Advice to Summer Associates - iTunes Version

Over at Concurring Opinions, Deven Desai has some sound advice for law students embarking on their summer law firm adventures.  The core of the advice is something I repeat often to my students:  work hard, research and write well, be productive, show you have the stuff of a lawyer.

Let me also put in a plug for a program created by my colleagues at Suffolk (if you haven't seen it already). Called "Transitioning from One-L to Summer Legal Work," this iTunes-available series contains 19 podcasts, each by a different legal writing professor from around the country, and all available free of charge.  Each podcast offers another piece of "real world" advice, like how to interact with support staff, send an e-mail to a partner, use LexisNexis in a cost-effective way and behave at a firm social event.  The series is available on Suffolk Law's iTunes U site.

The podcast series is the brainchild of Suffolk Professors Gabriel Teninbaum (left) and Kathleen Elliott Vinson (right, the director of Suffolk's Legal Practice Skills program, and who introduces the series via video).  Suffolk's Dean Fred Aman not only provides an introductory podcast, but in his second life as an accomplished jazz drummer, he provides the musical background you hear in each segment of the series.  (Fred took the sticks for one number at Suffolk's student black-tie end of year celebration, the Barristers' Ball, and it was sublime!)