TO: Pre-Law Interest Group Members
FROM: Julie Givans and Sandra Voller, Co-Chairs

Hello pre-law advisors!

As you know, NACADA is seeking proposals for its 2005 National Conference, to be held October 5-8 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and now is the time to start brainstorming.

This year, we would like to really encourage interest group members to submit proposals on pre-law advising. To prime the pump, what follows are some ideas to get you started; any of these could be an individual session, but you might also consider collaborating with others to create "panel" presentations on certain topics. Panels of 3 or 4 presenters and a moderator are great because then each panelist is only responsible for 10-15 minutes of content -- and what advisor can't talk for 10-15 minutes about a program or idea they are proud of?

Some ideas you may want to consider:

• Pre-law advising models -- what works at your school?
• Collaborating with other on-campus resources
• Is pre-law advising curricular or co-curricular?
• Basics of the application process (for new pre-law advisors and general advisors who answer 'occasional' pre-law questions)
• Financial planning/financial aid for pre-law and law school
• Pre-law advising & pre-law programs for under-represented students (CLEO, etc)
• Personal statement tips
• Advising pre-law freshmen: teaching them what it takes
• "Wanna be" or lawyer-to-be?: making law school admissions a "sure bet for students in the "middle numbers" (LSAT & GPA)
• Pre-law advising for students in "non-traditional" pre-law majors (fine arts, engineering, nursing, others)
• pre-law advising for alumni -- assisting students who have been out of school a while.
• pre-law programs -- what works at your school? (i.e. career days, personal statement workshops, LSAT workshops, law student panels) -- this one would be extra good as a panel presentation, in my opinion.

Please feel free to use the Pre-Law Interest Group list serve to set up your panels and brainstorm ideas. If you are not already subscribed to it, we encourage you to visit our interest group web site at www.nacada.ksu.edu/list serve/C34.htm for instructions to do so. Instructions for posting messages to the list serve are also provided.

The deadline to submit conference proposals is February 8, 2005. At the following web site, you will find proposal submission information and a tutorial for writing an effective title, proposal and abstract.

www.nacada.ksu.edu/2005proposals/index.htm

Happy holidays!

Julie & Sandra

Julie Givans & Sandra Voller
Co-Chairs, NACADA Pre-Law Interest Group
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287

julie.givans@asu.edu, sandra.voller@asu.edu