CUA Career Services: Careers For Lawyers: Life After Law School careers for Lawyers Life After Law School. courses such as legal history, politicalscience and business law in less populated areas district attorneys may also http://careers.cua.edu/HANDOUTS/Lawcarer.htm
Extractions: Careers for Lawyers: Life After Law School Law practice is so diverse that it is difficult to describe what the "typical" lawyer does. Each lawyer works with different clients and different legal problems. However, all lawyers must share some basic legal skills: Many lawyers develop expertise in a particular field of law. Others, especially the sole practitioner, must be able to handle a variety of problems. However, there are lawyers in large firms who maintain general practices, as well as lawyers in small firms who concentrate on one particular legal issue. Some of the major specializations are corporate, securities, criminal, tax, and family law. Today, however, new fields of law are developing. Examples include such specialties as immigration, international, environmental, entertainment, civil rights litigation and patent law. About 74 percent of American lawyers are in private practice, most in small, one-person offices and some in large firms. Roughly 13 percent of the profession works for government agencies (including about 10,000 judges), 12 percent works for private industries and associations as salaried lawyers or as managers, and one percent is in legal education. In addition, there are a number of law school graduates who do not have a traditional legal practice, but who have selected to combine law with other disciplines.
Prelaw to succeed in law school and careers in law Gerald E. Kerns, Department of politicalScience; Ph.D., Indiana University; Constitutional Law and political Theory http://www.udayton.edu/~enr-mgt/admission/plaw.html
Extractions: Prelaw provides students with the guidance and academic assistance necessary to prepare them for success in the study of law. This program is directed by the prelaw committee composed of six professors trained in prelaw advising. Law schools discourage students from having a "prelaw" major. At the University of Dayton, therefore, such an undergraduate major is unavailable. Instead, students, upon entering the University, simply declare their interest in prelaw and become members of the prelaw program. They may select a specific major either as incoming first-year students or, with the aid of their prelaw advisers, later in their college careers. In conformity with suggestions from law schools, the prelaw committee recommends that students choose an undergraduate major based on their interests and abilities. Majors that permit electives are preferred over those with a more rigid curriculum. In addition to courses in their majors, prelaw students select classes that help develop those analytical skills and academic abilities necessary to succeed in law school and careers in law. Law schools repeatedly emphasize the mastery of certain skills along with specific knowledge in select areas as prerequisite to legal study. The prelaw committee recommends that students pursue a course of study which emphasizes the following: Skill in the analysis of ideas. Courses in such disciplines as philosophy, literature, mathematics, history and the sciences develop critical, analytical thinking skills.
New Page 1 to service students interested in careers as professional earn a Bachelor of Sciencein Legal examiner, legislative assistant, lobbyist, political office holder http://www.rwu.edu/programs/soj/undergraduateprogram.htm
Extractions: Undergraduate Program Roger Williams University School of Justice Studies One Old Ferry Rd., Bristol, RI 02809 Phone: (401) 254-3021 Fax: (401) 254-3431 School of Justice Studies Home T he School of Justice Studies offers two baccalaureate degree programs: the Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and the Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Studies. Additionally, the School administers the Pre-Law program and the . A Three-plus-Three program is also available for qualified students who want to complete a bachelor degree and the Juris Doctor degree in six years. Criminal Justice Major The Criminal Justice program introduces students to the theory and practice of the United States criminal justice system. The educational program emphasizes the study of the various sub-systems of the criminal justice system. Course emphases include: adult and juvenile crime causation theory; constitutional and criminal law; the courts; institutional and community-base corrections; and municipal and federal law enforcement. Students receive instruction from a wide variety of experienced criminal justice system practitioners, including judges, attorney, justice system agency administrators, as well as a highly-qualified professional academic faculty. Degree Requirements
CDC -- What Can I Do With A Major In Law? experience covering the law and/or political beats Law schools, Masters in LibraryScience, in addition have found an excellent website addressing careers in law http://www.uc.edu/career/Students/law.htm
CSLA Prelaw Society view video programs about the law school admissions process, legal education andcareers, and minority Law Students; attorneys and judges practicing in http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/pol_sci/prelaw.htm
Extractions: Links Relevant to Prelaw Students The Pre-Law Society is a Cal State LA student organization dedicated to providing important information about law school and/or a career in law. The society was recently named ASI's most academically active club. The society's activities include the following: [Special if you are considering law school, come to the Law School Forum, free admission, no preregistration. All in one place: In Los Angeles: Friday 11/6, 2-8 p.m.; Saturday, 11/7, 10-4 at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott, 5855 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles]
Legal Studies Program are taught by practicing attorneys assisted by Pi Sigma Alpha (the National PoliticalScience Honor Society Graduates pursue careers with law offices, insurance http://www.bsu.edu/politicalscience/article/0,1917,16864~7171~3407,00.html
Extractions: Jennifer Ludy Grove, Advisor A Legal Assistant Education Program Approved by the American Bar Association American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Assistants A legal assistant or paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. -August 19, 1997 Commitment to Academic Excellence The Legal Studies program at Ball State University is a top quality academic degree program that provides students a solid undergraduate curriculum to ensure success in the highly competitive paralegal field. Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science, or an Associate of Arts degree and can select either Public Law or the Business/Administration option.
PEER Survey: Michigan DEQ dedicated their lives and careers to protecting science. (science does not = politicalscience!) Lack of purposes with little consideration to sound science. http://www.peer.org/publications/srvy_mi_deq2.html
Extractions: "In my opinion, the biggest problem facing the DEQ is..." WHAT AGENCY LEADERSHIP*SAYS *These individuals indicated that they hold management/supervisory positions at DEQ. "Loss of the mission of environmental advocacy and leadership." "No incentive not to pollute." "The lack of enforcement of environmental laws." "Inadequate enforcement of laws insufficient staff to do appropriate number of inspection; anti-enforcement mentality in Executive Office; insufficient number of attorneys to fully prosecute all deserving cases." "The pattern of substituting political agendas for professional scientific evaluation. This is best evidenced by the Office of Administrative Hearings, which has constantly reinterpreted wetland laws in favor of those wishing to dredge, fill, drain or otherwise destroy wetlands for profit and overruling professional staff’s evaluation and interpretation of clear law. This Office works directly under Director Harding’s control and he works directly under the Governor’s control, therefore reflecting their policies." "Employees of the DEQ do not trust top management of the DEQ to protect Michigan’s natural resources and environment. This agency was created by a pro-business governor by executive order. The person appointed by the Governor to run the new agency was widely despised within the DNR and the environmental community. A natural resource protection agency created in this way and run by pro-business political appointees will never gain the trust of employees that have dedicated their lives and careers to protecting natural resources and the environment."
