Thursday, August 21 (casual dress)
8:30 · Check-in and Continental Breakfast
Howard O. Hunter Atrium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
9:00 · Welcome by Dean David Partlett
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
9:30 · Welcome by Lynell Cadray, Assistant Dean of Admissions; Katherine Brokaw, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
9:45 · Faculty Remarks - Associate Dean Polly Price (introduced by Dean Partlett)
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
10:00 · Break
10:15 · Who’s Who Around the Law School
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
Vice Dean James Hughes will introduce law school administrators who will explain how their departments will work with you to support you during law school. Panel will include: Associate Dean Susan Carter; Registrar Celeste Katz; Assistant Deans Katherine Brokaw, Ben Chapman and Janet Hutchinson; Director of Administration Kevin Moody.
11:15 · Box lunches and campus tours with Orientation Leaders
Enjoy a box lunch and tour the law school, the clinic offices and parts of the main campus in small groups led by one or two Orientation leaders (upper-level law students)
1:30 · Introduction to Legal Methods (new 1Ls only)
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
Your Legal Methods professors will discuss techniques for reading and briefing cases. Before this session, you are encouraged to review the materials located at
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/fileadmin/current_students/Hynes_v_New_York_Central_Railroad.pdf
and prepare a brief for the Hynes case contained in the materials.
2:45 · Break
3:00 - 4:00 Student Life Panel Discussion
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
A panel of second and third-year law students will make recommendations on how to get through your first year of law school.
Moderator: Mark Richardson, 3L, President of the Student Bar Association
Panelists: Carson Bacon, Brent Douglas, Jason Esteves, Brandon Goldberg, Graham Lee, Adam Linkner, Sonette Magnus, Thea van der Zalm.
4:30 - 5:30 Introduction to the Law Library
Tull Auditorium, Third Floor, Gambrell Hall
Director of Library Services Mark Engsberg and some of the law librarians will explain the services available to you in the MacMillan Law Library and how to get started using those resources.
5:30 pm - Meet and Greet at the Law Library
MacMillan Law Library, main floor
Enjoy light refreshments and meet the staff of the law library.
Please join the Office of Student Affairs and several student organizations for a multicultural food fair and tasting on Bacardi Plaza from 6:30 - 7:30 pm.
Sponsored by PMBR and the Office of Diversity and Community Initiatives
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