Legal Employers Want People and Research Skills from Law Grads

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A new law review article by Susan Wawrose, titled What Do Legal Employers Want to See in New Graduates?: Using Focus Groups to Find Out, 39 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 505 [Find it] concludes that legal employers want law grads with people and research skills.

The Law Library has recently posted a blog entry regarding civility in the practice of law [here].  For further assistance on upping your people skills check out a great electronic resource 151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills.  You may also be interested in Enhancing Your People Skills for Attorneys (in print) at [KF311 .E58 2012] in the Ohio Room of the Law Library.

For research skills, the Law Library has you covered too.  Make sure to check out our Research Guides, participate in our Research Certificate Seminars, and be on the look out for sessions by our Westlaw, Bloomberg, and Lexis reps on those products.  You may also want to schedule a research consultation with one of our librarians for a specific research project.

Finally, here are a few great titles (among many) from the Law Library dealing with research that you may want to check out:

  1. A Concise Guide to Legal Research and Writing [KF240 .B678 2011]
  2. Just Research [KF240 .O18 2011]
  3. Legal Research Guide : Patterns and Practice [KF240 .R63 2011]
  4. Legal Research in a Nutshell [KF240 .C54 2010]
  5. Impeccable Research : A Concise Guide to Mastering Legal Research Skills [KF240 .O82 2010]
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