According to a recent  survey by the NALP Foundation, an overwhelming majority of  law firms use core competencies for training and evaluations.   About half use them to determine associate’s base compensation.  Core compentencies can include “skills (writing, research, negotiation, oral …

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Happy Constitution Day (Sept. 13)! The library has a great new resource, especially useful for those taking the Comparative Constitutional Law class.   HeinOnline’s World Constitutions Illustrated is a searchable database of current and historical constitutions for 190 countries.  The current constitutions are in their …

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LexisNexis Communities contains news, blogs, top cases, podcasts, videos, emerging issues and more.  Students can use this resource to get ideas for paper topics.   There are also lots of RSS feeds for automatic updates.  LexisNexis Communities has separate pages for …

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