• Past Arizona bar exam essay questions and summary of issues (February 1995-July 2011)
• Bar prep series – videos recorded by ASU law professors on bar exam subjects
• Bar Exam Resource Guide – a guide to information and services for ASU law graduates preparing to take the bar exam in Arizona or elsewhere

Be sure to also consult the resources in the Study Skills Collection, which include books on bar exam subjects and best practices for bar preparation:

• The Glannon Guide to Secured Transactions: Learning Secured Transactions Through Multiple Choice Questions and Analysis (2012)
  A new book in the Law Library collection, The Glannon Guide to Secured Transactions provides a concise review of secured transactions topics through multiple-choice questions and explanatory answers.

• Emanuel’s Law Outlines: Secured Transactions (2011)
  Another new book in the Law Library, Emanuel’s Secured Transactions outline provides a comprehensive breakdown of the topic into outline format with both summary and detailed versions of the main issues within secured transactions.

• Perform Your Best on the Bar Exam Performance Test: How to Finish the MPT in 90 Minutes “Like a Sport” (2011)
• The Zen of Passing the Bar Exam (2011)
• Acing the Bar Exam: A Checklist Approach to Taking the Bar Exam (2008)

Have a great break!

Finally, remember that anytime you have a question over the summer about any aspect of legal research you can ask a librarian!  Librarians will be available 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday, all summer and are happy to help you navigate any research project.  You can come by the reference office, call us at (480)965-6144, e-mail a question, or make an individual appointment with a librarian.

Law students have long taken refuge in the library for quiet study. Before 1993, the ASU Law Library was housed in the basement and other areas of Armstrong Hall. Without a free-standing building with dedicated study rooms (which, by the way, are in high demand this time of year – reservations are recommended!), students hunkered down at study carrells or nooks and crannies throughout the space.

To commemorate this Reading Period, we thought you’d enjoy these photos of hard-working law student of yore (c.1970s). Hang in there, students, soon final exams will be a thing of the past!

A review panel comprised of librarians Victoria Trotta and Beth DiFelice and Associate Clinical Professor Kimberly Holst selected the winners from the competitive entries.

In addition to receiving a monetary award, the winners are also invited to publish their papers in Law Library’s digital scholarship repository, and to feature their papers in the Law Library Display Case.

Congratulations to our winners!

• 3 to 4 person groups may reserve a room for a maximum of six hours per day
• 5 to 6 person groups may reserve a room for a maximum of eight hours per day
• Individuals and people studying in pairs will be required to use 2 person study rooms and may reserve a room for a maximum of 4 hours per day

You may reserve rooms up to one week in advance. Reserved rooms will be held for 15 minutes.  Please stop by the Law Library Circulation desk to reserve a room or use our online study room reservation system.

Groups are limited to the maximum reservation time per day. Reservations may not be made under multiple group members’ names in order to extend use of a study room beyond the maximum time. Consecutive reservations made for members of the same group will be cancelled.

Good luck on your finals!

Good speeches stand the test of time, and 25 years later, Eckstein’s advice is still solid.

How to Find Happiness in the Practice of Law:

1. ”(A)lways be respectful of those who are your adversaries and understand that your role as an advocate or negotiator deles not require you to assume the demeanor of those you represent…

2. (Do) what you can do well and (take) care with each word that you write and with each thought that you put forth…

3. (S)eek out and master new areas of the practice, however foreign and intimidating they may at first appear to be…

4. (M)ake the time to read great novels, listen to fine music, keep a watchful eye for new architecture and above all to develop a deep appreciation of our history and of our governmental institutions…

5. As a fifth key to happiness – indeed survival – in the practice of law you must be prepared to resign your position or fire your client, however painful that may be, when you are asked to participate in or bless unjustifiable conduct…

6. Perhaps I have an old-fashioned sense of values, but I cannot imagine how one can ever be truly happy in the practice when he is more concerned with the quantity of his possessions than the quality of his service. Thus, the sixth key to happiness is constant attention to the quality of your work.”

To read the Commencement Address in its entirety, click here.

~SL

A diligent group of law student peeps study for their upcoming final exams in the Arizona State University Ross-Blakley Library. All are wannapeep  Peep Masons and Ally McPeeps. They are studying hard, hoping to learn it all before their brains turn to marshmallow. Alas, too late for 1L C. Little – he has had a meltdown! Since the law librarian is watchful, and the 1Ls  are courteous library citizens, they are using their best inside peep cheeps.

The hour-long workshop will be offered twice:
Tuesday, April 2^nd: 12-15-1:15pm in Library 119
Wednesday, April 3^rd: 3-4pm in Room 118

The All Night Study Room will be unavailable tomorrow night.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We will reopen at 7:00 a.m. Friday morning.