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Penn State Board of Trustees approved final plans Friday for a $60 million Dickinson School of Law building at University Park.

The structure will consist of three floors plus a lower level and a 113,000-square-foot building footprint north of Park Avenue on Bigler Road.

That's a prominent location adjacent to the future arboretum and near the Business and Forest Resources buildings, said Gary Schultz, senior vice president for finance and business/treasurer of the university.

The first floor will include three 75-seat tiered classrooms, a 50-seat courtroom and a 250-seat auditorium.

Admissions, administrative support and a law clinic, where volunteers will offer pro bono legal services, also will be on the first floor, along with a cafe.

He's a librarian, but also a teacher...Todd Bennett, who works in the California offices of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP spends a good deal of his time, particularly during the summer instructing young attorneys and law school students on techniques of search. Not only is it important to check LexisNexis and Westlaw, but "there is a vast body of secondary sources that can't be found on Google. Here's a big hint: They're found in books." More from the Law Journal.