Student Resources

These are a number of useful links both for your academic career, your legal career, and for enjoying all of the wonderful places that Portland has to offer.

Please email us at sba@lclark.edu with suggestions, comments, and links that you find to be useful.

Legal & Academic

• LC Handbook: A great place to start for any questions about Lewis & Clark Law.
• LC Podcasts: Listen in on topics concerning the LC community, or catch up on an event that you missed.
• Boley Library: Our library website provides access to a wealth of resources to get you started on your research.
• HeinOnline: An expansive collection of PDF articles from virtually every legal journal.
• Westlaw: One of the two major search engines for legal research, statutes, and judicial opinions.
• LexisNexis: The other major search engine for legal research, statutes, and judicial opinions.
• Oregon State Bar: The website for the bar association of the State of Oregon.
• Oregon Laws: A user-friendly and searchable online version of Oregon statutes including decision notes.
• Oyez: Supreme Court Summaries. 
• SCOTUS blog: A blog covering all events relating to the Supreme Court and the decisions it makes. An excellent site for Supreme Court news.

First Year Survival Guide

• SBA First Year Survival Guide: A handy guide to help you survive your first year at law school.

Dean Spence’s Advice for New Students

• Frequently Asked Questions: Dean Martha Spence’s answers to frequently asked questions from new students.
  

Bar Preparation

• Bar Exam Information: Career Services has provided an excellent guide for students seeking to apply to the Bar.
• Surviving the Bar Exam with Your Sanity Intact: Career Services has prepared a list of five essential tips for mentally preparing yourself for the rigors of the bar exam.

Book List

A complete list of all of the books for all the Fall 2010 semester law school classes:

• First Year 
• Upper Division

Visit the Law Bookstore Website. 

Portland Dining

• Portland Restaurants: Reviews by Lewis & Clark students. If there are restaurant reviews that you would like us to add, send us a review at sba@lclark.edu.

Local Portland Resources

• Grocery Stores and Farmers Market: Portland is a food lover’s paradise. A variety of excellent stores provide all manner of fresh food for any dietary requirement or preference.
  
  • Market of Choice: The closest supermarket to campus, known for excellent soups.
  • New Seasons: Although pricey, this supermarket provides an excellent selection of organic and healthy foods.
  • People’s Food Coop: A community owned co-operative natural foods store organizing local food and farmers.
  • Trader Joe’s: The original alternative grocery store chain.
  • Portland Farmers Market: Fresh produce, rather far away from campus, located over in the Hawthorne district.

• Bookstores
  • Powell’s: The largest bookstore in North America. Bibliophile heaven. Excellent café, great hang out space if you have the willpower to resist purchasing books.
  • Cameron’s Books & Magazines: The oldest book store in Portland, a good place for bargain hunters.
  • Annie Bloom’s Books: Friendly small shop located in Multnomah village, more for atmosphere than selection.
  • Longfellow’s Books & Music: Located in SE, a small location physically, albeit with a larger catalog.

• Hikes: A few hours from forests, beaches, and mountains, Portland is a great city for wilderness lovers.
  • Portland Hikers: Site focused on networking amongst fellow hikers, sharing experiences and photos.
  • Local Hikes: Focuses more upon Portland metro area walking trails.
  • Oregon Adventures: More focused on camping and hiking in the big mountains.

• Bikes: Portland is also the most bicycle friendly city in the United States, and bicycling is a major pastime and commuting method for many in the city.
  • River City Bicycles: Schedules bicycling events and rides, this bicycle store is on MLK blvd in N. Portland and is focused upon athletic and competitive bicycling.
  • City Bikes: A cooperative run bike shop on SE Ankeny focused on custom and refurbished bicycles.
  • The Bike Gallery: One of the major bicycle shops of Portland, featuring a wide variety of bicycle designs including recumbents. They have six different locations in the Portland metro area. 
  • Community Cycling Center: A community organization that provides programs to increase bicycle access for youth and adults, and which seeks to widen local accommodations for bicycle usage.
  • Clever Cycles: Organizer of the annual Pedalpalooza event, this Hawthorne bike store is another source for all your bicycling accessories. This store also rents bikes.

• Events
  • Portland Event Calendar: A resource for all of the happenings in Portland.

• Local News
  
  • The Oregonian: The mainstream daily major newspaper for the state of Oregon.
  • Portland Mercury: The alternative weekly, focused on music events. Rather tabloid in nature.
  • Willamette Week: The older alternative weekly magazine of Portland, has the best in-depth local reporting, lacks the range of the Oregonian’s news coverage, competes with the Portland Mercury.

Carpooling

Lewis and Clark Carpool Site