Oct 3, 2012

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What are 'parent trigger' laws?
CNN (blog)
By Jamie Gumbrecht and Donna Krache, CNN. (CNN) – The movie "Won't Back Down" squeaked into the box office Top 10 last weekend, reloading debates around the country about so-called "parent trigger" laws. Haven't heard of them? These are laws that ...
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UB Law School Conference Marks Progress Against Domestic Violence
UB News Center
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A conference and symposium being held at the University at Buffalo Law School on Oct. 19 will pay tribute to two landmark anniversaries in the fight against domestic violence: the 20th anniversary of the Law School's Women, Children ...
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Indiana Tech law school incorporates real-world learning
News Sentinel
Driving downtown on Washington Boulevard, the last building on the left of Indiana Tech's campus is just beginning to take shape. The university has big plans for this three-story, 70,000-square-foot building, which will house the campus' new law ...
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Which California law schools have highest bar pass rates?
Bizjournals.com
Oak Brook College of Law & Government Policy, for example, ranked No. 18 out of more than 50 law schools in the state, according to statistics compiled by the State Bar of California. The unaccredited Fresno-based law school offers correspondence ...
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Nick Freilich, Georgetown Law Graduate, Will Write You A Theme Song If You ...
Huffington Post
Freilich finished law school in 2007. He got an MFA a few years later (though he says that degree hasn't contributed much to his debt). He earned about $40,000 last year and expects to earn around that amount this year, too, mostly earning his living ...
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Touro law school installing first female dean
Newsday (blog)
The first female dean of Touro College's law school will be formally installed next week during a public ceremony at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, college officials announced yesterday. The Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center will ...
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Newsday (blog)
Kirkland lawyers make $5M gift to NU law school
Chicago Tribune
Though Northwestern is among the highest ranked law schools in the nation, it, along with every law school, is dealing with a shrinking job market for new lawyers. Dean Daniel Rodriguez said the gift will help ease financial burdens faced by its students.
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Bullying in NJ schools spikes over previous school year, new stats show
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Driven by the requirements of a tough new anti-bullying law, the number of incidents reported during the 2011-12 school year increased four-fold over the previous year. Under the new law, students can report bullying anonymously and districts are ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Florida weighs case of illegal immigrant who passed bar exam
Reuters
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Florida's Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled attorneys on the implications of issuing a law license to an undocumented immigrant and law school graduate who passed the Florida Bar exam after disclosing he was in the United ...
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As Law School Applications Drop 13.7 Percent Nationwide, KU Sees a 19 ...
ABA Journal
As the number of law school applications fell, overall, throughout the country for the second year in a row, a relative handful of law schools saw their numbers increase, sometimes dramatically. Among them was Kansas University School of Law, which ...
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Authorities: John Donald Cody mastermind behind $100M charity scam
CBS News
Play CBS News Video. (CBS News) Five months after a suspect was arrested, authorities say they finally know his real name. Officials say he's a Harvard law school graduate who's been wanted by the FBI for a very long time. John Donald Cody has been on ...
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KU law school sees 19 percent surge in applications for 2012
Bizjournals.com (blog)
This year, the school received 973 applications from prospective students, up from 819 in 2011. However, applications are still down from 2010, when 1,120 people applied, the story says. Nationwide, law school admissions are decline in response to a ...
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Law Student Charged With Indecent Assault and Battery
Harvard Crimson
A Harvard Law School student has been indicted on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a 24-year-old woman and will be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court Wednesday. Brandon J. Winston is charged with inappropriately touching the vaginal ...
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Durant schools paid law firm $45K to fight principal battle
Quad City Times
The Durant Community School District has paid $45,923.45 to a Davenport law firm to fight its three-year legal battle against newly restored high school principal Monica Rouse, a lawyer with the firm said. Cameron Davidson, a lawyer with Lane ...
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Lawmaker Proposes 'Parent Trigger' Law For Low Performing School
News On 6
Oklahoma State Senator David Holt is proposing a "parent trigger" law that would allow parents to drive change in low performing schools. Seven states, including California and Texas already have parent trigger laws on the books. The law typically ...
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UW law dean: tuition not a 'cash cow' for university
Puget Sound Business Journal (blog)
On the question of why law school costs so much, Testy said there were two reasons. One is that state government has "disinvested substantially in higher education," resulting in increased tuition. The rising costs also can be traced to how law school ...
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Calif. Laws Seek to Curb School Suspensions
Education Week News
Responding to state and national concerns about the effects of out-of-school suspensions on students' education trajectories, California has adopted several measures attempting to change the way that form of school discipline is used. Concerns linger ...
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Kansas University School of Law Experiences Increase in Applications
JDJournal.com
It was announced on Monday that the Kansas University School of Law saw a 19 percent increase in applications for 2012. In 2011, the school received 819 applications and in 2012 the school received 973 applications. In 2010, there were 1,120 ...
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Janet's Law signed by Gov. Christie; provides for AEDs at school events
Tri-Town News
A lifesaving measure known as Janet's Law, sponsored by state Sen. Robert Singer (R-Monmouth, Ocean), has been signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie. "This action by the Legislature and administration is long overdue to prevent tragic student-athlete ...
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NJ schools report 12K bullying instances last year
Huffington Post
New Jersey education officials now have some handle on just how much bullying happens in the state's public schools. Data made public Tuesday show there were 12,024 instances of harassment, intimidation and bullying reported in the 2011-12 school ...
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WVU coach, Texas grad Roberts turned down life of law and politics for football
ESPN
During his second year of law school in 2006, Roberts was tasked with writing a final paper for his sports law class that would examine if legal training could help a football coach. Little did he know that this paper would not only alter his plans for ...
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ESPN
A struggling school, a bitter fight over 'parent trigger' law and no tidy ...
NBCNews.com
But then the 47-year-old mom, a key figure in the education movement that "inspired" the feature film, headed back to the tiny desert city of Adelanto, Calif., and her tract home near Desert Trails Elementary School. That's where the real battle over ...
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NBCNews.com
Law keeps some low-income tech school students from receiving lottery funds
Charleston City Paper
You can't miss Robert Jenkins. As he waits for class to start in a student lounge area at Trident Technical College, strangers walk up and give him high-fives. One student passes by humming the Spider-Man theme. Another asks Jenkins to pose for a picture.
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Charleston City Paper
The GAIN Act Stacks 5-Years of Market Exclusivity for Antibiotics
Patently-O
Sherkow is a fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for the Law and Biosciences. This post originally appeared on Sherkow's Stanford Site. This week's New Yorker has an interesting article on the rise of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea (subscription ...
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YSD Leaves Behind NCLB Law
Yankton Daily Press
Officials in the Yankton School District (YSD) are looking forward to moving away from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and towards the new Common Core standards, already adopted by many other states. The new standards allow schools to show themselves ...
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Loyola Law Students Support IVF in Legal Brief
National Catholic Register
Loyola Law School is a branch of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, which describes itself as a "Catholic institution." The legal brief, submitted Sept. 3, concerns a case before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, in which Costa Rican ...
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Common ground key to building businesses
Chicago Tribune
There almost certainly will be talk about the greatness of this nation, and what these two men — the former a Harvard Law School alumnus and the latter an alum of both Harvard Law and Harvard Business School — believe will ensure its greatness going ...
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EdLibertyWatch Introduces New Freedom Grading Scale for Private School ...
The Moral Liberal
At that time, we mentioned Minnesota's proposed law that has not yet passed (that would have received a D grade on our scale) and Indiana's enacted law (that did receive an F grade) that both require state tests to be given to private school students ...
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EFRAIN ROJAS: Little difference here
Merced Sun-Star
If you are a conservative, this fall you can choose between a pro-choice, gay friendly, Harvard Law School graduate (Barack Obama) or a pro-choice, gay friendly, Harvard Law School graduate (Mitt Romney). Romney became governor of Massachusetts in ...
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Blogs13 new results for Law School
 
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: Predictions about Closings of ...
By Brian Leiter
Alas, yesterday's poll got linked from a blog with a less academic audience, so I've decided to close it. In any case, here are the...
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Inside the Law School Scam: The tuition's too damn high
By LawProf
An American University law school 3L has pointed me toward the following proposed bit of empire-building: Given its growing prestige and national reputation, WCL has outgrown its current facility at 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, where it has ...
Inside the Law School Scam
Law School Evaluations vs. Recommendation Letters
By Steve Schwartz
However, as a general rule the best course appears to be to stick with traditional letters of recommendation unless a school specifically requests Evaluations. Evaluations may become an integral part of the law school application process at ...
LSAT Blog: Ace the LSAT
Law Librarian Blog: Short Takes On The News: Law School ...
By Joe Hodnicki
Law school applications are consistently down at law schools across the country, but not everywhere. A press release issued by the University of Kansas School of Law indicates that it was one of eleven schools accredited by the ABA that saw ...
Law Librarian Blog
Adversity Breeds Strength. The Story of Ave Maria Law School ...
By Matthew Archbold
It started in response to scandal. A group of professors at the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law lost their jobs after protesting a decision to have a pro-abortion judge give the oath of commitment at the end of a school-sponsored Red ...
Campus Notes
Alumni, Judges, and Administrators Talk Professionalism and ...
By mheagney
The 1Ls hadn't taken a single law school class yet, but they spent the last day of Orientation focused on what it means to be a professional. If that seems premature, it's not; the skills that will serve them well in the workplace will also help them ...
News
In US Senate Contest in Mass., Candidate's Academic Post Is an Issue
By Michael Stratford
Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who is running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, was asked at a debate on Tuesday night whether she was bothered by the practice of her opponent—Scott Brown, the Republican ...
Decision 2012
FAMU College of Law Eyes Improvement, Opportunity in Mission to ...
By HBCUDigest.com
And that a closer look at its policies and strategies reveals a nationally competitive school of law that still meets a pressing need to serve underrepresented communities in the law industry. "We are still, and even before this higher bar pass ...
HBCU Digest
The TTABlog®: Four New Judges Appointed to TTAB
By John L. Welch
Mr. Adlin earned his J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law and his bachelor's degree from Duke University. Francie R. Gorowitz returns to the USPTO, where she started her career in trademark law as an examining attorney, ...
The TTABlog®
Trivia Tuesday: UVA School of Law's External Studies Program and ...
By Clear Admit
In this edition of Trivia Tuesday, we're taking a look at the array of opportunities that Virginia Law students have to study, and even acquire practical legal experience, abroad. This information can be useful to UVA applicants who wish to draw ...
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Upcoming Pre-Law Events at a Glance! « .hub | Opportunities and ...
By uscdornsifehub
USC Gould School of Law – Mock Law Admissions (Tues., Oct. 9 at 4:30 p.m.) PERSONAL STATEMENT WORKSHOP SERIES: USC Writing Program (Wed., Oct. 10 at 5:30 p.m.) Loyola Law School (Tues., Oct. 16 at 5 p.m.) USC Gould School ...
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Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam: Cross ...
By Nancy Rapoport
This blog is a companion to our book, Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam, which is designed to help you survive every part of the law school process, from choosing a school through graduating and taking the bar.
Law School Survival Manual: From...
A Microcosm Of Hawaii Land Use Law | Hawaii Reporter
By Robert Thomas
Robert received his LLM, with honors, from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his JD from the University of Hawaii School of Law where he served as editor of the Law Review. Robert taught law at the ...
Hawaii Reporter

Web3 new results for Law School
 
Law School Receives $5 Million Gift from Kirkland & Ellis ...
CHICAGO --- Northwestern University School of Law has received a $5 million gift from the Kirkland & Ellis Foundation and 31 of the law firm's senior partners ...
www.northwestern.edu/.../law-school-receives-5-million-gift-f...
Justice Thomas: Stay upbeat, focused in law school » FlaLaw ...
Thomas talked about his struggles in law school, love for the South and offered a glimpse into his personal philosophy on his life and career, which includes ...
www.law.ufl.edu/.../justice-thomas-stay-upbeat-focused-in-law...
University of Hawaii's law school develops exchange program with ...
HONOLULU - The University of Hawaii's law school is starting a new exchange program with a law school in Tokyo.
www.therepublic.com/view/story/.../HI--Law-School-Exchang...


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