Sponsored by the
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Tuesday April 24, 2012
Shift This!: A Paradigm for Integrating Law School & Law Firm Patent Research
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern (10:00 am Pacific)
Description:
One of the primary responsibilities law librarians have in the legal profession is in teaching legal research to law school students to prepare them to take and pass state and national bar examinations. Those law librarians who have students who plan to enter the patent bar have an additional responsibility in this regard. But are these newly accredited lawyers prepared to practice? Historically law firm librarians charged with instructing new attorneys have noted these new lawyers are not ready for the demands of legal research. Why is there a divide? The purpose of this program is to bring the professors from law schools together with law firm librarians, law school students and lawyers, to explore the reasons for the divergence and to create a solution,- a paradigm for patent legal research education. Attending law librarians will take with them an understanding of how to bridge the gap between law school legal research preparation and practice, the reasons for it and the corrective measures they should take to help new attorneys begin patent practice confident in their legal research skills.
Learning Outcomes:
Law Librarians who teach legal research at law schools and law firms will be prepared to understand the common and dissimilar roles, goals and needs attending to each other, as well as those of law school students and practicing lawyers.
Attendees will learn how to integrate respective pedagogy by foremost Law Librarian in order to best prepare lawyers for patent practice. Resulting in a paradigm of best practices for the profession.
Course fee: FREE
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