Apr 24, 2013

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OUR OPINION: UND Law School's renovation needs approval
Grand Forks Herald
For the sake of all North Dakotans, who depend on the graduates of their law school to staff courtrooms and serve residents' legal needs throughout the state, funding for the $12 million project must be assured. The conference committee should approve ...
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George Bunn dead at 87; former UW-Madison Law School dean led nuclear ...
Wisconsin State Journal
When he became dean in 1972, the law school was getting $1,150 from the state for each student compared to $7,500 per student for the medical school, he said. Later, the Law School got a $150 increase per student, while the medical school got a $2,000 ...
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LMU announces new degrees, admission program for Knoxville law school
Knoxville News Sentinel
Lincoln Memorial University officials announced Tuesday a new leadership center and degree programs they hope will bolster its downtown Knoxville law school, which has been struggling to achieve accreditation and battling a decline in enrollment.
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New SLU Law School Dean Faces Uphill Battle
JDJournal.com
St. Louis University's law school has faced a number of challenges over the last three years, but new dean Michael Wolff is hopeful that he can help turn things around. Wolff will be the fourth dean the school has hired since 2010, and he hopes that he ...
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Susman Godfrey announces the recipients of its 2013 1L Women and Minority ...
Wall Street Journal
Y. Carson Zhou attends law school at Columbia University, and earned his B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of British Columbia. Before attending law school, Zhou worked for the Human Rights Advocacy Center in Accra, Ghana. There, he ...
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New Report Suggests Ways to Fix Legal Education
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
A combination of rising law school tuition, underemployment and the work done by policy organization Law School Transparency, authors and educators Paul Campos and Brian Tamanaha and many others – coupled with a marked decline in law school ...
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U.S. News & World Report (blog)
AG investigating UT Law School Foundation over transparency
Austin Business Journal (blog)
The program, which broke no laws, was ruled inappropriate for a public university last year by the UT System, and it was recommended that no compensation flow directly to faculty members from the foundation and instead first pass through the Law School ...
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U of Texas put 'golden handcuffs' on law faculty with help of $213M private ...
ABA Journal
As the state attorney general continues to look into the operations of a private nonprofit foundation that helped raise money for the University of Texas Law School, details are emerging about the "golden handcuffs" that discouraged faculty from going ...
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Manatee County school board stuck on legal decision
Bradenton Herald
FILE: Manatee County School Board Attorney John Bowen listens to public comments during a special meeting of the Manatee County School Board as it addresses the 2012-2013 final annual budget Monday at the school administration building in ...
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Bradenton Herald
Environmental justice forum focuses on a healthier Buffalo
UB News Center
"This forum will showcase the on-the-ground work being done by UB Law School students and faculty that's changing lives here in Buffalo while becoming a model for next-generation environmental justice elsewhere in the nation." Kim Diana Connolly ...
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Florida Coastal may refund students money under new program
Florida Times-Union
Leaders at Florida Coastal School of Law are confident they can train students to get legal jobs. So confident that now they're willing to put money on it. Under a new program starting this fall, the Jacksonville law school will refund students a ...
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2013 Nalsarites bag record 8 foreign firm offers & LLMs, as 74 out of 80 ...
Legally India
Nalsar Hyderabad has placed 66 out of 80 students graduating from the law school this year after its recruitment coordination committee (RCC) secured 69 job offers for its members to date, while eight will go on to take LLM degrees abroad. The lion's ...
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Harvard law professor shares ideas for fixing campaign financing at Montclair ...
NorthJersey.com
LITTLE FALLS — A Harvard Law School professor told a Montclair State University audience Tuesday night that "democracy is broken" and a system of "institutional corruption" has paralyzed government at all levels. Professor Lawrence Lessig, the author ...
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Tex. Investigating Law School's Use of Funds From Foundation
Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) (blog)
The probe focuses on the university's use of money it receives from the University of Texas Law School Foundation, particularly the nonprofit group's now-discontinued provision of forgivable personal loans to law professors on the recommendation of the ...
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Survey shows more pre-law students seek nontraditional fields
The Independent Florida Alligator
Last year, 991 UF students applied to law school, but not all of them planned to follow the traditional route. According to a survey released by Kaplan Test Prep two weeks ago, 50 percent of pre-law students wanted to use their law degree in a ...
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Law school to host May 1 'listening conference' for Illinois Supreme Court ...
NIU Today
Law school to host May 1 'listening conference' for Illinois Supreme Court Access to Justice. Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride and Jennifer L. Rosato, dean of the NIU College of Law. Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride, Justice ...
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Judge Scirica to be Community School speaker
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
A graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut and the University of Michigan Law School, Scirica studied law at Central University in Caracas, Venezuela on a Fulbright Scholarship. He practiced law in Montgomery County, Pa., where he also served as ...
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Thousands of students enjoy field trip to see Lugnuts on Grand Slam School Day
MLive.com
LANSING, MI – Students from more than two dozen mid-Michigan schools enjoyed a day at the ballpark Tuesday as the Lansing Lugnuts hosted the Dayton Dragons at Cooley Law School Stadium. The occasion was the first of two Grand Slam School Days, ...
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Why religious schools shouldn't get funding
Macleans.ca
More recently, the law community has had its briefs in a knot over Trinity Western's push to get a law school. Can a school that requires adherence to a rigid code of belief really educate good lawyers whose very stock in trade is free and open discussion?
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Keighley student in law work place prize
Keighley News
A Keighley law student has received a coveted award enabling her to take part in a summer work placement. Rana Begum is among just four students from Leeds University Law School chosen to be given a Pamela Walsh Peaker Memorial Prize. The award ...
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Top Law Firms Hired More Law School Graduates in 2012 than 2011
CollegeRecruiter.com (blog) (press release)
If you already graduated or are about to graduate from law school, then you may find more job opportunities at top law firms. The good news, more graduates were hired by these firms in 2012 than in 2011. Learn more in the following post. With the ...
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Rhodes scholar to deliver Unity College's commencement address
Kennebec Journal
James Gustave Speth, a Rhodes scholar who joined the faculty of Vermont Law School in 2010, was announced as the speaker in a statement Tuesday from Unity. The theme of Speth's presentation will be "Caring: for the planet, communities and each other." ...
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Kennebec Journal
NIU College of Law Honors Ryan Dowd as Outstanding Alumni of the Year
Chicago Tribune
NIU law school was incredibly important in my professional and personal development. It really nurtures individuals with a public interest law focus, which allowed me to take a non-traditional route with my law degree," said Ryan Dowd, who now serves ...
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Quicker route to JD, uniform bar exam on ABA task force agenda; session will ...
ABA Journal
Should law school be shortened with lower credit or time requirements for a JD? Should bar admissions officials offer the bar exam before law school graduation? Or create a unified national licensing system to reduce entry costs for new lawyers? Or ...
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City attorney Eileen Wicklund to retire next month
Battle Creek Enquirer
And despite her father being a lawyer, she said she hadn't given law school much thought — mainly because, she was set on embarking on a different career. "I was in nursing school and during my junior year, I decided that wasn't really for me ...
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The John Marshall Law School in Chicago Hosts the First International BRICS ...
PR Web (press release)
(PRWEB) April 24, 2013. The John Marshall Law School in Chicago is the first United States organization to host the annual BRICS Intellectual Property Conference on global developments. This is the fifth time experts representing Brazil, Russia, India ...
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IIM set for its first director from overseas
Indian Express
Nanda, currently Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, is an IIM-A alumnus. Sources said the Human Resource Development Ministry has chosen him from a list of three, in which the other two academics, Prof Rakesh Basant and Prof ...
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Senate drone hearing challenges "targeted kill" claims
Salon
Just last week a formidable group of human rights advocates and legal experts including the ACLU, Amnesty International, clinics from NYU School of Law and Columbia Law School among others, wrote to the president to challenge the "accountability and ...
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Colorado fracking database questioned
Denver Post
The online database that Colorado employs for disclosing the ingredients in fracking fluids used in drilling oil and gas wells is seriously flawed, according to a Harvard Law School study. The analysis, done by the school's environmental policy ...
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North Central Voters Guide: 5 are in race for 3 Olmos Park council seats
San Antonio Express
Ronald Hornberger is an attorney with the firm Plunkett and Gibson, having studied at the University of Texas School of Law. He took 26 hours of accounting post-law school to broaden his law practice options. He is chairman-elect of the Alternate ...
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You'd Better Go a Long Way, Baby; Writer Insists That 'Female Ivy League ...
NewsBusters (blog)
Here is just one sample: "I do consider any Harvard Law School degree obtained by a woman who then chooses not to use it in any sort of professional capacity throughout most of her life a wasted opportunity. That degree could have gone to a woman who ...
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The Legal Case
WBUR
Guests. Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge and a professor at Harvard Law School. Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School. You can find his recent comments on the case here.
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Robert Weeden Applegate, Esq.
Herkimer Evening Telegram
Bob was a graduate of Ilion High School, class of 1971, and earned his bachelor's degree in English from Hamilton College, where he was a member of the class of 1975. Bob received his degree from Albany Law School in 1979. After graduating from law ...
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Kan. innovative school district law signed
San Francisco Chronicle
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law will designate some school districts as innovative and make them exempt from certain state education rules. The law, signed Monday, establishes a pilot program that will allow 10 percent of the state's 286 school ...
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Public defender takes on big task in Boston bombing case
San Jose Mercury News
Conrad, who attended Northwestern University's journalism school in Chicago and worked at the Miami Herald before graduating from Harvard Law School in 1987, declined to be interviewed for this article. In an interview with the Rhode Island Lawyers ...
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Fracking disclosure site has 'serious deficiencies,' study says
Dallas Morning News
A government-mandated website on which oil and gas companies list chemicals they pump into the ground at hydraulic fracturing sites has "serious deficiencies," according to a study by Harvard Law School released Tuesday. The study found FracFocus.org ...
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What If They Treated Gene Patents Like Nautical Charts?
Forbes
But a Cornell Law School scholar suggests the court should take another approach, one that has been around for at least 250 years over another type of intellectual property that is strikingly similar to a gene sequence: Charts and maps. A human gene is ...
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Fracking disclosure site contains "serious deficiencies," Harvard study says
Dallas Morning News (blog)
A government mandated website on which oil and gas companies disclose what chemicals they pump into the ground through hydraulic fracturing techniques has "serious deficiencies," according to a study by the Harvard Law School released Tuesday.
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Dallas Morning News (blog)
Why a Homemade Bomb is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... terms however it wants, whether they have any relationship to common usage," says David Cole, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University Law School and a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who spoke to Law ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Who’s Teaching Your Children? You Might Be Shocked
Dallas Blog (blog)
You see, while law school teaching gigs have been increasingly difficult to come by in the traditional manner, being publicly disgraced, disbarred, or even convicted of a felony seems to be the fast track nowadays to the academy. Forced to resign from ...
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The Mayor and His Map : Marquette University Law School Faculty ...
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Home · About; Scholarly Resources · Legal Resources · Marquette Law School. Search for: ... Jillian Galloway on Does Federal Law Actually Preempt Relaxed State Marijuana Laws? Steven Cochran on Does Federal Law Actually Preempt ...
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Web4 new results for Law School
 
Law School Do-Over: 7 Things I'd Do Different - Lawyerist is a blog
Don't we all wish for a do-over? If I could do law school over again, here's what I'd do.
lawyerist.com/law-school-do-over-7-things/
Former Law School Dean John Sutton Passes Away | News
"Dean Sutton was a wonderful man who led the Law School with distinction. He was a dear friend for more than three decades, a first-rate teacher and evidence ...
www.utexas.edu/.../former-law-school-dean-john-sutton-passe...
Tuesday's Game Against Ball State Moved to Cooley Law School ...
Due to field conditions and the flooding of the Red Cedar River, Tuesday's contest against Ball State has been moved to Cooley Law School Stadium in Lansing.
www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-basebl/spec.../042213aab.htm...
TaxProf Blog: Rapoport Reviews Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools
Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor (Spring 2013) Pepperdine University School of Law • Profile Herzog Summer Visiting Prof. in Tax'n (Summer 2013) ...
taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/.../rapoport-reviews.html


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