In our ongoing effort to keep readers apprised of developments in Temple’s business law community, we wanted to share some recent news and an upcoming event of interest. Running of the ITS Eleanor W. Myers, Emeritus Faculty, and Course Director reports on the 1L’s recent experience in the Introduction to Transactional Skills (ITS) course. 11
Earlier this year, a dozen lawyers of varying degrees of experience from a variety of practice settings attended Temple’s first Mini-MBA for Law Professionals, a ten-course program worth 18 PA CLE credits, designed and taught by faculty from Temple’s Beasley School of Law and the Fox School of Business. The accelerated weekend program was designed
What do today’s Temple Law students crave? A fascinating guest speaker in Klein 2A with free pizza? A great torts outline from the WLC Outline Bank? A brief extension from a merciful professor? Yes, yes, and definitely yes. But even more than that, today’s law students want a connection with our impressive Temple Law alumni
As I approached the end of my internship with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), my excitement and awe had not dissipated in the least. While many of my friends and family see the fact that I worked in the building where Veep is filmed as the most impressive aspect of
This February, Temple Law sent a team coached by Professors Ed Ellers and Jonathan Lipson to the National Transactional LawMeet Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School in New York. The Transactional LawMeet places dozens of law school teams in the role of counsel tasked with negotiating a simulated business transaction. This year,
Law school is an experience unlike any other. Sometimes that experience is great. Sometimes it is not. Most times, it’s a little of both, and always, it is memorable. Similarly, no one law professor is like another, but you’ll remember them all, for the good, the bad, or the both, long after graduation. Since its
As legal-snark-lovers know, you can’t do much better than Above the Law (ATL), a website devoted to exposing the foibles and failings of lawyers, the legal system, and law schools. Rapidly becoming a media force in its own right, ATL held a “converge” in New York Wednesday, March 18 on media, technology, and the future
I moved to Beijing two and a half years ago to be the managing partner of Akin Gump’s Beijing office. I had also signed on to teach two courses in the Temple Beijing LLM program at Tsinghua University. I had expected that my lawyering and teaching would be two very different activities and worried that
Traditionally, the practice of law doesn’t scale well. Revenue comes from billable hours, and billable hours are finite. So how does any young lawyer increase the value of those hours and become an indispensable asset to clients, colleagues, and partners alike? Increase efficiencies and build a personal brand. Here’s how: Master your niche At Founder
Philadelphia hosted the inaugural Forbes Under 30 Summit, held October 19-22, 2014 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The event brought together over 1,000 members of Forbes “30 Under 30” list with an array of business leaders and mentors. I attended as a roving correspondent for 10-Q. Peter Thiel, Co-Founder and former CEO of PayPal, and