Collection Highlight: from Lemons to Lemonade in the New Legal Job Market

This 2012 title from Richard L. Hermann proposes job search strategies for entry-level attorneys. From Lemons to Lemonade in the New Legal Job Market, Amazon Link & Catalog Link, is written with the recent graduate in mind and discusses possible places to search for jobs (generally), how to get started in the process, and proactive strategies to implement this search. Below is a condensed version of the table of contents. The book can be found at the call number - KF 297. H437 2012

Ch. 1 - 12 Legal Lemons: An Introduction
Ch. 2 - JD-Preferred: Looking Outside the Mainstream
Ch. 3 - Law Jobs Aren't Always Where You Think They Are
Ch. 4 - Leapfrog the Competition
Ch. 5 - The Upside of Small Town Law
Ch. 6 - Teaching in Non-Traditional Environments
Ch. 7 - Doing Nothing is Not an Option
Ch. 8 - Understand the Hierachy of Employer Needs
Ch. 9 - Shope Where There is Demand
Ch. 10 - Don't Take the Job Ads at Face Value
Ch. 11 - How to Dissect a Job Ad
Ch. 12 - The Legal Job Hunter's 13 Biggest Mistakes
Ch. 13 - What Mobile Job Search Apps Can Do For You
Ch. 14 - Enhance Your Law Credential
Ch. 15 - Think Career, Not Job
Ch. 16 - Prepare Your Contacts Roadmap
Ch. 17 - Differentiate Yourself From the Competition
Ch. 18 - Extenuate and Mitigate Your Resume Weakness
Ch. 19 - Emphasize Your Intangibles
Ch. 20 - Accentuate the Positive
Ch. 21 - Write Your Way to a Job
Ch. 22 - Understand the Cosmetics of Legal Job Hunting

Collection Highlight: Reading Like a Lawyer

Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert is a 2012 release by Ruth Ann McKinney that provides valuable and researched strategies for becoming a more efficient reader and additionally, at times, provides exercises to help put these new techniques into practice. This title, Amazon Link & Catalog Link, is written generally with a law student in mind to help them more efficiently deal with the massive reading load that law school entails. Below is a condensed version of the table of contents. The book can be found at the call number - KF 283. M398 2012.

Chapter 1 - Reading in Law School
Chapter 2 - Basic Briefing: Developing an Initial Strategy for Managing Cases
Chapter 3 - Advanced Thinking Leads to Advanced Reading
Chapter 4 - Expert Reading: A New Take on a Familiar Skill
Chapter 5 - Engage with Energy
Chapter 6 - Monitor Your Reading and Read for the Main Idea
Chapter 7 - Always (Always!) Read with a Clear Purpose
Chapter 8 - Get Oriented and "Own" Your Prior Knowledge and Experience
Chapter 9 - There's More to the Five W's (Who, What, When, Where, and Why) Than Meets the Eye
Chapter 10 - Evaluate What You're Reading - Your Ideas Matter
Chapter 11 - Review, Rephrase, Record
Chapter 12 - Casebook Reading: A Summary
Chapter 13 - Reading Statutes
Chapter 14 - Reading Cases Outside of Casebooks
Chapter 15 - Reading on a Screen
Chapter 16 - Conclusion

Special Finals Notice

The Loyola Law Library is open ONLY to Loyola Law Students, Faculty and Staff through May 6, 2013 due to final examinations.

If you require access to depository information please see the Circulation Desk and they will contact a librarian to assist you.

Unlimited Lexis Use For Students This Summer

Earlier today I received the following email that I want to make sure and share with our students:

Unlimited Access to Your Lexis Advance® ID this Summer
We are happy to announce that your law school Lexis Advance ID will remain active during the summer and that you will have unlimited access to the content available to you in law school to be used for your academic, as well as any summer associate or internship/clerkship purposes*. Whether working in a firm, government agency, any of the courts, or brushing up on your cost effective research skills, you will have unlimited access to Lexis Advance.
We understand that as a law student, your legal education does not stop during the summer. In fact, some of your most valuable and practical legal education occurs during your participation in summer associate and internship or clerkship programs. In recognition of this, for the months of June, July and August of this year, we are expanding the permissible uses of your law school Lexis Advance ID to include use by you in these programs, including all research or other work you perform for the firm, agency, or court. You simply need to be registered for Lexis Advance.
Registering for Summer Access

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Support throughout the Summer
Your school's LexisNexis® Account Executive is available to you during the summer for training and support. Feel free to contact him or her early to let them know your summer research goals.
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Enjoy your "All Access Pass" to Lexis Advance this summer!

Sandra Day O’Connor, The Supreme Court, and Laughter

Today’s New York Times has a review of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s latest book, Out of Order. The Times reviewer noted the many things covered in this compendium of Supreme Court miscellany included humor at the Supreme Court and that “[a] law professor’s 2005 study of “laughter episodes instigated,” she notes, suggested that Antonin Scalia was the funniest justice, with Stephen Breyer coming in a faraway second.”

New to the Collection: Learning From Law Firm Leaders

This 2012 title from Susan G. Manch with Michelle C. Nash is a short but fairly comprehensive for the subject new addition to our collection. Learning From Law Firm Leaders, Amazon Link & Catalog Link, is written with the young attorney in mind and has a dual focus of instructing on how to understand firm leaders and how to propel and prepare one's self for seeking a position in firm leadership. Below is a condensed version of the table of contents. The book can be found at the call number - KF 318. M28 2012

Chapter 1 - Followership: Looking at Leadership Through a Different Lense
Chapter 2 - Motivation to Lead
Chapter 3 - Paths to Leadership
Chapter 4 - The Core Competencies of Leadership
Chapter 5 - Knowledge and Skill Mastery and Openness to Learning
Chapter 6 - Effective Communication and Interpersonal Style
Chapter 7 - Mentorship
Chapter 8 - Vision
Chapter 9 - Leadership and Diversity
Chapter 10 - Succession Planning
Chapter 11 - A Model Leadership Development Program
Chapter 12 - Advice for Next-Generation Leaders and Their Firms
Chapter 13 - Concluding Thoughts

New Faculty Publications on SSRN

Four more recent articles by Loyola University New Orleans College of Law faculty were distributed earlier this through with the most recent issue of our SSRN Research Paper Series. These articles, and other publications by the College of Law faculty, are available on The College of Law's SSRN Page, where you can also subscribe to our Research Paper Series and receive links to new articles by our faculty. The current issue is also archived, below: