The Prepare for Practice Certificate Program (formally the PORTT Program) is an intense skill-building program designed to get students ready to add value on the job from day one. Some of the topics covered include cost-effective research, practice-oriented resources and databases, state specific research, legal technology, and court and public records.
The program is designed and taught by Penn State Law Library Faculty. In order to receive an official Law School certificate of completion and recognition on this website students must attend six hours of classroom instruction.
“PORTT taught me countless invaluable skills that I will certainly be able to use in practice. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the various productivity tools that lawyers are using to keep connected to their clients and educated in their field. The thorough examination of the advanced research strategies by the Penn State Law Library Faculty taught me to utilize the legal resources available in the law library and online in a unique way that I could not find in the traditional law school class. Thanks again!” — Sean Jordan
"As someone who will be practicing with a firm after graduation, the majority of my time over the next several years will be spent researching and writing. Any chance to gain additional experience in these skills will be helpful in my preparation to practice.” — Student comment
2017 PORTT Certificate Holders
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Kierra N. Brown |
Fallon Dungan |
Kristen M. Nazzaro |
2016 PORTT Certificate Holders
| Shukri Abdi Thomas Brier, Jr. Theresa DeAngelis Ryan Dickinson |
Shekka Drayton Quandalasha Q. Fambro Andrew C. Fillmore
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Gerard W. Gaughan Camille Hart Lanique A. Roberts Shani Walker |
2015 PORTT Certificate Holders
| Jose Abad Merchan Saleh Abbadi Fahad Alarfaj Anita Alexander Saman Ali Bassam Almuneef Bandar Almutairi Majed Alotaibi Mofarrih Alsarhani Ahmed Al-Tameemi Abdulrahman Alzahim Amer Alzahrani James Barron Niccolo Bianconi Latoya Cottingham Andrey De Vasconcelos Karen Durkish Hadrien Fages |
Siyu Fei Joyce Fondong Kaitlyn Fulmer Andreas Hasiholan Darlene Hemerka Christian Hoefly Yiwei Huang Matthew Huffines Meng Jiang Salua Kamerow John Keiser Robert King Juliana Kitwika Amanda Klopf Erin Krotoszynski Meng Lian Jessica Linares Justiniano |
Sarah Raquel Lisle Liquan Liu Chloe Marie Rijuta Mohanty Yueti Pi Kevin Prucino Sameer Qureshi Ryan Renninger Sean Richards Jiayuan Shi Nicole Suissa Xiling Tang Chloe Thatcher Mengbei Wang Jun Ye Pengcheng Zhang Fang Zhou |
2014 PORTT Certificate Holders
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2013 PORTT Certificate Holders
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2012 PORTT Certificate Holders
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