Events Calendar

Coffee, Tea, Service, and Pastries

It’s time to move past the recent challenges. It’s time to reimagine and focus on a new day, a new us! It’s time to get creative and innovate to thrive! Learn and practice the deliberate creative process so you can generate and implement creative ideas for your students and your school. Keynote speaker: Dr. Amy Climer.

Conflict resolution is critical and part of our daily work. We will share expert recommendations for framing, facilitating, and following up in high-conflict interactions. We will help you respond more effectively when conflict arises, while also modeling productive conflict resolution as a critical tool for future lawyers. Participants will be invited to practice these skills as they might be applied to both real and hypothetical scenarios. You will leave with strategies, de-escalation tools, and mindfulness practices that support these important engagements.

Presenter

Lynn LeMoine,Dean of Students, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

We've all wondered whether our message is being heard by our students, faculty, and staff. Join us to discuss how to build strong communications strategies and work well with your communications department. We will discuss crisis communications, methods of communication, and how to be innovative without driving away your audience. You will walk away from this session with tools to facilitate stronger partnerships with your communications department and best practices to maximize student engagement!

Presenters

Andrew Berman, Associate Dean for Communications and Marketing, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University Lisa Monticciolo, Dean of Students and Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University Kim Prince, Director of Marketing and Communications, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law Chalak Richards, Associate Dean of Student Life, Diversity, and Belonging, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law

Beyond Disability Accommodations I: Changing the Culture of Student Success

Buffet lunch Mentor/mentee meet-up and Vendor Fair

This report on results from the 2021 Survey of Law Student Well Being (2021 SLSWB) revisits topics from the 2014 SLSWB (use of alcohol and street drugs, prescription drug use, mental health concerns and help-seeking attitudes) while also looking at 1) how trauma may affect law students, 2) what concerns third-years as they approach bar preparation, and 3) what respondents said about things law schools do well and could do better to improve well-being.

Presenters

David Jaffe, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, American University Washington College of Law Jerry Organ, Bakken Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, University of St. Thomas School of Law Kate Bender, Assistant Professor of Counseling

Break/Vendor Fair

Students are leaving law school with an understanding of the law but lacking executive functioning skills such as time management, project management, emotional regulation, and focus. By teaching executive functioning skills through an ethics-based lens, we can explain to students why the development of these skills is important in law school, practice, and life. This train-the-trainer style session will walk you through how to build an engaging and ethics-based presentation that you can take back to your institution.

Presenter:

Erin Lee Schneider, Assistant Dean for Student Services, Drake University Law School

Are you a non-JD working at a law school? Are you full of doubt and feeling inadequate? Do you question your expertise and feel you don't belong? This mindset can lead to self-doubt, stress, and be critical to our professional performance. Participants will explore impostor phenomenon and discuss strategies to flip the script on this phenomenon and ways to overcome and regain confidence in their roles as a non-JD in a JD world.

Presenter:

Misty Franklin, Director of Online Education & Academic Affairs, The University of Akron School of Law

Welcome Reception and Vendor Fair