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SPOTLIGHT ON CAREER SERVICESSPOTLIGHT ON THE LIBRARYBY LISA MEAD, ASSISTANT DEANThe Law School’s Career Services Office has beenresponding aggressively to the dynamic legalmarket of the 90s. Throughout this decade thehiring needs of most legal employers have fluctuateddramatically. Over the last several years, most law firmshave been cautious in hiring new associates, however, inthe past year many firms have begun expanding theirranks again. In fact, in 1998, the California law firm hiringmarket was the strongest it has been in several yearswith the number of first-year associates hired up byeight percent. Legal services offices and governmentagencies have similarly experienced funding cuts andstaffing freezes or reductions in the 90s. During thisunstable period, an increasing number of students andgraduates have also demonstrated interest in non-traditionalopportunities such as tax and marketing consulting,social services, and financial and insurace services.OUR STUDENTSFollowing the trend of exploring diverse interests,more of our students are seeking non-traditional opportunitiesin addition to jobs in law firms, governmentagencies and public interest law offices. To more adequatelyaddress the changing market as well as theinterests of our students, the Law School has continuedto diversify the Career Services Office. We have added asecond attorney-counselor to our staff, Lori Shead 95,and we have expanded our resource library to includemore information about non-traditional opportunities.We have also increased the variety of workshop andtraining opportunities provided to students. With theadvancements in information technology, we are nowsharing career opportunities and job search informationwith students via e-mail, and the students are selectinginterviews with employers via the world wide web. Wehave also placed a greater emphasis on encouraging andsupporting students gaining practical educational experiencesand academic credit through internships injudges’ chambers, government agencies, and publicinterest law offices.In addition to the assistance the staff is providing tostudents, we highly value the long-standing USC LawSchool tradition of graduate support and involvement inour programming. We hope you will consider helpingour current students and new graduates by participatingin or utilizing the following services:Career Panels & Training Workshops are conducted forstudents throughout the school year and the speakers areselected predominantly from USC Law School graduates.Alumni Mock Interview Program is conducted inearly fall to assist students in preparing for on-campusinterviews.Alumni-Student MentorProgram coordinated bythe Development andGraduate Relations Office,provides students with anopportunity to have lunchwith a lawyer practicing ina field similar to the student’sdesired practice area.The Law School encouragesgraduates to providemore educational andmentoringopportunities for theLisa Meadstudent(s) with whom theyare matched.On-Campus Interviews are conducted twice a year,spring and fall. We invite large and small firms, corporations,government agencies, public service organizationsas well as other employers to participate in theseinterview programs to hire summer help or newattorneys.Resume Collections are conducted free of charge foremployers who, based on their specific hiring needs,would prefer to receive student resumes collected byour staff.Currently Available Positions are advertised free ofcharge to employers. Employers may post availablepositions for students, new graduates, lateral hires, inhousecounsel, public service, and non-traditional jobopportunities. These postings are disseminated by ouroffice on a regular basis.OUR GRADUATESThe Law School also has a strong tradition of continuingservice to its graduates. The Career Services Officemaintains this valuable relationship by providing anarray of services such as:The Graduate Employment Bulletin, mailed out eachmonth, includes a variety of job listings for attorneys.The Resource Library, provides the most up-to-datejob listings and career resource information.Reciprocity Agreements with other ABA-approvedlaw schools.Resume and Cover Letter Review, in addition toCareer Counseling Appointments.Please let us know how we can help you and, as youdetermine your hiring needs for summer or part-timelaw clerks, and full-time, part-time or temporary attorneys,please consider using the Career Services Office asa resource to facilitate the recruitment of highly qualifiedindividuals.BY BRIAN RAPHAEL, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,GABRIEL & MATILDA BARNETT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND THE ASA V. CALL LAW LIBRARYNew Library NameLast fall, the Law School Library wasrenamed the Gabriel and MatildaBarnett Information TechnologyCenter and The Asa V. Call LawLibrary. The new name recognizesthe generosity of Matilda Barnett,who presented the Law School lastyear with a $1 million gift subject totrust. The gift was given to honorher late husband, Gabriel Barnett,who attended USC and the LawSchool from 1922 to 1924. The newname of the Library also reflects theimportance of and the need for bothelectronic and traditional (print)sources of legal and non-legal informationin this technological age.Dunning Foundation GiftOver the years, the Dunning Foundationhas provided generous supportto the Library and Law School,endowingboth studentscholarshipsand a vitalbook endowment,whichwas created in1995 to helpbuild upon theLibrary’sexisting printcollection.Brian Raphael The DunningFoundationhas also generously funded manytechnology projects in the LawLibrary and the Law School. InDecember 1999, the Dunning Foundationcontinued its tradition ofphilanthropy to the Law School bypresenting the school with a gift of$88,000. A substantial amount ofthis gift went to increase the DunningBook Endowment, bringing itscorpus to $200,000. The remainderof the gift will be used this summerto create an additional multimediaclassroom, complete with aninstructor’s computer, a ceilingmounteddata projector, speakers, aVCR, a compact disk player, a cassettedeck, and a permanent transparencyprojector. As in the otherclassrooms renovated with instructionaltechnology, professors teachingin this classroom can control theequipment by a wireless mouse andan easy to use LCD touch panellocated at the instructor’s desk. Agrowing number of faculty membersat the Law School are using classroominstructional technology for avariety of purposes, including Powerpointpresentations, showinginstructional and interactive videos,as well as online demonstrations.The LawLibraryproudlydisplays itsnew name.24 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200025
SPOTLIGHT ON CLINICAL PROGRAMSIT’S NEW . . . IT’S NEWSThe variety of clinical programsavailable to USCLaw School studentsenriches their course of study. Inaccordance with the State Bar ofCalifornia’s student certificationprogram, live-client clinics allowlaw students to represent clientsin state and federal courts underthe supervision of clinical facultymembers Michael Brennan, LeeCampbell, Carrie Hempel, DeniseMeyer, Noel Ragsdale, and StaceyTurner. During the fall of 1999,more than 100 students participatedin the Law School’s clinics.BUSINESS LEGAL ADVICE CLINICDirector: Professor Noel RagsdaleThis year, The Business LegalAdvice Clinic has expanded to tenstudents. The clinic provides adviceand counseling to small businessesin the area of employment law inconjunctionwith the USCBusiness ExpansionNetwork.In addition, theclinic has nowpartnered withMatrix, a projectof the SouthernCalifornia Associationof Phil-Noel Ragsdaleanthropy, and isproviding similar advice and counselingto a dozen non-profit agencieslocated in the Vermont/Manchesterand Hyde Park communities adjacentto campus. These non-profitagencies provide vitally- needed servicesin a variety of areas, includingpre-natal care/counseling, mentalhealth, medical/dental care for children,substance abuse/AIDS educationand counseling, child care, afterschoolprograms, and job trainingand counseling.CHILDREN’S ISSUES CLINICDirector: Professor Lee CampbellStudents in the Children’s IssuesClinic work in the program all year.An example of their work is theAdoptions Project, in which studentsrepresent clientswishing to adoptchildren who arewards of theDependencyCourt and, inmost cases, infoster care. Someof the prospectiveadoptiveLee Campbell parents are thefoster parentswith whom the children are alreadyliving, and some are members of thechildren’s extended families. USCLaw School students represented 22families in the adoption of 37 childrenover the past year. Althoughthis program started as a voluntaryeffort, the high need for such representationcoupled with its popularitywith law students, has made it a permanentpart of the Children’s LegalIssues Clinic.POST-CONVICTION JUSTICE PROJECTAttorney Supervisors:Professors Michael Brennan, CarrieHempel, Denise Meyer, and StaceyTurner, clinical teaching fellow.This past summer, students in thePost-Conviction Justice Project wona major victory on behalf of PamelaM., a client atthe CaliforniaInstitution forWomen. Ms. M.was convicted ofpetty theft, witha prior in 1994,for stealing usedgardening toolsworth approximatelyMichael Brennan$24.00.For this offense,she received asentence of 25years to life inaccordancewith the “ThreeStrikes” law.Ms. M. is aclient with a historyof substanceCarrie Hempelabuse problemswith several past convictions for druguse and related minor theft crimes. In1980, Ms. M. was convicted ofshoplifting. Because she had a knifein her purse during the crime, thisoffense was counted as one strike in1994. In 1988, she received her secondstrike when she shoplifted a saw,considered to bethe weapon usedin the offense.The Projectfiled Ms. M.’shabeas petitionin winter 1999,claiming thatMs. M.’s attorneywas ineffectivebecause heDenise Meyerdid not adequatelyraise the defense of voluntaryintoxication, even though theevidence showed that she wasextremely intoxicated at the time ofthe offense. After a three-day evidentiaryhearing in July, 1999, Los AngelesSuperior Court Judge DudleyGrey found that Ms. M.’s sixthamendment right to effective assistanceof counsel was violated, andset aside her conviction. The Projectwas then able to negotiate a plea bargainfor Ms. M.so that she willbe released fromprison in 2001.Project studentsare currently representingclientsin two additionalhabeas hearingsto challenge convictions.Stacey TurnerCarmel BoernerCarmel Boerner AppointedDirector of DevelopmentCarmel Boerner has joined the Law School’s Office ofDevelopment and Graduate Relations as director ofdevelopment operations. In her new position, she will beresponsible for managing all phases of developmentoperations.Ms. Boerner brings nearly ten years of developmentand administrative experience with several not-forprofitinstitutions, including the Museum of ContemporaryArt, and most recently, the Greater Los AngelesZoo Association, to the Law School. She holds a BSdegree from the University of British Columbia, whereshe also obtained her MBA with an emphasis in themanagement of non-profit institutions.Students and Graduates to Benefit FromNew JD/MBA NetworkA new organization, the JD/MBA Network, founded byUSC law and business students, has recently beenformed. Based on campus, the group is designed to servethe specific needs of both current dual degree candidatesand alumni, who have already earned business and lawdegrees. The Network will be providing student supportthrough academic and career counseling, while providingalumni with networking opportunities.For further information, please e-mail the organizationat: jdmba@bus.usc.eduPacific Center Faculty Luncheon SeriesOffers Wide Range of TopicsThe Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, codirectedby USC Law Professor Alex Capron, continuedwith its monthly Faculty Luncheon series throughoutthe fall of 1999. Made possible through the sponsorshipof Dr. Wayne Beemis, a graduate of the USC School ofDentistry, the series is designed to facilitate interdisciplinarydiscussion of important ethical issues in healthcare, while prompting further collaboration among facultyfrom diverse academic departments within the University.Offered in the fall were:“Jekyll in the Courts: Multiple Personality Disorder andthe Law” by USC Law Professor Elyn R. Saks; “TelemedicineLaw” by Don Harper Mills, M.D., J.D.; “Doctors,Drug Companies & Advertising: Where do You Draw theLine?” by David Goldstein, M.D. and Norman Kachuk,M.D.; and “Ethical and Administrative Issues Consideredin the NIH Guidelines for Fetal and EmbryonicStem Cells” by Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D.USC Faculty Working Paper Series OffersNew Electronic Distribution SystemThe USC Law School Faculty Working Paper Series,which disseminates drafts of works in progress, is nowelectronic. Coordinated by Professor Jennifer Arlen anddistributed through the Social Science Research Network(SSRN), the electronic working paper seriesenables Law School professors to share their draftresearch papers with a diverse range of people in thenational, as well as international academic communities,who may be interested in both reading and providinginvaluable commentary.Since May, 1999, 1,700 USC papers have been downloadedthrough SSRN, demonstrating considerableinterest in faculty research. The series also reaches peoplein fields other than law. Numerous requests forpapers have come from professionals in diverse fieldsincluding political science, business, geography, internationalrelations, geography, and mathematics. Internationalrequests for USC Law School working papers havecome from more than a dozen European countries, inaddition to Israel, Canada, Thailand, Hong Kong, NewZealand, Singapore, and Australia. Since its inception in1994, the Working Paper series has issued a total of 103articles by USC professors.26 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200027
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