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NAPLA 37th Annual Conference:

A New Haven for Pre-Law Advising

 

Location Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
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. 
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.

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

 

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.

 

Accommodations Arrangements have been made with several New Haven area hotels for reduced rates.
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.

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

 

 

Copyright © 2009  Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors. All rights reserved.

All Pre-Law Advisors from non-profit educational institutions are
granted permission to use this product. Technical support is not available through NAPLA
.

Please contact Dom DeLeo with comments and suggestions at deleo@bc.edu