Loyola University Chicago School of Law continues to lead with innovative curricula and programming.
Here’s a sampling of what’s new and notable at the law school.
LEGAL BRIEFS
8
435
241
LOYOLA LLM PROGRAMS
INCLUDE ADVOCACY,
BUSINESS LAW, CHILD AND FAMILY LAW, HEALTH LAW,
RULE OF LAW FOR DEVELOPMENT, TAX LAW, AND
TWO NEW INTERNATIONAL LAW PROGRAMS.
STUDENTS RECEIVED LOYOLA
LAW DEGREES IN 2012.
CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME TO
OUR NEW GRADUATES!
NEWLY ADMITTED LAW STUDENTS ATTENDED A
DISCOVER LOYOLA RECEPTION THIS SPRING. AT
THESE EVENTS,
STUDENTS TOUR CAMPUS, MEET
PROFESSORS, AND MORE.
BY THE NUMBERS
A
lumni are welcome in the
Law Library during any of its
regular hours. If you have not visited
in recent years, you may be surprised
at the range of sources and services
available. The library’s mission of
supporting the legal research needs
of students, faculty, alumni, and staff
hasn’t changed, but advances in
technology and the proliferation of
online databases have provided more
tools for fulfilling that mission.
Along with a substantial
print collection of traditional
legal materials, the Law Library’s
collection includes subscriptions
to a multitude of online sources.
Contract restrictions with LexisNexis
andWestlaw prevent the library
from offering those well-known legal
research systems to anyone other
than current students, faculty, and
staff, but most other databases are
available, through several walk-up
terminals, to alumni who visit the
library. Among these is HeinOnline,
an impressive image-based collection
that includes law journals and a wide
range of historical legal information,
from the English Reports to state
session laws dating back to the
1800s. Also available is Fastcase, a
collection of primary law and other
legal research sources that has gained
ground over the past decade as an
alternative to LexisNexis andWestlaw.
In addition to collecting
subscription databases for legal
research, the Law Library staff uses
new products and technologies,
including YouTube-based video
tutorials, to communicate with the
law school community about research
options. On-site library services,
including reference assistance, are
available seven days a week, but off-
site help is also available at any time
through a broad collection of legal
research guides known as LibGuides.
Each LibGuide covers a particular
area of law and includes links to
books, journals, databases, and free
Web resources relevant to that topic.
Popular guides include the First Year
Legal Research Guide, the Intellectual
Property Research Guide, and the
Health Law Research Guide.
Recently, the Law Library
launched a special LibGuide to
acquaint alumni with library
services available to them and to
offer links to quality research sources
available for free on the Internet.
Along with the research guides,
the Alumni Services Guide is
accessible through the LibGuides
link at
LUC.edu/law_library.
■
What’s new
in the Law
Library
RANGE OF RESOURCES
3Ls Rae Kyritsi (left) and Gretchen Thomas take advantage of the Law Library’s numerous online resources.
ACCREDITATION
A competitive
advantage in health law
T
he School of Law has
gained full accreditation
by the Compliance
Certification Board of the
Health Care Compliance Association
(HCCA), effective November 21, 2011.
The accreditation enables graduates
who have earned a JD Health Law
Certificate, LLM degree, or MJ degree,
and have taken specific compliance-
related courses, to register and sit
for up to three HCCA-administered
certification exams without the
required work experience.
A certification in health care
compliance serves to establish
professional standards and ensure
that each certified health care
compliance practitioner has a broad
and necessary knowledge base to
perform compliance-related duties.
“We are grateful to HCCA for
recognizing the depth and quality
of Loyola’s curriculum in the area of
regulatory and legal compliance,”
says Larry Singer, professor of law and
director of Loyola’s Beazley Institute
for Health Law and Policy. “Loyola’s
recent accreditation will provide
our recent law graduates with the
opportunity to remain competitive
with individuals in the job market
who may have several years of health
care compliance work experience.”
■
In this 1979 photo, Daniel Roth and Carmel Cosgrave (both JD ’80) prepare for a Client
Counseling Competition. Roth and Cosgrave have been married for 31 years and have two
sons. Cosgrave, an accomplished trial attorney in both state and federal courts, is a founding
partner and chair of the Health Care Practice Group at SmithAmundsen. Roth has worked at
the National Futures Association, a self-regulatory body for the U.S. futures industry, for 29
years. He has been president of the organization since 2003.
Where are they now?
SPRING 2012
3
2
LOYOLA LAW
