Apr 3, 2013

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Cooley Law School eyes alliance with public university
The National Law Journal
The Thomas M. Cooley Law School could become the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School in the not-too-distant future. Leaders from the county's largest law school and from Western Michigan University—located in Kalamazoo, Mich.
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The National Law Journal
The Real Problem With Law Schools
Slate Magazine
A crisis is looming in legal education. Last month, a notable group of legal educators who call themselves the Coalition of Concerned Colleagues released a letter declaring that law schools have spewed forth more graduates than the legal market can ...
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Slate Magazine
William And Mary Law School Went On High Alert Over Class Exercise
Huffington Post
Administrators at William and Mary Law School put the institution on high alert Monday after a student informed them of a rumor about what might have been -- but wasn't -- a mass shooter's warning, AbovetheLaw.com reports. The website published an ...
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Women's group slams Gaza law on school segregation
The Reporter
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A new Gaza law mandating separate classrooms for boys and girls from age 9 and up is another worrisome sign that the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers are gradually imposing their fundamentalist practices, the head ...
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The Most Overrated and Underrated Law Schools
Above the Law
Some people love the U.S. News law school rankings, and some people (read: law school deans who fear for the safety of their jobs) hate them. Those that love them often perform well and rise to the top of the list every year, while those who hate them ...
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Above the Law
Law school grads, out of work, sue schools
UPI.com
Lieberman enrolled in Los Angeles' Southwestern Law School after learning 97 percent of its graduates were employed within nine months of graduation. He graduated in 2009 and passed the bar examination but could not find work. He now works as a field ...
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University of Michigan Law School Staying the Course with Admissions
JDJournal.com
Over the past three years, applications to the University of Michigan Law School have declined, but the school is staying the course, according to Ann Arbor.com. Sarah Zearfoss, the law school admissions director, said that the school is not changing ...
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Law Schools Providing Aid for Military Veterans to Obtain Legal Education
JDJournal.com
In the fall of 2013, Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School are maxing their contributions to a government matching plan called the Yellow Ribbon program. The program gives veterans who qualify additional ...
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Resident earns honors at Cooley Law School
Gladwin County Record
LANSING – Rebecca Gean, of Gladwin, made the Dean's List and Honor Roll during the Fall Term 2012 at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Discuss; Print. Posted in Academic on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:55 am. | Tags: Thomas M. Cooley Law School, ...
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WMU, Cooley Law discuss formal alliance
WOOD-TV
"The result of such an affiliation with Cooley would make our University one of fewer than 90 universities in the nation to have both a law school and school of medicine," said WMU President John M. Dunn in a news release. "The benefits that accrue ...
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Western Michigan University considers formal alliance with Cooley Law School
Mlive Kalamazoo
Both schools would retain their independence, governance structure and separate fiduciary responsibilities. Cooley would become the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, continuing as an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) entity, ...
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Lost homework misconstrued as threat at W&M Law School
Virginia Gazette
WILLIAMSBURG – A lost homework assignment that was misinterpreted as a threat had law school administration and campus police scrambling for answers Sunday and Monday at the William and Mary Law School. Spokeswoman Suzanne Seurattan ...
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WMU considers partnership with law school to form Western Michigan University ...
Western Herald
"About three years ago, I began informal discussions with Don LeDuc, president and dean of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, which is based in Lansing. What began as a casual conversation has evolved into something with the potential to further elevate ...
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Duke law mourns student killed in crash
Durham Herald Sun
The law school is mourning the death of third-year student Andrew Katbi, who was one of three people killed in a massive chain-reaction crash Sunday that involved nearly 100 vehicles along a mountainous, foggy stretch of Interstate 77 near the North ...
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Pa. Superior Court Takes Its Bench On The Road, To Univ. of Pennsylvania Law ...
CBS Local
April 2, 2013 3:11 PM. View Comments. (A sign invites observers to a session of Pennsylvania Superior Court at Penn Law School. Photographing the session was prohibited by law. Credit: John Ostapkovich). John Ostapkovich. Reporting John Ostapkovich ...
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CBS Local
Law School — Not Just Oversold, But Fraudulently So
National Review Online (blog)
Major newspapers have been jumping on the bandwagon of angry law school graduate stories and the latest is this piece in the Los Angeles Times. Have schools that made it sound as though getting a J.D. there was a sure-fire path to success committed ...
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Google Chief Legal Officer to Speak at Santa Clara University School of Law ...
PYMNTS.com
"We are honored to welcome David Drummond back to Santa Clara to serve as this year's law commencement speaker," said Santa Clara University School of Law Dean Donald Polden. "His proven ability to balance legal and ethical considerations at one of ...
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Local Man Dies In Virginia Pile Up Just Weeks Before Graduating Law School ...
Indiana's NewsCenter
VIRGINIA (www.incnow.tv) -- A man from Delphos, Ohio is among the dead in that massive car pile-up Sunday in Carroll County, Virginia. Police say 24-year-old Andrew Katbi was driving a car that rear ended a semi in the southbound lanes of I-77.
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Indiana's NewsCenter
Free law clinic at Pitt named for Derrick Bell
New Pittsburgh Courier
In the 1950s, Derrick Bell attended the University of Pittsburgh in pursuit of his law degree. He would later go on to become the first tenured African-American Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and now, after a life of accomplishment, the Hill ...
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Club of the Week: Pre-Law
KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper
The Pre-Law Club at KSU is a one-stop shop for any student interested in working in the legal field. It is dedicated to supporting and assisting students throughout their process of applying to law school. The club helps with the two major factors in ...
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Drexel to offer 2-year 'Fast-Forward' juris doctor degree program
ABA Journal
The program will cost the same as a traditional three-year degree, will require students to earn the same number of credits, and "they'll have the same opportunities with respect to experiential education, law review, moot court, trial team," Law ...
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Bingaman to Assume Stanford Energy Fellowship
ABQ Journal
Jeff Bingaman, who retired from the Senate in January after a 36-year career, is headed to Stanford University Law School to lead an effort to promote clean energy use. In unrelated news, Bingaman is scheduled to introduce Ernest Moniz, President Obama ...
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What the overabundance of lawyers means for today's law students
Memphis Business Journal (blog)
As if that data wasn't evidence enough, a March 11 letter from Daniel B. Rodriguez, dean of the Northwestern University School of Law described the challenges facing legal education, not least of which were outsourcing of legal professionals and ...
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Justice Ginsburg's Misdirection
New York Times
It is not the judgment that was wrong, but "it moved too far, too fast," she said at Columbia Law School last year, a view she has expressed in various speeches and law review articles. As one of the court's moderate liberals and a champion of women's ...
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Women Lead the Way in White-Collar Law
New York Times (blog)
Kathleen F. Brickey of Washington University in St. Louis, the dean of the field, having written the first law school text on the subject and later a multivolume treatise that came out long before corporate criminal liability became a topic of public ...
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New York Times (blog)
Woodbury High School Grad Named to Ultimate National Team
Patch.com
Sandy Jorgensen is a member of the DC Scandal team, which placed third at nationals last year. She is currently attending Georgetown Law School and expects to graduate in May. Jorgensen has accepted a position with the Stewart and Stewart law firm.
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Lake Forest High School adds 3 graduates to wall of fame
Chicago Tribune
Pelinka graduated from Lake Forest High School in 1988 and the University of Michigan Business and Law Schools. He founded Landmark Sports Agency and became a sports agent representing icons like Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant, according to the ...
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UWindsor law students propose tuition reduction
Canadian University Press Newswire
"Windsor Law's tuition is actually very reasonable by Ontario standards," said Camille Cameron, dean of Windsor Law. "At some point just before it was decided that there would be a freeze on the extent to which law schools could raise their tuition ...
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Walter Olson: "The laundering of evil"
Power Line (blog)
In his book Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and Overlawyered America (Encounter, 2011), Cato Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson writes about the propensity of sixties extremists (Bernardine Dohrn, Angela Davis, etc.) to turn up on the law school ...
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Gunner Storms Out Of Class, Sends Pissy Email To His Law Professor
Above the Law
But trust me, at the heart of this story, this kid is making a reasonable point about law school and the value of in-class lectures. Luckily for us, he's making that point by acting like a petulant, entitled law student, one who drew the ire of his ...
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Above the Law
Douglas Noll's New Online Legal Negotiation and Mediation Advocacy Course ...
PR Web (press release)
As an adjunct professor of law and mentor to young lawyers, my solution was to create an online course to teach emotional intelligence, problem solving and legal negotiation. With these skills, which are not taught in law school, lawyers will have the ...
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PR Web (press release)
Who Are Chicago's Happiest Law Students?
Above the Law
This is the third in a series of posts looking at how law schools in specific markets stack up based on the results of our ATL Insider Survey. Very few law schools are truly national institutions. Typically, the majority of graduates don't stray too ...
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USD to Honor Distinguished Alumni, Including Former Poway Mayor
Patch.com
Goldsmith will be given an Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award for law school graduates. As an attorney, Goldsmith specialized in business litigation before becoming a judge, the first directly elected mayor of Poway and a three-term assemblyman.
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First Amendment's 'Dark Side' topic of lecture
The Livingston County News
Shiffrin is the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He began his law school teaching career at UCLA in 1977. He has been a visiting professor of law at Boston University, Harvard University, Seattle University, and the ...
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Court Says DoJ Destroyed Proof of Political Hiring
Courthouse News Service
(CN) - The Department of Justice knowingly destroyed evidence that top-ranked law school graduates were not hired during the second Bush administration because of their presumed liberal leanings, the D.C. Circuit ruled. In 2006, three top-ranked law ...
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Obama administration seeking to deport Christian homeschooling family
Washington Free Beacon
German law mandates that children attend a public or state-approved school. The local mayor informed the family that they would face fines and could lose the custody of their children if they did not attend school. The parents also faced potential jail ...
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Walkers calls Caymanian attorneys
Caymanian Compass
He commenced his legal studies at the Truman Bodden Law School in 2006 and obtained his LLB Honours degree from the University of Liverpool in 2009. Nikhil went on to complete the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, Morgate in London in ...
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NRA study suggests trained, armed school staffers - Business, Government ...
State Journal
Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, said while a trained law enforcement officer with a gun would be valuable, his group opposes arming "a teacher or an employee who simply has taken a course and now ...
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With affirmative action, the educational system reflects national values, By ...
The Keene Sentinel
In Grutter, the court held that Michigan's law school had a compelling interest in attaining a diverse student body — and that its aim of enrolling a "critical mass" of minority students was crucial to realizing the benefits of diversity. The critical ...
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Law And More: Drexel Law School: Provides option, no real solution ...
By Jane Genova
Beginning in Summer 2014, Drexel Law School is offering a two-year program leading to the JD. As the LEGAL INTELLIGENCER reports, it does not downsize the number of credits and the tuition/fee costs are the same as in the three-year...
Law And More

Web5 new results for Law School
 
Law School Graduates Continue to Face Brutal Entry-Level Market
Established in 2009, Law School Transparency is a nonprofit legal education policy organization. Our mission is to improve consumer information and to reform ...
www.lawschooltransparency.com/.../law-school-graduates-con...
Jobless law school graduates sue their alma maters - CBS News ...
CBS News video: Jobless law school graduates sue their alma maters - More than a dozen law ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144135n
Law School Coalition Aims To Mitigate Campus Gender Disparities ...
In response to statistics revealing gender skew in Harvard Law School clubs and classrooms, a new coalition called Shatter the Ceiling has drawn hundreds of ...
www.thecrimson.com/article/.../hls-coalition-gender-disparities...
Government Data Reveal Freestanding Private Law Schools ...
An analysis of U.S. Education Department federal loan volume data shows how rapidly the country's nearly two dozen stand-alone private law schools are ...
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Law School - Commemorating the Legacy of Hon. Philip D. Roache ...
The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development and the Law School Alumni Association Alumni of Color Chapter cordially invite you to ...
www.stjohns.edu/.../ev_law_130322.event@digest.stjohns.edu...


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