Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s March 21, 2013 I.Welcome II.Registration Process III.Graduation Requirements IV.Aside from Requirements, What Should I Take? V.Bar Subjects VI.Areas of Concentration (including “generalist recommendations”) VII.Learn about Clinical Opportunities VIII. Learn about Academic Extra- Curricular Opportunities IX.Questions

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Registration Process: Upper-Level Students Will Go First. 1L Registration Opens at 8am sharp on Thursday, April 4. Watch your . Requirements: 91 hours, 2.20 GPA Degree Works can help you track. -- finish first year (with at least a C in LRRW) -- App Ad (at least a C) -- Seminar (at least a C) -- Capstone Trial Ad (at least a C) 1 of the 4 Clinics Bus Trans Drafting Full-semester Judicial or Agency Externship -- Perspective – One course Marked with an asterisk on schedule grid

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s The perspective requirement reflects the College of Law’s conviction that legal education should expand students’ horizons by connecting their studies to the traditions of the liberal arts (i.e. the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences). Perspective courses examine law and lawyers primarily from points of view that are significantly different from the doctrinal and policy analysis taught in standard upper-level courses on various areas of practice… Perspective courses look across doctrinal boundaries, engaging the student in a conversation about the relationships between law and other disciplines; they explore the nature of the American legal system by contrasting it with other legal systems; they discuss the ways in which law and lawyers both shape and are shaped by the liberal arts and the wider culture.

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Lists of Perspective Courses on Web under Academics, Course Schedules and Student Resources

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s No “double-dipping.” To satisfy the perspective requirement and the seminar requirement, you need either: one perspective class and a seminar, OR two seminars, at least one of which is a perspective.

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Aside from Requirements, What Should I Take? Four Good Questions: What must I know to be a competent, practice-ready lawyer? What courses will assist me in passing the Bar? What courses are specific to the area in which I intend to practice? What courses will I enjoy and learn from?

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Aside from Requirements, What Should I Take? Four Bad Questions: Is it at a good time? Will I be called on? Will the exam be easy or hard? Does the professor give any low grades?

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Bar Courses Multistate Exams in WV Subjects listed in Booklet Check with the state where you plan to take the bar about different subjects tested or required law school courses

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Areas of Concentration A non-exhaustive list in booklet “Course ads” on Web on “course classifieds” page Suggestions for the Generalist

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Clinics Clinical Law Program Gen Civil Practice Group Child-Family Adv. Group Immigration Group Innocence Project Low Income Tax Assistance U.S. Supreme Court Clinic Entrepreneurship Clinic Land Use and Sustainability Clinic

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s For Credit Extracurriculars Law Review Moot Court Lugar Jessup

Registration Meeting for Rising 2L’s Questions? Thanks for coming.