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    8
    Feb

    NYLS To Close Thursday, February 9, Due To Winter Storm – Law School building and Library will be open

    Posted by Grace Lee | Comments Off on NYLS To Close Thursday, February 9, Due To Winter Storm – Law School building and Library will be open

    This evening, it was announced that the New York City public schools will be closed tomorrow due to expected significant snowfall. As a result, New York Law School is closing its administrative offices tomorrow and all of tomorrow’s classes, meetings, and events are cancelled. Despite these cancellations, the Law School building will be open for […]

    Category : Law School
    5
    Jul

    Bar Study Update

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on Bar Study Update

    Extended Library study hours begin on Tuesday, July 5. On Sundays thru Thursdays, the Library will remain open until midnight. Starting on July 11, classroom space available outside the library for bar studying will be limited before 5:30 p.m. The Library understands that many of you like to study in small groups and occasionally converse.  To […]

    Category : Bar, Law School, Library Information
    9
    Jun

    At Your Service this Summer

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on At Your Service this Summer

    Need research help at your summer job or externship?  Let us know—we’d love to help!  Give us a call (212.431.2332), email (reference@nyls.edu) or text (917.300.1933) us, or drop by the reference desk until 8:00 pm weekdays (6:00 pm on Fridays), and noon-6:00 pm on weekends.

    Category : Law School, Library Information, Research
    7
    Jun

    Law School 411

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on Law School 411

    The study and practice of law has frequently been described as encompassing both the scholarly and popular aspects of cultural life. The Mendik Library’s Law School 411 LibGuide provides an online multimedia bibliography to students thinking about law school as well as to those currently enrolled. It features books, movies and websites dedicated to the […]

    Category : Blogs, Electronic Legal Research, Law School, Library Information
    30
    Apr

    Free E-Book Provides Overview of Emerging Law Office Technology

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on Free E-Book Provides Overview of Emerging Law Office Technology

    The former director of the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center  recently published an e-book, Law Practice Technology: An Introduction for Law Students, that introduces law students to current law office technology.  Targeting law students interested in starting their own practice, the e-book covers cloud computing, calendaring, security, training, document management, speech input to create documents, […]

    Category : Law, Law School, Research
    19
    May

    Back to Carnegie Hall!

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on Back to Carnegie Hall!

    Congratulations to the graduating class of 2014 and their upcoming Commencement Exercises—the Law School’s 122nd—on May 21st! This year’s ceremony is particularly meaningful because it marks a return to Carnegie Hall, site of the Law School’s first Commencement, on June 7, 1892, and those for the following twenty-one years (through 1913).   Commencement ceremonies enable […]

    Category : Events, Law School
    16
    Aug

    The Bluebook App

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on The Bluebook App

    Have you tried the Bluebook app yet?  It’s available for iPads, iPhones, and iPods (with an Android version probably in the works we’re told). The app supports full-text searching, browsing, highlighting, bookmarking, and annotating.  Among its features, the continuous display of the Table of Contents and hyperlinking of cross-references make navigation a breeze.  You don’t have […]

    Category : Law Practice, Law School, Research
    3
    May

    NYLS Commencement Through the Centuries

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on NYLS Commencement Through the Centuries

    An early congratulations to the graduating class of 2013!  May 19th will mark New York Law School’s 121st Commencement Exercises.  This year’s ceremony will be held at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.  Did you know that in 1899 the graduation ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall? Commencement ceremonies give us time to celebrate our new […]

    Category : Events, Law School
    14
    Feb

    Enter the Supreme Court Challenge

    Posted by Farrah Nagrampa | Comments Off on Enter the Supreme Court Challenge

    Bloomberg Law and the SCOTUSblog are offering cash prizes to the top three student teams in a competition to predict the outcomes of six Supreme Court cases and six cert. petitions that will be considered by the Court in March.  First prize — $3,500; second prize — $1,500; third prize — $1,000.  There will be […]

    Category : Courts, Law School
    7
    Feb

    Racial Justice Project Files Amicus Brief with United States Supreme Court

    Posted by library | Comments Off on Racial Justice Project Files Amicus Brief with United States Supreme Court

    Congratulations to the NYLS Racial Justice Project, which recently filed an amicus brief on behalf of Congressman John Lewis in Shelby County v. Holder. The case challenges the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and will be argued before the Supreme Court on February 27. The brief attests to the […]

    Category : Law School, Legal News
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