for your full attention i'm the last one and we're almost done i just have some quick things um so as you came in there's a handout on our sexual assault program and this is just a reminder that i'm the title nine coordinator um so if anyone is affected or the victim of any sexual based misconduct harassment um please come and see me um my job is to make sure that i'm providing that resource to a law students in conjunction with jen stanley who's a title nine coordinator um for the law school um i also want to remind students that um even if you didn't apply for academic accommodations for a documented disability as a first or second year student that that door has not closed so if you have any questions about academic accommodations either for a learning difference psychiatric um concern or even a physical disability please um come and speak to me for third years especially as you're thinking as you're prepping for the bar we do have third year students who might not need academic accommodations within law school but might need to apply for accommodations um for the bar exam and so this comes up sometimes um for temporary um conditions or sometimes physical disabilities where you might not need something for an exam that's three hours but when you're looking forward to sitting for an exam that's all day that's six hours you might need some accommodations and sometimes it's helpful to have that documented within the school so if you have questions about that particularly for the bar exam you can speak to me or to professor raposa um realized today is Wednesday and Jill my assistant is out so we didn't send administrative announcements but I do want to just give a reminder that um we do try to consolidate a lot of announcements and information from different offices into the weekly administrative announcements so it's easy to delete but that means you've missed all of the information that's in the email um so email is considered the official communication channel for the law school so we know that you get a lot of emails especially with bridges and everything but please make sure that you're reviewing those emails when there's something urgent or requires action I try to put that right in the heading so you know that it's something either important or urgent or a need action um and then the last announcement is just that just a reminder today is the last day of ad drop if a class has not begun yet the you can continue to add or drop that until the class begins and you can do that either through my RWU or um if you need assistance to the office of student financial records are not here but everyone knows where they are and they're happy to help you so just make sure that everyone who's here has signed up and make sure you pick up the handouts they'll be available in the library and thank you and welcome back