Professional Identity Formation

The formation process

What characteristics are important in law?

Self-Reflection

Meditation or serious thought about one’s character, actions and motives.

Resilience

The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

How do you define success?

Purpose Resilience

What type of lawyer do I want to be?

1L’s

12L’s

2

3L’s

3

Graduation

4

Criminal

Transactional

Social Justice

Civil

What is your purpose?

OSEL

Heather LambertExternship Liaison

Chrissy Brown Assistant Clinical

ProfessorCoordinator of Skills

and Experiential Learning

Erica HingleAdministrative

Assistant

Skills Courses 101

• Requirement: Attend 8 Skills courses

• Do not impact your GPA

• On your transcript

• Free

• Take as many as you want

• Free

• Each graduation the student with the most skills courses earns a skills certificate.

• Local Rules = syllabus for skills courses

• Skills instructors are practitioners from the field.

• Some courses are simulation based some are lecture based.

• Free

• 3 hours long

• Skills opportunities also include attending CLE’s

• We have some online courses offered in April

• Browse the Skills calendar online or via Blackboard

• Some skills courses require an assignment usually a practical drafting skill or self reflection.

• Some skills courses are divided and inserted into regular classes.

• Free

• Future employers review transcript

• Great way to meet practitioners in the field and network

• Skills classes are offered for 2 and 3L’s

Effective 2014

• Requirement: Must attain certain skills. • Client Interviewing• Negotiation• Cross- cultural communication;• Law office management/Professionalism

• Practice Tracks or Pathways

1L’s

12L’s

2

3L’s

3

Graduation

4

Criminal

Transactional

Social Justice

Civil

Skills Pathways

• Torts, contracts, property, evidence, maritime, medmalCivil

• Criminal law, evidence, Criminal Procedure, prosecutor, defenseCriminal

• Contracts, property, technology certificate, healthcare, negotiation, real estate

Transactional

• All of the above, Law and Poverty, Clinic, non-profits, vulnerable populations, immigration, worker’s rights

Social Justice

Civil

• Client Interview

• Drafting the complaint

• Discovery practice

• Motion practice

• Negotiation through settlement

• Cross-cultural communication and interpersonal skils

• Trial Skills

• Law Office Management & Professionalism

Criminal

• Client Interview

• Preliminary Hearing

• Factual Investigation

• Negotiation through plea deal

• Cross-cultural communication and Interpersonal skills

• Motion Drafting

• Trial Skills

• Law Office Management and Professionalism

Transactional

• Client Interview

• Drafting Articles of Incorporation and Forming LLC

• Demand Letter

• Drafting lease agreement

• Drafting contract for employment

• Cross-cultural communication and Interpersonal skills

• Negotiation through deal lawyering

• Law Office Management and Professionalism

Social Justice

• Client interview

• Introduction to Social Justice Lawyering from the Movement Perspective

• The Complaint & Injunctive Relief, Drafting & Discussion

• Court Observation

• Cross-cultural communication and Inter-personal Skills

• Settlement Negotiations and Community Lawyerings

• Community Engagement

• Law Office Management and Professionalism

Get ready for skill courses!

Externships

Externships 101

• Must apply

• Internal interview with OSEL

• Interview with the Field Placement Office

• Once selected you are presumed obligated

• We then register you in the L900 Externship class

• The class meets every other week

Externships 101

• Receive feedback through journals

• Learn timekeeping

• Create a writing sample through a 25 page portfolio

• Gain experience

• Learn about an area of law

• Develop skills

Externships 101

• Must apply

• It is not to early to begin thinking about your 2L year

• Browse Externship Opportunities

• Attend an informational session

• Meet with Heather Lambert

• Update your resume

• Perfect each cover letter

• Follow the 1L Calendar

• Do not forget to apply