Summer Program

The Whittier Law School Academic Success Program Summer Program is a one week session that takes place prior to Orientation start. This free program is designed to assist students in fulfilling their potential to achieve success in the law school environment. Typically, the program is limited to thirty students who are available to attend sessions five days a week during the day.

Like all new law students, you will learn that the study of law requires the mastery of a number of skills: case briefing; note-taking; class preparation and class participation, and legal writing including how to write law school exams. Some of these skills may sound familiar, they often differ from those you learned as an undergraduate. The Summer Program will introduce you to those skills before law school starts. You will have several opportunities for same-day feedback on each writing assignment, as well as an opportunity to participate in interactive legal discussions with professors and other students. The program will also include student panels on law school life.

All first-year students are eligible to apply to participate in the Summer Program, but we are particularly interested in enrolling those who, because they have met or overcome challenges or obstacles--cultural, economic, educational, familial, geographic, linguistic or social in seeking their educational goals, feel they need assistance in smoothing the transition into law school.

If you have any questions about any aspect of the Academic Success Program, please feel free to call or stop by, or e-mail me at pmanning@law.whittier.edu. I would be delighted to assist you in any way I can.

Professor Paula Manning
Acting Director, Institute of Graduate and Academic Success