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Dean David Jaffee shares exciting news about a new podcast series on law student mental health.  Below is his announcement:

“I write to share with you a new podcast series, The Path to Law Student Well-Being,sponsored by the Law School Assistance Committee to the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP).

The inaugural two-part episode is available here, just below the live Twitter Town Hall taking place this Wednesday.

This episode features two short conversations with Dean & Professor of Law Michael Hunter Schwartz of the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law and Professor Larry Krieger of the Florida State University College of Law and is moderated by Professor Susan Wawrose of the University of Dayton School of Law.

• In the first part of this episode, Dean Schwartz and Professor Krieger suggest ways individual faculty members can notice, engage with, and support students they suspect are in distress.
• The second part identifies steps faculty can take to promote student well-being through their teaching in the classroom and includes simple actions for law school administrators.

Read the entire article here.

If you’re a 3L and don’t have a job lined up for after bar exam results come in, you need to develop a strategy to help you land your first job out of law school. Here are five things to keep in mind when making a plan to find your first job with a J.D.

1. MAKE YOUR JOB SEARCH YOUR TOP PRIORITY

Do you like listening to podcasts? Check out “The Law School Toolbox Podcast: Tools for Law Students from 1L to the Bar Exam, and Beyond” by Alsion Monahan and Lee Burgess – Law School Toolbox, LLC.

“The Law School Toolbox podcast is an engaging show for law students about law school, the bar exam, legal careers, and life. Each week, we offer practical tips and advice on academic matters, careers, and more. The Law School Toolbox podcast is hosted by opinionated law school and bar exam experts Alison Monahan and Lee Burgess. You might not always agree with us, but we guarantee you won’t be bored listening! Our goal is to impart useful, actionable advice in an entertaining manner. Join us! And, if you have an opinion on the show, please drop by and offer a review. We’re here to help, and we’d love to hear from you!”

It is available for free through iTunes and accessible here.

The Free Law Project, a California-based non-profit, posted every free written opinion and order available on PACER, the federal courts’ document portal. In total, this new collection contains 3.4 million documents from 1.5 million federal district and bankruptcy cases dating back to 1960, the Project explained in a blog post published Tuesday on the organization’s website.

“Today’s news represents a huge milestone for the project and moves the project into a new stage where we’re not only focused on people’s experience while using PACER, but we’re now also focused on providing data to startups, researchers, journalists, lawyers, and the public via our website,” Michael Lissner, executive director of the Free Law Project, said in an email.

Over the past year, the Free Law Project “crawled” PACER, an automated process to collect web-based information, to build this collection. They also used a process called optical character recognition (OCR) to read and parse upwards of 400,000 scanned documents to extract the text. These documents are available on the CourtListener website.

This work was made possible by a grant from the Department of Labor and two professors studying employment law at Georgia State University. Charlotte Alexander says she and her colleague were interested in analyzing every federal case where a worker is described as an employee or an independent contractor.

Read the entire article here.

The library will celebrate Law Day on Monday, May 1, 2017. Please stop by the 4^th Floor circulation desk for some cake and coffee at 2:30 p.m. while you peruse the Law Day book display!

As part of Law Day, there will also be a FREE screening of the documentary The Loving Story at the Central Library Neil Morgan Auditorium on Thursday, May 4, 2017 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal will lead off the event with an explanation of the laws in effect at the time and how this case forever changed American law and society.

See all details and registration at:  https://loving2017.eventbrite.com

 For more information on Law Day, click here.

Please stop by the 4th floor library tomorrow, April 14, 2017 at 2 p.m. to celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s birthday with cake and coffee.

Don’t forget to give a birthday present to yourself! Complete the annual library survey for a chance to win a $50 Knotty Barrel gift card and various prizes!

Access the survey here.

The deadline to enter the Library Week photo contest is 5 p.m. today. Submit your photos for a chance to win a $50 Visa gift card!

Happy National Library Week!

Stop by the 4th Floor Circulation desk this week and tell us what your librarian is an expert in. You will be entered into a drawing for a movie night package prize!

Please do not forget to include your  name and email address.

In honor of National Library Week, we will celebrate with events every day!

Starting next Monday and lasting all week, we will have a box where you can submit a “My librarian is an expert in…” card at the circulation desk for an entry in a drawing for various prizes. There will be multiple winners drawn.

Also lasting all week is a student survey on library services. After completing the anonymous survey, you can enter to win a $50 gift card to Knotty Barrel! Please participate in the survey because we depend on your feedback to improve the library. You may access the survey here.

The library also invites all students to participate in our very first photo contest! Please submit a photo that portrays the National Library Week theme of “Libraries Transform”. The winner chosen for best photograph will receive a $50 Visa gift card, will be announced to students, faculty, and staff by email, and will be recognized in the TJSL Library’s social media and publications.*

*Contestants must submit all required documents sent in the email announcement along with your photo for a valid entry. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 5pm.

Do you need help with citations? Do you need help with using the Bluebook in general? Professor Marie Templo will be holding Bluebook Training to answer all of your questions on the following dates:

Thursday, March 30, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Friday, March 31, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Monday, April 17, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 20, 2017 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Monday, April 24, 2017 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Monday, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Bring your lunch and all of your Bluebook questions! Please register here.