The Law Student's Pocket Mentor: From Surviving To Thriving

The Law Student's Pocket Mentor: From Surviving To Thriving by Ann L. Iijima
As the ideal companion for law students, The Law Student's Pocket Mentor: From Surviving to Thriving guides students from the summer before starting law school straight through to their first clerking experience. It is a practical, step-by-step guide Read more >

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  • Author(s): Professor Ann L. Iijima
  • Media: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • Publish Date: 08/08/2007
  • Publication Frequency: N/A
  • Offer Number/PIN: 0735540349
  • ISBN: 9780735540347
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  • Product Line: Aspen Publishers
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As the ideal companion for law students, The Law Student's Pocket Mentor: From Surviving to Thriving guides students from the summer before starting law school straight through to their first clerking experience. It is a practical, step-by-step guide that uses exercises, worksheets, and checklists to help students identify their needs, plan strategies, and organize their efforts to maximize success in law school.

This pocket companion offers all of the essentials students need for success:

  • It is comprehensive in coverage:
    • covers essential academic skills (e.g., reading and briefing cases, taking notes in class, outlining, writing exams)
    • provides career preparation skills (e.g., building strong resumes, choosing classes)
    • discusses emotional aspects of legal education (e.g., maintaining balance, dealing with grades)
    • addresses special concerns of non-traditional students
  • It is accessible in nature:
    • approaches academic topics in a user-friendly, non-academic style
    • gives a student-eye-view of typical challenges faced by law students, including letters from actual students, narratives, etc.
    • presents skills in a logical, step-by-step manner
    • accounts for and addresses various learning styles
    • provides clear, how-to instructions regarding essential academic skills
    • offers exercises to help students identify challenges, plan strategies, and recognize progress
    • provides ample forms to show students how to best organize their time, brief cases, take class notes, and perform self-diagnoses on their exam answers
  • It has been proven effective:
    • all exercises, techniques, and forms have been student-tested and refined at William Mitchell College of Law

An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at http://www.aspenlawschool.com/iijima

* This book is also available in eBook format at the Kindle Store

  1. Preparing for Law School
  2. Paying for Law School
  3. Preparing for Class
  4. Using Your Learning Style
  5. Getting More Out of Class Discussions
  6. Outlining YourCourses
  7. Doing YourBest on Exams
  8. Dealing with Your Grades
  9. Choosing Your Classes
  10. Extra-curricular Activities
  11. Preparing for Your Career
  12. Non-traditional Students
  13. Maintaining Balance
  14. Your First Law Job
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Professor Ann L. Iijima

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Ann L. Iijima is the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Programs at William Mitchell College of Law.

Education
B.A.,1977, Carleton College
J.D., 1985, University of Minnesota Law School

Experience
William Mitchell College of Law: vice dean, 2006- professor of law, 1995- associate professor of law, 1993-95 assistant professor of law, 1990-93.

Associate, Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis, 1986-90.

Clerk, Hon. Gerald W. Heaney, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Duluth, Minn., 1985-86.

Admitted: Minnesota, 1986.

Background

Although Professor Iijima continues teaching traditional doctrinal courses, her research and writing currently focus on issues of legal education, particularly alternatives to traditional law school teaching methods. With the college’s Director of Counseling Services, she developed the Collaborative Legal Studies Program, a program designed to encourage law students to work together on common issues of concern. She developed model curriculum for the ABA’s Council on Legal Education Opportunity. She currently is developing and directing the college’s Compass programs, courses designed to help students improve their academic performance.

Leadership & Service
Member, Advisory Committee on the Rules of the Board on Judicial Standards, Minnesota Supreme Court, Trustee, National Outdoor Leadership School, Member, Carleton College Alumni Council, Chair, Labor & Empl. Section, Minnesota State Bar Assn., 1995-96.

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