Black History @ SLS
This student organization was founded at Stanford Law School in 1970 and strives to provide career and academic support for students of African descent.
What is the Black Law Students Association?
This law school study guide is a useful tool to review doctrine, synthesize ideas, and glance at during a law school open note exam.
What is an Outline?
This bidding process that law firms and law schools use for summer job employment was just moved to June in 2024 (sorry again everyone)
What is OCI (On-Campus Interviewing)?
This trailblazer resigned her position as the first Black, gay, and female President of Harvard University on January 2.
Who is Claudine Gay?
This exam is one of two numbers that factor into a "holistic review" of your law school application.
What is the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test)?
This professor teaches Criminal Law this quarter and is the first black woman to receive tenure.
Who is Rabia Belt?
This honorary title can be placed after someone's name after they graduate law school and passed the bar.
What is esquire?
As Jessica Pearson (from the hit TV show, Suits) says, this type of work is how law firms show they care (but does not necessarily mean free legal services!)
What is pro bono?
After Bob Weisberg stepped down as Interim Dean on January 8, this professor who has part of a Munger Building named after him was named the Dean of Stanford Law School for the second time in his life.
Who is Paul Brest?
If you don't pass this exam on the first try, you are among the likes of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
What is the Bar?
This U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate did not go to Stanford Law School, but he did play football for Stanford University before going onto attend Oxford and Yale Law School.
Who is Cory Booker?
This latin term, some say, no longer exists but is supposed to be what judges and lawyers rely on when resolving legal questions.
What is stare decisis?
This past year, Milbank was the first firm to kick off raises on this system of lockstep associate compensation based on the number of years out of law school.
What is the Cravath Scale?
This Floridian who hates Black history and books (?) finished in a distant second to Donald Trump in the Iowa Republican Caucus on January 15.
Who is Ron DeSantis?
More law schools are accepting this exam as an alternative to the LSAT (though they typically prefer the LSAT over this test).
What is the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations)?
This person was the first Black student to graduate from Stanford Law School in 1968.
Who is Sallyanne Payton?
Though every attorney hates measuring these to the minute, if you don't do them, how else will we charge our clients $200 hourly rate?
What are billables?
In this state, judges may need to start taking a self defense class after a video of a January 3 probation hearing went viral.
What is Las Vegas?
This exam tests you on your ability to determine right or wrong as a lawyer, also known as memorizing the ABA Professional Rules of Conduct.
What is the MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination)?
Name the first Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Stanford Law.
Who is Tirien Steinbach?
These legal research search engines are notorious for giving students free merch, free gift cards, and free webinars, but some prefer one to the other.
What are Lexis and Westlaw?
These legal professionals are the backbone of the legal industry (A Black princess would agree).
What is a paralegal?
On January 8, a civil rights icon may have turned in his grave after actor Jonathan Majors referred to his girlfriend Meagan Good as his _____ during an interview with Good Morning America after an assault conviction.
Who is Coretta Scott King?
This exam is named after a purple yam, but can also help you apply to practice in 36 jurisdictions.
What is the UBE (Uniform Bar Exam)?