This webinar will focus on how law schools can better prepare students for practice. The presenters will discuss key findings from Bloomberg Law’s survey on law school preparedness, highlighting opportunities for law school innovation, and share data-driven suggestions that can help law school faculty and staff better reach their students.

The role of the legal information professional continues to evolve, and knowledge of current technologies is critical to professional growth and success. Law librarians are expected to understand and be involved in leveraging and implementing advanced technologies. This professional development webinar will increase your understanding of key technologies currently at play, focusing on SSO/SAML, APIs, data analytics, and visualization.

For 75 years the LSAT has been required for admission to U.S. law schools. While studies consistently show the LSAT is the single best predictor of law school success, and the LSAT’s predictive validity is consistent across all demographic groups, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) sees an opportunity to create an alternative pathway with the proven validity and reliability that schools and students need; an alternative pathway that meets potential students earlier with a holistic approach to building the skills and support needed to help them define and pursue their educational goals. LSAC believes its new pathway to law school – provisionally named the LSAC Legal Education Program – will increase law school candidates and matriculants and ensure a new age of law and justice in the U.S.

This session will feature a moderator and four speakers. Speakers will discuss the concepts of truth telling and reconciliation and will describe ways in which librarians can support the research and work of these unique forms of justice.

This program will move beyond the 2020 case and discuss how Georgia reacted to its loss, including the status of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated today regarding copyright. It will also look at how the decision affected publication of law in other jurisdictions in the United States and will look at ongoing efforts to free the law from copyright restrictions to make basic legal texts available to all who need them.

This training will define important terms, explore risk factors, and help participants develop strategies for preventing and addressing both vicarious trauma and burnout. Using case studies from law libraries to guide the discussion, attendees will learn self-care techniques, healthy coping skills, and receive tips for working with victims of trauma. Training in dealing with vicarious trauma can, in turn, create a balanced work environment and minimize the risk of re-traumatizing yourself and others.

This session will include an introduction to and description of course content, a discussion of ways to gain the support of administrators, and reflections on teaching these courses.

Panelists from across the field of librarianship (government, firm, and academic) will discuss how they engineered, collaborated, and participated in their own writing projects. Speakers will also provide general tips for first-time writers, including how to get started and finding time to write.

In this session speakers provide their own channels as examples and share the benefits and challenges of this popular video platform. Tips will be given for attendees interested in setting up or updating their own channels as well as ways to improve and track engagement by calculating ROI of YouTube content.

Panelists, including a member of the coram nobis legal team, the documentary filmmaker, and a government law librarian, will discuss the manipulation of information and legal argument to justify the government’s World War II actions and the ethical implications of those actions; the use of legal research and archival resources that uncovered the egregiousness behind Korematsu's original conviction; how primary sources and legal research can advance justice for all; and the parallels to modern incidents fueled by racism and xenophobia.