Feb 8, 2013

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Caption Contest: The Law School With The Worst Social Life
Above the Law
Last night, we presented our readers with the top-ranked law schools for best social life — party schools, if you will. Everyone oohed and ahhed, and wondered why they hadn't enrolled at those particular schools. But if it had been a ranking of the ...
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Above the Law
Why are numbers down at law schools?
Minnesota Lawyer
They all headed to law school for different reasons and ended up at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and graduate in May. Three months away from that big day, one has landed a job. They are part of the class that some in legal education think ...
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Thomson Reuters sells Eagan-based law school books business
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
Thomson Reuters has sold its law school publishing business to Eureka Growth Capital, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm. Eureka partnered with members of the business unit's management team to make the acquisition. Terms of the deal weren't ...
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Law school sues over California's bar-passage mandate
The National Law Journal
A rule that requires state-accredited law schools in California to maintain bar passage rates of at least 40 percent has prompted a federal lawsuit. The Southern California Institute of Law filed suit on February 4 against 22 sitting and former members ...
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New law school program seeks to connect students and startups
Silicon Prairie News
"This pretty much embodies exactly why I came to law school. It puts it into practice," clinic student Jared Rector said. He and his classmates will meet weekly for a seminar component that features speakers, from young entrepreneurs to veteran ...
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New bar passage rate requirement for accreditation prompts law school to sue ...
ABA Journal
A California law school is suing state bar officials over a new bar passage rate requirement that it says could cost the school its accreditation. The Southern California Institute of Law, which has campuses in Santa Barbara and Ventura, claims the new ...
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CardSmith enhancing Florida Costal Law School ID
CR80News
Florida Coastal School of Law and campus card service provider CardSmith have announced plans to introduce the "Coastal Card," an enhancement to the law school's campus ID. Scheduled to go live in February, the card will offer students, faculty and ...
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What are the Top 5 law schools with a social life?
ABA Journal
Washington University School of Law in St. Louis ranks number one for having a social life, according to a recent study by GraduatePrograms.com. The website details graduate programs by location, programs and student reviews, and its social life ...
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No gay-free law school should stand in Canada
Globe and Mail
Trinity Western University, a private, Christian school in Langley, B.C., is seeking to open a law school. The school requires that all students and faculty sign a pledge to abstain from "sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between ...
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Lakehead law school hires first new faculty
Canadian Lawyer Magazine
"One thing is clear: Lakehead University's ability to attract such quality people bodes well for the future of this law school," said founding law dean Lee Stuesser in announcing the new hires earlier this week. "I'm very excited how our law school's ...
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The Molly Pitcher Project
Virginia Law Weekly
For the members of the Molly Pitcher Project—Ariel Linet, Kyle Mallinak, Rebecca Cohn, and Helen O'Beirne—January 9th 2013 marked the end of a commitment that had colored, if not defined, their Law School experiences. Since the spring of their 1L ...
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Jim Chosy Returns to US Bancorp Legal Dept., This Time as GC
Corporate Counsel
When Chosy graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, he went to work at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis. There, he worked with Mitau, who was then a senior partner at the firm. When Mitau left Dorsey to join U.S. Bancorp, he recruited ...
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Candidate Bios
Virginia Law Weekly
The Law Weekly is continuing its tradition of providing a forum for the SBA Executive Board candidates to put their opinions in print. The candidates have written short statements about themselves and their views on the issues confronting the law school.
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Student aims to change Afghan legal system
Old Gold & Black
Hafizullah Hamid, 29, an international student from Afghanistan hopes to take what he learns at Wake Forest University School of Law and apply it to help reform Afghanistan's law system. Hamid was born in Mazar-e Sharif, in the northern part of ...
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Q&A: John Sweeney
New York Law Journal (registration)
Sweeney, 57, was, ironically, Rensselaer County's STOP-DWI coordinator in the late 1980s when, well into his 30s and with two young children, he decided to attend law school. He enrolled in the Western New England School of Law because it was within ...
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New York Law Journal (registration)
How Schools Recover From Trauma
WBUR
A law school near Ground Zero in New York City discovered it no longer had a record of students, after its computer system was destroyed on 9/11. Schools in New Orleans post-Katrina watched as high schoolers started sucking their thumbs.
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Law student receives public service award
Daily Helmsman
Martin will also be overseeing the law school's Alternative Spring Break program this year, which offers students a chance to use their time off from school as a way to give back to the community. He hopes law students will soon be using ASB to satisfy ...
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View From Here
Garden City News
When I was an undergraduate at Columbia 40 years ago, it was a much less risky choice to major in an "impractical" subject like history, the one I chose, because there always the possibility of using the liberal arts training as a springboard for law ...
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KU School of Law hosts symposium on immigration policy
Kansas.com
Policymakers and scholars will try to define what it means to be an American at an upcoming symposium discussing immigration at the Kansas School of Law, the university said in a statement. The symposium will be from 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in ...
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Labor law judge sides with Medford school workers
kgw.com
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — An administrative judge has sided with the classified employees of the Medford School District in an unfair labor practice complaint filed against the district. The Mail Tribune (http://bit.ly/V1ddXD) reports the complaint with ...
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Growth spurs $15 million academic center at Indiana Tech
News Sentinel
With its $15 million law school still under construction, Indiana Tech is poised for another project of similar design and cost. The school has asked the city Plan Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals for permission to build a 60,000-square-foot ...
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Police, school officials share plans in case of school shootings
The Olympian
Law enforcement and school officials from across Thurston County gathered Thursday to consider the unthinkable - how prepared are they to respond to an active school shooter like the one who killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in ...
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Cary Discusses Defending Senator Stevens
Virginia Law Weekly
Cary, a 1990 graduate of the Law School, is a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP. He defended Stevens in 2008 against ethics charges of seven counts of false statements. Stevens was a United States Senator representing Alaska from 1968-2009.
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Wealthy voucher supporters spend big bucks in Supreme Court race
Capital Times
19 primary is expected to eliminate one of Roggensack's rivals, law professor Ed Fallone or attorney Vince Megna. "School choice was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court so we're always interested in what's going on," says Terry Brown, the president ...
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More Law Enforcement Presence In Area Schools
WCHS
Schools in Kanawha County will be seeing a greater law enforcement presence in the coming week. The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department currently has three resource officers going around to schools in the county. Kanawha County Commissioner Dave ...
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Touro Law Center Starts Disaster Relief Clinic
New York Law Journal (registration)
Of that, $80,000 came from the Robin Hood Foundation's Sandy-specific relief fund, and $50,000 came from Reva and Martin Oliner. Mr. Oliner, an international tax attorney, is a member of Touro College's executive board and has taught at the law school.
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Legal careers of the future
International Supermarket News
Manchester Law School, part of MMU, will work alongside The Co-operative Legal Services to design and create the new Learning Academy, set to be launched in September, which will offer employees in all career paths the opportunity to progress and ...
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Carlisle Area School District school absences decline
The Sentinel
By law, school districts are required to notify parents or guardians of a need for a joint conference between the school and family upon the third unlawful student absence, Rauscher said. He explained how the conference engages all participants in the ...
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Blogs4 new results for Law School
 
The Collapsing Demand for Law School | HESA
By Alex Usher
If there is one place bucking the worldwide trend of rising higher education enrolments, it's American law schools. As the New York Times noted last week, demand for US law schools is down by something like 40% over the last two years.
HESA
Opus Prize Winners: Huge Humanitarian Impact from Doing What Is ...
By Alan J. Borsuk
"If you're not going, the rest of us are in trouble," responded Gousha, Marquette Law School's distinguished fellow in law and public policy. Gousha's logic was simple: Who among us measures up to people such as Barankitse? Who can say ...
Marquette University Law School...
Traditional Psychiatry: Anachronism, like defaulting to law school
By Jane Genova
Like many professional lines of work, psychiatry had its time in the sun. Under that umbrella, of course, was clinical psychology which also attracted bright people who we assumed had an inside track on the human mind and heart. Now,...
Law And More
Legal Lasso: Snow-pocalypse Edition | Law Week Colorado
By msatrom
FINDING A NATIONAL STAGE: DU Law Dean Martin Katz, whose response to the New York Times article about not attending law school was covered by the ABA Journal. [AND THE LAW SCHOOL RESURGENCE ISN'T OVER, says this ...
Law Week Colorado

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Law School Bids Farewell to A.W. Clausen ('49) - U of MN Law School
Law School Bids Farewell to A.W. Clausen ('49). JANUARY 28, 2013—Alden Winship "Tom" Clausen ('49), a former executive with Bank of America and the ...
www.law.umn.edu/.../law-school-bids-farewell-to-aw-clausen-...
Our shrinking law schools - Washington Post - Collections ...
THERE'S MORE startling news about the impact of expensive tuition and poor job prospects on higher education. According to the Law School Admission ...
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Law School News—Optimistic and Smug - The Careerist
Law schools are like cockroaches. Plus, a look at the personality profiles of lawyer wannabes.
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