November Meeting: Legal Education Looking Forward

At our November meeting, Caroline Hatton, a student at Seton Hall Law School and the Symposium Editor of Seton Hall Law Review, will give a review of speeches made at a recent symposium she organized on the future of legal education.  The distinguished speakers included deans and professors from several law schools, judges and practicing attorneys, as well as Paulette Brown, the President-Elect of the American Bar Association, who gave the keynote address entitled “Maintaining the Relevancy of a Law School Education in an Evolving Profession.”

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 12:00 noon

Place: Prudential Insurance Company of America
751 Broad Street
Newark NJ

Cost:  Members $15.00, Students $7.50, Non-Members $20.00

RSVP: Anne Shulman by Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Community Service Project: The Committee will be collecting canned and boxed food for St. John’s Food Kitchen and Pantry in Newark.  

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association

Mail to:  Anne Shulman
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland Perretti
Headquarters Plaza
PO Box 1981
Morristown, NJ 07960

email: ashulman@riker.com or call 973-538-0800, ext 7482.

NJLLA Flyer for November 2013 meeting

Subject Experts Need Not Apply?

Although not a discussion of subject expertise for academic law librarians, Todd Gilman’s article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.’s, still raises many relevant questions.