2019 Orientation: Monday, August 12-Saturday, August 17

Your experience as a Widener Law Commonwealth student will start with an orientation designed to make you feel at home and ready to launch your legal education.  Orientation provides the chance to get to know your future classmates and meet your first-year professors in an informal setting, not to mention staff and student leaders from organizations such as the Student Bar Association.

Attendance at all sessions is mandatory.  Check back regularly for updates.  Review the following items very carefully.

Matriculation Memo 

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

Orientation Memo

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

Orientation Schedule

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

1L Welcome Luncheon 

(PDF posted on 7.21.19)

Introduction to Legal Process Memo

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

Legal Process Videos 2019 (Links posted on 8.1.19 at 6:20 a.m.)

• Video 1
• Video 2
• Video 3
• Video 4a
• Video 4b

Textbooks & First Assignments 

• Fall 2019 Textbooks (PDF) updated on 7.29.19
• Fall 2019 First Assignments (PDF) updated on 8.13.19 at 5:07 p.m. This document will be updated regularly. Check back on this page for updates. 

Student Education Records Notice

(PDF revised on 7.22.19)

Locator Card 

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

Employment Form 

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

ExamSoft Memo 

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

ID Card and Parking Permit Memo 

(PDF posted on 8.7.19)

Campus Safety Welcome Message

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

Information Technology Services Information Guide

(PDF updated on 8.5.19)

ITS FAQ

(PDF posted on 7.17.19)

Printing Instructions

(PDF updated on 8.6.19)

Classes start Monday, August 19, 2019

Orientation is coordinated by the Office of Student Affairs. If you have any questions, please contact us.