Feb 5, 2013

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Thomson Reuters Bids Adieu To Law School Publishing
Wall Street Journal (blog)
On Monday the company confirmed that it has sold its law school publishing division—a group that offers casebooks, study aids and other printed materials dispensed via reseller bookstores—to Eureka Growth Capital, a Philadelphia private equity firm.
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Sexual-orientation question to be added to law school's application
ABA Journal
George Washington University Law School will begin asking applicants next year about their sexual orientation. The effort is intended to set up better support services and pair lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students with alumni and mentors, ...
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Ruling allows council to 'flag' disabled Law School Admission Test takers
The National Law Journal
The Law School Admission Council has won the first round in its legal battle against the state of California over a law that seeks to protect disabled Law School Admission Test takers. Sacramento County, Calif., Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei on ...
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Law Schools Opening Across Country Despite Logjam of Lawyers
JDJournal.com
In Fort Wayne, Indiana Tech will open a law school in the fall, making it the fifth in the state. The University of North Texas will open a law school in Dallas in 2014 and it will be just around the corner from Southern Methodist University's Dedman ...
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Student loans: The next housing bubble
Salon
In recent years, law school has become the most striking example of this remarkably perverse system. Consider how American legal education is funded: Law schools calculate a total annual cost of attendance, based on their tuition and the cost of living ...
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Salon
Lecture at Banaras Hindu University's Law School
Times of India
VARANASI: The Law School of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) organised a lecture in 'judicial activism' on Monday. Delivering the lecture, Prof DN Juhar, vice-chancellor of Dr BR Ambedkar University, Agra emphasized the need of judicial reform and said ...
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Law school applicants, two-tier athletics & Arun Smith
Macleans.ca
1. It's not just teacher's college where the number of applicants is falling. Law schools in the United States are in crisis mode after statistics from the Law School Admission Council show that the number of applicants dropped 20 per cent from last ...
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Macleans.ca
Maine Voices: Half a century on, Maine Law reflects on past, prepares for future
Press Herald
It is gratifying to be part of a law school that is so closely connected with the past, present and future leadership of Maine. Our graduates serve as a critical resource to drive economic and policy development statewide. As educators, the thought ...
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Applications down at US schools but Canadian programs holding steady
Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Statistics from the Ontario Universities' Application Centre show that the number of applicants to Ontario law schools in 2012 decreased to 5,063 from 5,125 in 2011 — which is hardly anything to write home about. Bill Flanagan, dean of Queen's ...
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CLARO bringing legal help to debtors
Buffalo Law Journal
With limited funds to finance the program - and a need that is described as being at "crisis level," CLARO is built around utilizing law school students from SUNY Buffalo to work with volunteer attorneys in rendering legal guidance. Tyson Prince is a ...
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The law clerk hiring plan is dead, and good riddance
The National Law Journal
Proponents believed that by pushing back the clerkship hiring date in a coordinated fashion, order could be brought to a chaotic process, and the jarring spectacle of future clerks being hired before the second year of law school would end. But the ...
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The National Law Journal
Connecticut ed reform law disregards parents
Mansfield Today
Last month, a group of parents in California's Adelanto school district succeeded in using that state's Parent Trigger law to convert a chronically low-performing public school into a charter school. It was the first Parent Trigger victory in the ...
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Mansfield Today
Wickham: NAACP fund needs Marshall's tenacity
USA TODAY
When I heard that University of Maryland law school professor Sherrilyn Ifill had taken the reins of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, I was deep into the reading a new book about the early life of Thurgood Marshall. A brilliant civil ...
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O'Melveny & Myers LLP | O'Melveny's Uhland Coaches Berkeley Law School ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
O'Melveny & Myers LLP San Francisco partner and Chair of the Firm's Restructuring Practice Suzzanne Uhland coached the Berkeley Law School team to victory in the Term Sheet Competition portion of the American College of Bankruptcy's Inaugural Law ...
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Despite legal concerns, Iowa City school board to vote on diversity policy
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Students at Kirkwood Elementary School wait in line for their lunches Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the school in Coralville. The Iowa City Community School District's proposed new diversity policy would require schools to be within a certain range of each ...
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The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Bullying spawns law, scrutiny and challenges for area schools
Bakersfield Now
"It's a complete process that now is in place, now that 'Seth's Law' has been passed," Daryl Thiesen explained. He's a prevention programs coordinator with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office. Seth Walsh was the Tehachapi teenager who ...
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Bakersfield Now
Va. House OKs Labor Day school bill, but chances slim
The Virginian-Pilot
Under current law, school divisions must get state approval to open schools before Labor Day. The perennial effort to change the law is supported by the education community but opposed by the travel and tourism industry on grounds that it would hurt ...
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Greetings From Your New Assistant Editorial Overlord
Above the Law
My decision to go to law school went down pretty much like John Cusack's decision to become a hitman in Grosse Pointe Blank, when he explained that his whole career path was chosen because he took a test. Just instead of a service exam I got hooked by ...
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Durham Herald Sun
CHAPEL HILL — Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Harvard Law School, will deliver a five-part lecture series on the modern history of the civil rights movement at Duke Law School during the spring semester. The lectures, to be delivered Feb. 13 and ...
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Mindfulness making its way into the mainstream
MiamiHerald.com
By 2007, he started a company called the Institute for Mindfulness Studies, aimed at working with lawyers. The same year, UM's law school approached him about teaching a pilot mindfulness class. Today, he teaches three courses centered on Mindful ...
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Law clinic offering free legal advice
FIUSM
"The only difference between [the Clinic] and the other courses taught at the Law School is the fact that we have an actual case component to the course. So we have our class, and as part of that class, we actually have cases that the law students work ...
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Georgetown Law Student Pleads Guilty to Leading an Elaborate Meth-Trafficking ...
In The Capital
Letters have been sent to the judge from law school officials, family members, a campus rabbi, and former classmates alike in an attempt to portray Gersen in a respectable light, one where his impressive passion for everything law and social justice ...
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In The Capital
Local law firm offering college scholarships
Mount Vernon News
The Critchfield Law Resident Scholarship is offered for current or former residents of Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Medina or Wayne County who have completed at least one semester of law school. The Critchfield Law Diversity scholarship is offered to a ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on ...
NBCNews.com
In a separate talk at the Northwestern University Law School in March, Attorney General Eric Holder specifically endorsed the constitutionality of targeted killings of Americans, saying they could be justified if government officials determine the ...
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NBCNews.com
Black law students marking anniversaries
Winston-Salem Chronicle
Reynolds American executive Lisa Jeffries Caldwell will keynote the Wake Forest Black Law Students Association's 28th Annual Scholarship Banquet on Friday, Feb. 15. The banquet, which will be held at the school's Benson University Center, is the annual ...
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Winston-Salem Chronicle
Laura Berman Johnson yields to deferred dream
The Detroit News
That's how the ACLU saw it, when the civil rights organization filed a lawsuit in December on behalf of two Dreamers, including a 22-year-old senior at the University of Michigan headed to law school who was granted deferred action status, and two ...
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'Proof of Faith' Lawsuit Could Test Limits of Hosanna-Tabor Ruling
ChristianityToday.com (blog)
But after refusing to fill out the questionnaires, Lynda Serrano and Mary Ellen Guevara were not rehired by the school. They threatened school officials with intent to sue, citing the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, a state law that ...
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NY Governor Cuomo nominates Rivera '82 to state appeals court
The Daily Princetonian
"She's a very serious scholar, someone who takes her work seriously in both teaching and scholarship and her service work to the community," said Michelle J. Anderson, the Dean of CUNY School of Law. "She's someone who is very well respected among ...
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Yes, Facebook May Owe You $10; That Email Isn't a Scam
WebProNews
Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School), Information Law Institute (NYU Law School), Berkeley Center for Law ...
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Religious education under fire across Canada
National Post
But private, Christian Trinity Western University's (TWU) bid to open a law school tells a different story. In a letter to the Federation of Canadian Law Societies, which accredits law schools, Bill Flanagan, president of the Council Association of Law ...
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Blogs8 new results for Law School
 
Texas Law Review to hold annual symposium, "Constitutional
By jnd458
The Texas Law Review has partnered with Professors Alexander Tsesis, of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Sanford Levinson, of the University of Texas School of Law, to host a symposium that will bring together several of the ...
UTLaw Magazine
Nation's First LL.M. in Air and Space Law Launched
By Jenny Kate Luster
Once it receives the necessary approvals, including the American Bar Association acquiescence – expected this month – the the law school will be the first and only ABA-accredited law school in the country to offer the degree. "There are very ...
Ole Miss News
Thomson Reuters Law School Publishing Business Sold to Eureka ...
By Jason Wilson
Paul Caron (TaxProf Blog) writes today that Thomson Reuters has apparently completed the sale of the law school publishing business to the private equity firm,
Jason Wilson
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: Petition in support of academic ...
By Brian Leiter
There is information about recent events at Brooklyn College here and also here (and follow the various links). Brooklyn College President Gould's latest, and strong,...
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Ending Agricultural Use Assessment Abuse : Marquette University ...
By Douglas Hoffer
Home · About; Scholarly Resources · Legal Resources · Marquette Law School. Search for .... The opinions expressed here are those of the individual authors and do not represent the views of Marquette University or its Law School. Subscribe ...
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Jenni's Advising Newsletter Blog: Does Law School Make Sense?
By Jenni Kotowski
Recent changes to the legal market have resulted in much media coverage about the availability of legal jobs, the investment of law school, and the future of legal practice. In this context, does law school make sense? Michael Burns, Dean of ...
Jenni's Advising Newsletter Blog
AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Student Sends Open Letter To ...
By Above the Law
During her last week here at Above the Law, Kashmir Hill and I went out to lunch. In her usual, insightful, Kash way, she said to me, "When you first started here, I thought your hatred for law school and lawyers was just your schtick. Now I see ...
Breaking Media
The Faculty Lounge: The Legal Education Crisis In Context
By Dan Filler
Yesterday's WaPo editorial, Our Shrinking Law Schools, was notable because - unlike the Times, which likes to frame the legal education crisis as a freestanding outrage - the Post put matters in far better context. The shrinking number of law...
The Faculty Lounge

Web7 new results for Law School
 
Avoiding law school in droves - Connecticut Law Tribune
As of mid-January, law school applications have dropped 20 percent from last year (and 2012 was hardly a banner year itself, as the number of applicants fell by ...
www.ctlawtribune.com/PubArticleCT.jsp?id=1202585810784
Law school applications continue to plummet - The Business Journals
The number of people applying to go to U.S. law schools is down by 20 percent so...
www.bizjournals.com/.../law-school-applications-continue-to.h...
List of law schools in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of law schools in China. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. This is a list of law schools in the People's Republic of China.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_in_China
Masters of Laws (LLM) for Foreign Law Graduates | Law School
The faculty and staff go beyond their calls of duty to help and guide you through law school. Because law school can be extremely overwhelming, especially ...
https://www.law.hawaii.edu/llm-admissions
Law school applications plunge - Overlawyered
As recently as 2004 law school applications numbered nearly 100,000, and three years ago the figure stood around the mid-80s. Now it's plunged to a projected ...
overlawyered.com/2013/01/law-school-applications-plunge/
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: Law School Faculty Lateral Hiring
I'm gathering a list of all law school lateral faculty moves over at the Faculty Lounge. Check the new post out here and make sure...
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/.../law-school-faculty-lateral-hirin...
New Law School Research Center to Focus on Reproductive Rights
Despite the huge political controversy over reproductive freedom and abortion rights, law schools haven't much emphasized the underlying legal issues. A 2010 ...
www.lawjobs.com/.../LawArticle.jsp?id...New_Law...


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