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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 20th until August 22nd 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 2012 Orientation Documents

Orientation Schedule
Handout to bring to the first day of Orientation – Introduction to the American Legal System
Reading for “First Day of Class Simulation” on Wednesday, August 22nd at 9:00 a.m.
- Section A: pages. 29-40 in text Contracts Cases and Materials, Farnsworth, et al., 7th ed. 2008. In the first session, concentrate on pages 34-37. Be prepared for an intensive discussion of the facts leading to the litigation. Section A reading assignment
- Section B: Property I, Professor Arshagouni and then Please sign up for the course TWEN page. Review the course syllabus (available on the course TWEN page) and read pages 15-22 of the casebook and be prepared to discuss the cases in class. For those of you in the Part Time Day Program who do not have Property this year please read the materials here.
- Section C: pages 5-15 in text Contract Law and Practice, Berendt, et al., Revised Second Edition, LexisNexis, 2009. For those of you in Professor Peeler’s Contracts section you do not need to purchase the book. Please read the case here: http://www.uvm.edu/~jashman/cdae127/cohen_v_cowlesmedia.html It’s .important that you read this version, as this case made it through several layers and you do not want read the wrong version from what you will be discussing. So in other words, just searching by case name does not give you the opinion you need-it gives the Supreme Court’s ruling (since it was the highest opinion).
Medical Insurance Form
Dental Insurance Form
ABA Opt Out Form
Disability Accommodations Policy
WLS Academic Support Program Orientation Flyer (Please bring to the first day of Orientation)
WLS Bookstore Advance Form (click on this link to fill out a form to allow you to purchase your books with a credit that will be applied to your cost of living check during the first week of classes)

Reading Assignments

Section A, Professor Cohen, Contracts
Pages. 29-40 in text Contracts Cases and Materials, Farnsworth, et al., 7th ed. 2008. Section A reading assignment.

Section A, Professor Homer, Torts
Pages 1-39, Best and Barnes, Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes and Problems, (Third Edition), Wolters Kluwer (2010)

Section A, Professor Patton, Torts
For Assignment #1, please read Epstein, pp. 3-21 [top]. For Assignment #2, please read Epstein, pp. 21-44.

Section A, Professor Reich, Property
Please read pp. 1-34, in Cribbet, Johnson, et al., Property Cases and Materials (Foundation 2008). Syllabus

Section B, Professor Chang, Contracts
Please read pages 2-28 and 1147-1150 in Summers and Hillman, brief the White v. Benkowski case, and be prepared to discuss the materials for the first day of class.

Section B, Property I, Professor Arshagouni
Please sign up for the course TWEN page. Review the course syllabus (available on the courseTWEN page) and read pages 15-22 of the casebook and be prepared to discuss the cases in class.

Section C, Professor Webster, Criminal Law
Please read pp.127 – 148 for the first class and pp. 149 – 170 for the second class of Dressler’s Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (Fifth Edition).

Section C, Professor Forman, Torts
Please read pp. 2-9 and 20-32 in Dobbs, Hayden & Bublick (6th ed.).

Section C, Professor Peeler, Contracts
There is no required reading for the first class. For the second class, you should read pp. 1 – 20 of the Farnsworth casebook.

Section C, Professor Donnini, Contracts
Pages 5-15 in text Contract Law and Practice, Berendt, et al., Revised Second Edition, LexisNexis, 2009. Full syllabus.