Fall 2024 – Week Thirteen

SPRING 2025 PRACTICUM INFORMATION

We are pleased to share some important information on our practicum course offerings for the Spring 2025 semester. A practicum course offers students an opportunity to earn 2- or 3-credits in connection with an unpaid experiential opportunity. In a practicum course, students will engage in a project for a real client under the supervision of an on-site practicing attorney or supervisor and a full-time faculty member. We offer two types of practicum courses: School Designed Practicums and Independent Practicums.

School Designed Practicum Catalogue

Our School Designed Practicums are pre-approved practicum opportunities with designated faculty supervisors. Each semester, we published a School Designed Practicum Course Catalogue that provides a description for each practicum course and the application requirements. We are pleased to share the first version of our Spring 2025 School Designed Practicum Course Catalogue and encourage you to consider the opportunities in the document linked here: Spring 2025 School Designed Practicums (1).  We will continue to update and circulate this list in the upcoming weeks and early summer months as additional opportunities become available or are confirmed.

Questions? Email lawpract@temple.edu or contact Associate Director Urmson at nurmson@temple.edu.

Independent Practicums: Information and Approval Form – Deadline December 12th

Independent Practicums provide students an opportunity to earn academic credit for an experiential opportunity not otherwise offered by the law school. Upon accepting an unpaid legal internship or externship position, a student seeking to pursue an Independent Practicum must obtain approval from Dean Ramji-Nogales by completing the Practicum Approval Form. Once approved, the student will then need to secure a full-time faculty member to act as the faculty supervisor for their practicum. The deadline to submit Practicum Approval Forms for the Spring 2025 semester is December 12, 2024 at 12 pm.

Questions? Email lawpract@temple.edu or contact Associate Director Urmson at nurmson@temple.edu.

Practicum Registration – Information and Practicum Agreement – Deadline January 6th

All students who wish to register for a practicum must submit a completed Practicum Agreement, signed by the student’s faculty supervisor and site supervisor, through the Practicum Agreement Submission Form on our website. The Practicum Agreement serves as the registration form for the practicum course. Once submitted, the student will be administratively registered for their practicum by the end of the add/drop period. Students seeking to pursue a practicum opportunity for the spring semester should plan on registering for a full course load during general registration and dropping a course during the add/drop period if they need to make room in their schedule. The deadline to submit Practicum Agreements for the Spring 2025 semester is January 6, 2025 at 12 pm.

Questions? Email lawpract@temple.edu or contact Associate Director Urmson at nurmson@temple.edu.

FINAL EXAM INFORMATION – FALL 2024

UPDATED Fall 2024 Exam Schedule

As you know, the last day of fall classes is Thursday, December 5, 2024.  The exam period begins Friday, December 6, 2024 and ends on Thursday, December 19, 2024.  If you do not see an exam listed on the F24 Exam Schedule, please check the F24 Take-Home Schedule and the F24 Free Slot Schedule.

Students with a F24 Free Slot exam can take the exam at any Free Slot on the F24 Exam Schedule. You do not need to need to notify us beforehand – just come to Exam Central and we will have the exam ready for you.

Please note that occasionally a faculty member changes the format or length of an exam, or sometimes we change the exam room. As of November 15, 2024, the F24 Exam Schedule and F24 Take-Home Schedule have been updated. Although these schedules are as accurate as we can make them, we ask that you please check the exam schedule online in the weeks leading up to the exam period.

Exam Conflict Forms – Due Monday, November 18th

Two scheduled in-class exams that begin within a 30-hour period will be considered a conflict. A student with an exam conflict must take one of those exams at its scheduled time and may elect (unless otherwise specified) to take the other exam during a free slot after its scheduled time. Having a scheduled exam on each of three consecutive calendar days is also a conflict. To resolve this type of conflict, the exam scheduled for the middle calendar day will be deferred to a subsequent date.

A take home exam will be considered for the purpose of determining whether a conflict exists only when the deadline for its return is fixed on a specific calendar day that conflicts with a scheduled in-class exam and the exam is made available to the students within 24 hours or less of that deadline.  If you believe that you have a conflict between take home exams which are due on the same date, you should inquire in the Office of Student Services about the possibility of relief, which will depend on when each exam will be made available. Both take home exams would have to be available to you for a relatively short period of time for a conflict to exist.

If you have an exam conflict as defined above and wish to reschedule an exam, you must fill out an Exam Conflict Form and return the completed form to Barrack Hall Room 103 or email molly.paige.levy@temple.edu by Monday, November 18, 2024.

When a conflict exists, the Associate Dean for Student Affairs will determine which exam(s) must be taken as scheduled and which exam(s) is to be deferred. You will have an opportunity to state your preference on the Exam Conflict Form. You will be informed of any scheduled exam that is not allowed to be deferred. A deferred exam must be taken in a subsequent free slot of your choosing. Free slot periods are clearly marked on the exam schedule. No exam can be taken in advance of its scheduled administration.  If within the two week exam period you cannot arrange your overall exam schedule to avoid taking exams on successive calendar days, you may discuss the possibility of individualized relief with the Associate Dean for Student Affairs.

Saturday Exam Option (Upper-Level Students and 1LE Students) – Complete Form by Monday, November 18th at 2PM

We are administering an exam session on Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 9AM.

All evening division students (1LE-4LE) may move one exam from the originally scheduled date to Saturday (you are not permitted to take an exam before the originally scheduled date). If you are an evening student requesting to take an exam on Saturday, please complete this form by November 18, 2024 at 2PM.

ALSO

Any upper-level student who would like to reschedule an exam that was already approved as a conflict for Saturday, December 14 at 9AM may do so and should complete this form by November 18, 2024 at 2PM.

Exam Reminders

• Password for all mock exams: TU123
• Most in person exams are secure. That means any study materials you plan to use for an open book exam must be in hard copy.
• You are not permitted to talk to your professor about the exam after the day the exam is scheduled even if your exam is deferred and you are studying for it later.
• Any questions about a take home exam must be directed to the administration. Do not contact your professor.
• Secondary devices (tablets, e-readers, etc.) are not permitted.
• You will not receive a confirmation email when submitting take home exams.
• If your in person exam has a word limit, you can check the word count in Examplify by clicking on the document icon next to the character count on the bottom of the screen.
• If you are taking a Free Slot exam, Saturday exam, or testing in Barrack Hall, you must keep your own time.

Exam Information Session Slides and Recording

Did you miss the Fall 2024 Exam Information Session? The slides are here and you can watch the recording at this link. If you have any questions, please contact Senior Director Walden at walden@temple.edu.

UPCOMING EVENTS

How to be a Parent & a Lawyer – Monday, November 18th at 12PM

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to be a lawyer AND a parent? Join us Monday, Nov 18 at 12pm to hear five incredible panelists discuss the roadblocks they have faced and the resources they have used to manage it all while enjoying lunch from Masala Kitchen. This panel is co-hosted by the Diversity in Public Interest Law Project (DPIP), the Family Law Society, Outlaw, and the Women’s Law Caucus, to help current students prepare to pursue both a legal career and a family in whatever capacity that means for them. Join us in person or on Zoom (Meeting ID 969 7749 2959).

1L ACE #5: Planning for Finals – Study Schedule and Strategy – Monday, November 18th at 5PM and Tuesday, November 19th at 12PM

As the end of the semester is fast approaching, join us as we cover how to make the most of your time left before finals. Pizza will be provided for in-person sessions.

• Monday, 11/18/24 at 5 pm in K1E and Zoom (https://temple.zoom.us/j/93676110415)
• Tuesday, 11/19/24 at 12 pm in K2B and Zoom (https://temple.zoom.us/j/94290518969)

Careers in Workers’ Rights Panel – Wednesday, November 20th at 12PM

Join Temple NLG in welcoming three Temple alums and a teachers’ union president to discuss their paths, careers, and the role of lawyers in the Labor Movement. Lunch will be served!

Restrictive Laws Affecting Asians in the USA – Thursday, November 21st at 12PM

The Temple Law International Law Society (ILS) invites you to join us for a speaker event on Thursday, November 21st @ 12:00 noon in K2A with Stephanie Sun, who will present about “Restrictive Laws Affecting Asians in the USA.” Ms. Sun is the Vice President of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the Former Executive Director of the PA Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs. We welcome you to learn more about public service and how to navigate the job market. Food will be provided!

WRITING COMPETITIONS, CONTESTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND TOURNAMENTS

Scholarship Opportunities: next deadline November 22nd

Information on available scholarships, writing competitions, contests, and tournaments is posted here: Student Post Scholarship Page. The scholarship opportunities currently available include:

• PBA Intellectual Property 2024 Writing Contest – Deadline November 22nd
• American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) Law School Student Writing Award – Deadline December 31st
• Fifth Annual Judge Samuel G. DeSimone Memorial Legal Writing Competition – Deadline January 1st
• NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Law School Writing Contest – Deadline March 1st
• Public Investors Advocate Bar Association James E. Beckley Writing Competition – Deadline March 28th
• Meltzer Fellowships through the Sheller Center for Social Justice

AccessLex Scholarship Databank

Students seeking additional financial support during law school can also access the AccessLex Scholarship Databank.

Temple University’s Department of Public Safety has a one-stop personal safety app that is available on your mobile device. Please visit the university’s Public Safety website for the new application.

Bike Temple: Register your Bicycle; Free U-locks

Students can register bicycles online using Campus Safety’s Bike Registration Form. Just complete and submit the online form, and then visit one of the Campus Safety locations.

Temple Campus Walking Escort Program

To request an escort, call: 8-WALK (8-9255) from a campus phone, or call: 215-777-9255 from a cell phone. Escort service is available daily from 4 p.m. – 6:00 a.m. 

Temple Flight Program

Flight is Temple University’s nighttime fixed-route shuttle loop service. Flight-branded shuttles circulate throughout the areas within and surrounding the main campus patrol zone, and pick up and drop off students at each of its over 40 stops. Flight shuttles can be tracked in real time.

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