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Orientation

Congratulations on your acceptance to Whittier Law School. From your first day of law school and all during your professional life, the entire Whittier community has the responsibility and the privilege to educate and guide you as you mature into, and ultimately become, a legal professional. That guidance begins during Orientation.

Orientation will occur from August 15th until August 18th and includes a reception for you and Whittier alumni. Orientation provides you with important information on how to make a successful transition to law school. Faculty and staff will introduce you to campus policies, procedures and facilities and will teach you how to prepare for class. They also will introduce you to study habits that will help you manage the demands of law school. Very importantly, we will begin to expose you to the ethical dimensions of law practice.

Orientation also gives you the opportunity to meet your classmates who will become your fellow travelers on your professional journey and your life-long personal friends. But most of all, Orientation gives all of us at Whittier Law School the opportunity to welcome you into our community and to celebrate your decision to become a legal professional. We are delighted to have you join us.

I look forward to meeting you in August. And, once again, a warm welcome to Whittier Law School.

Penelope Bryan
Vice President and Dean

August 2011 Orientation Documents

• Orientation Day Schedule
• Orientation Evening Schedule
• Introduction to the American Legal System (Please bring to the first day of Orientation)
• Admissions Bulletin
• California Bar Foundation Scholarship
• Medical Insurance Form
• Dental Insurance Form
• ABA Opt In/Opt Out Form
• Disability Accommodations Policy
• Introduction to the American Legal System (Please bring to the first day of Orientation)
• WLS Academic Support Program Orientation Flyer (Please bring to the first day of Orientation)

Reading Assignments

To be announced. Please check back weekly from now until Orientation for important updates. Reading assignments will also be posted on the bulletin boards across the hall from the Whittier Law School Bookstore.

• Section A Reading Assignment / Thursday, August 18 / Dean Haythorn (Introduction to Business Associations)
• Section A Reading Assignment / Professor Forman / “Torts and Compensation”, Dobbs, Hayden & Bublick, (6th ed.): pages 2-9; 20-32
• Section A Reading Assignment / Professor Welkowitz / Reading Assignment
• Section B Syllabus / Criminal Law / Professor Pritikin (Class Syllabus)
• Section B Reading Assignment / Torts / Professor Pathak / Twerski & Henderson, Torts: Cases and Materials (2d ed.), pp. xxix-xxxiv
• Section C Reading Assignment/ Contacts / Professor Donnini / “Contract Law and Practice”, Revised 2nd Ed., pages 5-15
• Section C Reading Assignment / Torts / Professor Patton / “Cases and Materials on Torts”, Epstein, Introduction, and pp. 3-22[top].

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