Feb 27, 2013

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Fla. death row exoneree to speak at UNM Law School
San Francisco Chronicle
Juan Melendez is scheduled Wednesday to address to law school students and faculty about spending 18 years on Florida's death row for a crime he did not commit. Melendez was convicted of a 1983 murder but freed in January 2002 after the discovery that ...
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Law Schools May Appear Worse in the Rearview Mirror
Above the Law
A couple weeks ago, we shared with you some of our survey data, which showed that, generally speaking, law students' experiences with their schools degrade over time. The ATL Insider Survey asks law students and alumni to rate their schools in the ...
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Law school reaches out to students
USD Volante Online
Sorensen said the law school open its doors to prospective students individually each day, but Discover Law Day allows the school to reach out to a mass of students at one time. "We want to admit people in law school for people who will succeed ...
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Law schools must stick with their core function
STLtoday.com
Unless this society, which has been built on the rule of law, decides that it no longer needs legal professionals and the skills they provide, top law schools should remain true to their core functions and continually improve upon the training lawyers ...
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Summer session can help undergrads decide whether to apply to law school
Vanderbilt University News
A new two-week program for college undergraduates considering law school will debut at Vanderbilt Law School this summer. The program is aimed at college students who believe they might be interested in a career in law, but want more information before ...
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UCI's Chemerinsky named to First Amendment chair
OCRegister
By SCOTT MARTINDALE / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. IRVINE – The head of UC Irvine's law school will fill a newly created faculty position leading the school's teaching and research on First Amendment law, the school announced Tuesday. Dean Erwin ...
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Law school dean search down to 4
ABQ Journal
The search for a new dean at the University of New Mexico's School of Law is down to four candidates, two of whom work at the school, according to a letter to alumni. They are: Alfred Mathewson, a UNM law professor and acting director of the school's ...
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Law School Grads Should Be 'Client Ready'
Connecticut Law Tribune
The phrase "practice ready" is something of a misnomer. It was popularized by The New York Times in late 2011 in a feature about law firms teaching law graduates how to practice law because law schools give it short shrift.
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Law School 101 At AACC
Eye On Annapolis
Get help understanding your consumer rights in these and other legal situations at the free "Law School for the Public" at Anne Arundel Community College from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Saturday, March 9. Meet in Careers Center Building Room 200; RSVP ...
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Law-school symposium looks at LGBT rights
Windy City Times
Panelists included Katharine Baker, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; Karen Sheley of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois; and Camilla Taylor of Lambda Legal. They tackled the recent marriage equality vote in Illinois as well as ...
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Which school topped list of go-to law schools for BigLaw hiring?
ABA Journal
The University of Pennsylvania sent 60 percent of its graduates to the nation's top 250 law firms last year, putting it in the No. 1 spot on a list of BigLaw feeder law schools. The National Law Journal ranked the top 50 go-to law schools. The top 10 ...
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Indigenous learning cut from law school
The Argus.ca
Last week, Lakehead University's Senate cut the only mandatory indigenous learning credit from the curriculum of the new law school. Lakehead's initial application for a law school was rejected by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities as ...
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Concord Law School Hosts Panel to Discuss Current State of the Legal Profession
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concord Law School dean Greg Brandes and a panel of lawyers will discuss "Closing the Justice Gap: Law Schools and Their Critics Confront the New Realities of the Profession." Despite a perceived abundance of ...
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Bristol's first ever student law conference [Fri 8 March]
University of Bristol
The event, which coincides with the Law School's 80th anniversary, aims to provoke wide-ranging discussion and debate on some of the legal and ethical issues surrounding the system of press regulation. Speakers at the event include Lord Hunt, the ...
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Team from Chicago's John Marshall Law School Advances to National ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
John Marshall Law School students will be competing in the national Texas Young Lawyers Association Trial Advocacy Competition April 3 through 7, 2013, in San Antonio. The team of Andrew McElligott, Sarah Ross and Eric Wojnicki won the right to ...
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Ray Nimmer steps down as UH Law dean, Alderman interim – Updated
Houston Chronicle (blog)
A source at the law school said Nimmer will be back teaching after a year's sabbatical and the search will soon start for a full time dean. Nimmer is a prolific writer who has authored more than 25 books, an expert first in bankruptcy and then in ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Journalism Schools Try Out Drones—And Test Legal Boundaries
U.S. News & World Report
AP style, interviewing skills, fact checking, and … drone flying lessons? At least two journalism schools are experimenting with using unmanned aircraft as news-gathering tools. Drones have already been used by law enforcement, search-and-rescue ...
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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Named Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As the holder of the Pryke Chair, Chemerinsky will help solidify the School of Law's teaching and research in First Amendment and media law, serving as a national opinion leader in free speech and media issues. He is a respected national authority in ...
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MarketWatch (press release)
Nashville School of Law Welcomes Accomplished Alumnus to Faculty: Rising ...
The Tennessean
Nashville School of Law (NSL) today announced that attorney and NSL alumnus David J. Callahan III of Callahan Witherington, PLLC, has joined its faculty. He is now teaching third- and fourth-year students on probate and estate planning in the Wills course.
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Tackling Gender Disparity
Inside Higher Ed
Of the remaining 34 positions on the board, 20 are filled based on the results from the law school's first-year writing test, and 14 on a combination of their grades and writing test results. Official policy dictates no editor be made aware of which ...
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Schools try to dig out from under snow days
Dodge City Daily Globe
Under state law, school districts are required to provide at least 186 days of class for grades K-11 and at least 181 days for grade 12. The law gives districts flexibility to adjust, as long as a total of 1,116 hours of instruction is provided ...
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Federal health care law may spur some Iowa school districts to trim workers' hours
Omaha World-Herald
DES MOINES (AP) — Hundreds of Iowa school districts are looking at whether to provide health care benefits for part-time employees or to cut their hours so they don't have to offer them health insurance under the federal health care law. The ...
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School safety commission eyes Kendra's Law
Tulsa World
Under current state law, mentally ill people in Oklahoma can be involuntarily committed if they pose a risk to themselves or others. Kendra's Law would also allow some mentally ill people to be committed for up to 72 hours if they don't maintain a ...
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Isle of Wight school employees will get paid
Daily Press
Under state law, school divisions must return all unexpended money – this year, $2.1 million for Isle of Wight Schools – to the localities' governing bodies at the end of the fiscal year. In the final weeks of fiscal year 2012, Isle of Wight entered ...
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Florida Democrats seek to cushion expected changes to charter school law
Tampabay.com (blog)
Majority Republicans in the Florida House and Senate have made no secret of their desire to expand the reach of charter schools in the state, with legislation filed to give charters more access to construction funds and to allow even more growth of the ...
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Blogs2 new results for Law School
 
Dr Tribe invited to be Editor of the Mithani: Directors' Disqualification ...
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His Honour Judge Abbas Mithani QC has invited Dr. John Tribe to replace Professor Rebecca Parry (Nottingham Law School) as Editor of the Mithani: Directors' Disqualification Newsletter. Judge Mithani QC is general editor of the two-volume ...
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Fla. death row exoneree to speak at UNM Law School « Artesia News
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Juan Melendez is scheduled Wednesday to address to law school students and faculty about spending 18 years on Florida's death row for a crime he did not commit. Melendez was convicted of a 1983 murder but freed in January 2002 after ...
Artesia News

Web3 new results for Law School
 
Upcoming Auction to Raise Money for Public Interest Fellowships ...
On Friday, March 1, 2013, the annual Public Interest Auction will be held at Yale Law School. The event will take place at 5 p.m. in the Law School's Dining Hall.
www.law.yale.edu/news/16638.htm
SMU Dedman School of Law - 2013 Law School Hooding Ceremony
We are proud of your achievements and so pleased to have you join the thousands of outstanding law school alumni whose careers have taken them to all parts ...
https://www.law.smu.edu/.../2013-Law-School-Hooding-Cere...
Tim Anderson: U. law school continues to innovate, better serve ...
A spate of recent articles published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere and discussed in the blogosphere detailed falling.
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