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NAPLA
37th Annual Conference:
“A New Haven for Pre-Law Advising”
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| Location |
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
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| Dates |
Wednesday, June 10, to Saturday, June 13, 2009 |
| Registration |
Registration forms for pre-law advisors, law school admissions officers, or commercial exhibitors should be downloaded, completed, and sent to our Conference Registrar, Professor Frank Homer, via U.S. mail or by fax.
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| Payment |
Conference fees can be paid by check or through PayPal via NAPLA’s website (pre-law advisors, law school representatives, commercial exhibitors).
Please remember to mail or fax a conference registration form to Frank Homer, Registrar, noting on the form if the payment was completed through PayPal.
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Program |
The conference program may assist you in making plans. Sessions include:
- Marketing Pre-Law Programs To Administrators, Faculty, and Staff On Your Campus – a joint session with new and veteran pre-law advisors
- Mock Admissions
- Summer Programs for Underrepresented and Economically Disadvantaged Applicants
- Advising Applicants with an LSAT Score Lower Than 150
- Technology and Pre-Law Advising
- On-campus LSAT Prep
- Financing Law School
- Writing Personal Statements, Addenda, Résumés and Follow up Letters
- Building a Prelaw Program and Outreach Pipeline
- Assistance with Personal Statements (Limits and Guidelines) – The Ethics of Personal Statement Review
- Alternative Approaches to Legal Education
- Clinical Programs at Law Schools
- Loan Repayment Assistance Programs
- Disclosure Issues on Law School Applications
- Legal Internship Opportunities for Undergraduate, Pre-Law Students
- Advising Students with Disabilities
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| Program Highlights |
- The conference will begin on June 10 with the New Pre-Law Advisors Workshop for those new to pre-law advising.
- For more experienced advisors, we offer the Veteran Pre-Law Advisors Workshop.
- Yale Law School will host a dinner Wednesday evening at which Dean Harold Koh will welcome us.
- Over the next several days, we will visit Quinnipiac University School of Law and University ofConnecticut School of Law.
- The Law Fair will provide an opportunity for an exchange of information between advisors and law school admissions officers.
- We’ll learn about the latest developments at LSAC .
- We’ll spend an evening at Amarante's Sea Cliff, overlooking the Long Island Sound.
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| Accommodations |
Arrangements have been made with several New Haven area hotels for reduced rates.
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| Travel to Site |
Information about travel to New Haven and about local attractions is available on the Visitor's Gateway pages of Yale's website.
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| Conference Co-Chairs |
Barbara Landress Barbara.Landress@nyu.edu
Cindy Cogdill cfc5@columbia.edu |
| Program Documents
| Reviewing Personal Statements (doc)
Legal Employment Trends for Law School Graduate (ppt)
Loan Repayment Assistance Programs and the College Cost Reductions and Access Act (scroll down to ppt "Slideshow: Tuition, Debt and LRAPs for Pre-law Advisors" on Equal Justice web site)
Proving Your Worth: The Value of a Pre-Law Program to Your College and University (pdf)
LSAC Update (ppt) |
NAPLA Prior Conferences |
| 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| 2007, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006, George Washington School of Law, Washington, D.C. |
| 2005, Fordham School of Law, New York, NY |
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