Something for Your Resume: LRSS now underway!

LRSS (Legal Research Skills Series) is a free optional program of supplementary instruction in research skills for Hamline law students who have completed their second semester of Legal Research and Writing or enrolled in the LLM program. The program is one way for students to provide evidence of enhanced research proficiency to potential employers.

Emphasizing student choice, the customizable training is organized into a set of brief, self-contained modules. So far in the Fall 2011 term, we have offered modules on administrative law research and health law research. The next module covers federal legislative history.

If you pass a total of nine modules, you receive a document indicating that you have completed the program and are recognized as having practice-ready skills in the area of legal research. The nine modules must include at least four general modules, at least one jurisdictional module, and at least one specialized module. The only required module is Commercial Databases: Beyond Lexis and Westlaw, Part I.

Even if you do not intend to complete assignments toward the research credential, you are welcome to attend the lectures or demonstrations that interest you, as space permits. So check it out!