November Gets Hairy For Philanthropic Law Students

Sometimes it’s easy for law students to get caught in their academic bubble and forget about bigger issues. One solution involves keeping a thick, itchy and aesthetically questionable reminder right under your nose at all times.
That’s exactly what two Cardozo

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All I Want For X-mas is a Summer Job

Coming out of the 1L Office of Career Services (OCS) orientation, I realized that I need to grow up…fast. Working hard at school isn’t the only thing I need to do. I also need to find a summer legal internship.

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Administration Confronts Decrease in Course Evaluations

It’s been three years since Cardozo’s course evaluations traded in their Scantron sheets and No. 2 pencils for a more modern approach: the uniform online evaluations that put students a few clicks and keystrokes from opining on any professor or

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The iPhone’s Siri: The Solution to Surviving Law School?

 

Apple hit the ground running when they unleashed the iPhone 4s, newly equipped with Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant that organizes your agenda and gives you location-based answers to your queries. When prompted with any question or demand, Siri is

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NYC Moves from “Secure Communities” to a Just Society

On November 3, 2011 the New York City Council passed a new piece of legislation designed to limit the City’s collaboration with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. From now on, the City will no longer detain individuals who

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Q&A with Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Kate Shaw

When Justice John Paul Stevens was asked, “Is there anything more that the faculty and staff [of Northwestern University Law School] could do to help place more Northwestern Law clerks with your colleagues?” Stevens quickly retorted, “Sure, that’s easy.  Educate

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RALSA Joins Cardozo Community

Cardozo is famous for its diversity: students are graduates of more than 130 universities from all around the world. This year, another gem was added to the great number of student-run clubs and associations representing a wide assortment of cultural

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Make 1L Work: Taking Full Advantage of the Office of Career Services

If you thought Halloween was scary, then you clearly have not been keeping up with news of our legal job market!
And, even though most of you 1Ls are trying to focus your efforts on keeping up (or catching up) with

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Skip the Commercial Outlines: Do It Yourself

Before I came to law school, I thought outlines were nothing more than a table of contents, listing the topics covered in a particular textbook. I quickly learned how important outlines are to every law student as soon as I

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Get Used to it, Law School is Full of Loss

In the days leading up to my first law school exam, Elements of Law, I fell in love with my textbook. In public, we did everything happy couples usually do. We got coffee together. We ate together. We even slept

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