NAPLA will not hold its annual conference in 2012 because the Pre-law Advisors' National Council will hold a conference in Washington, D.C. from Tuesday, June 12 to Saturday, June 16, 2012. At the PLANC conference NAPLA will hold its business meeting including elections of NAPLA officers. For conference details, please use this link: http://www.planc.org/conference/

Hope to see you there!

Karen Clemence
President, NAPLA

Class of 2010 Selected Findings, James G, Leipold, NALP

Why the Job Market is Changing, William Henderson, Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington

National Jurist: Rankings, Mar 2011, William Henderson, Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington

LSAC Update, Anne Brandt, LSAC

Policy Guidance on Emerging Technologies, Salome Heyward, Disability Management Consultants

Revised ADA Regulations, Salome Heyward, Disability Management Consultants

NAPLA PEP Talk Suggestion, Allyson Lowe, Joe Campion, Sandi DiMola, and Vielka Holness

The official starting time is Tuesday, June 7, at 10 a.m.; the conference closes on Friday, June 10, at 1 p.m. Please note that the Wednesday, June 8, program begins early at 8:00 a.m.and involves travel in NAPLA buses. If you plan to travel with us on Wednesday after the morning workshop session at Suffolk (and we hope you do), please be registered and prepared to board buses at 9:15 a.m.; buses return to the Omni Hotel for dinner .

Special Plenary on Friday morning

We hope you will plan to stay with us to attend special programs on Friday morning. In addition to Anne Brandt's LSAC Update, we will offer a special plenary session:

"Is the Law School Bubble Bursting?" There is a growing frustration among law students and law school graduates about the lack of opportunities for legal employment during the current economic downturn. Many are demanding greater transparency in the availability of legal employment information, so that the decision to invest in a legal education can be made with full disclosure of employment opportunities. The American Bar Association's Questionnaire Committee is considering recommendations on how the ABA law school questionnaire can be used as a tool to require disclosure of employment data for recent law school graduates. This panel of leading experts will discuss questions that go to the core of how pre-law advisors advise students and alumni who are considering the legal profession.

Panelists include: Arthur R. Gaudio, Chair of the ABA Questionnaire Committee and Dean of Western New England School of Law, William D. Henderson, Professor of Law and Director on the Global Legal Profession, Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law, James G. Leipold, Executive Director, Association for Legal Career Professions (NALP), and Camille A. Nelson, Dean of Suffolk University Law School. The panel discussion will be moderated by Jerome Organ, Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis).

NAPLA 2011 conference topics include:

• Preparing Underrepresented Pre-Law Students
• Moving Beyond Challenging Conversations
• Pre-Law Web Information at Your Fingertips
• Alumni Assistance in Pre-Law Programs
• Mock Admissions
• Strategies for Requesting Accommodations
• Personal Statements
• Reading for the Law
• Born Digital
• Hot Topics (discussion with law school admissions officers)
• Law School Alternative Admission Programs
• New England Exposure (admissions panel from area schools)
• Managing and Meeting the Needs of Your Pre-Law Advisees
• Finding the Words
• Social Media and Law School Admissions
• The Legal Job Market
• Financing a Legal Education

Conference Co-Chairs

Karen Clemence (clemenck@lafayette.edu )

Johnny Pryor (jdpryor@iupui.edu)