Pre-Law Resource Center/LSAT Library

Program Director Martin Edwards in the Resource Center.

The Director of the Pre-Law Program's office is located is temporarily located in portable building 839 directly across the street from the Dorian Fitness Center. The office contains a resource center providing information about accredited law schools across the country.

Group meetings are sponsored there to supply supplemental information about preparation for a law career. The resource center contains a library of law school materials including catalogues of every law school in the country. The resource center also contains shelves of books, pamphlets and other materials relating to the law school admissions process, including books and files on the writing of personal statements and securing appropriate letters of recommendations.

Attorney Anthony Zebouni administers the Municipal Law Clinic. Here, he shows four Program students the Mayor's Office.

The office actively assists students in securing positions with local law firms and internships with public service agencies. One of the most popular internships the office provides is with the Muncipal Law Clinic supervised by the Office of General Counsel. In the past years, Program students have interned in such prominent law firms as Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans, & Coxe, Pa, Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis, McClamma and Yegelwel and Foley & Lardner. Other students have secured paid internships with numerous other law firms, and have clerked or interned at the U.S. Attorneys Office, Office of the State Attorney, Office of the Public Defender and numerous other state and local agencies. In addition, numerous seminars are held on campus in which admissions personnel from the Southeast visit with UNF students to discuss their law schools and the admission process. Prospective students are welcome to visit the pre-law office throughout the year.

One of the students who benefitted from the Resource Center is Conrad Stroman. He was the State of Florida 2001 Truman Scholarship winner and is presently working for U.S. Senator Bob Graham.

LSAT Library

Over the years, the Pre-Law Program has acccumulated many books, films, articles, study guides and other valuable reference materials to help students prepare for and attain the best results possible on the all-important LSAT.

There are shelves full of hundreds of former LSATs, numerous reference books and guides on how to prepare for the LSAT, and a four-part, seven hour film series on "How to Take the LSAT," with a workbook. Students check out the films on a regular basis.

Many former students who have take the LSAT have donated their study materials to the Program. These resources are also available to current students for their perusal. All of these resources are free to Program students.

There are also many different and varied prep courses students can purchase. The resource center contains information and booklets about many of these prep courses which are also available for the students to review before deciding upon how much time and financial resources they are able to commit in prepartion for the LSAT.

Students frequently check out the materials in the Resource Center.