Apr 8, 2013

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Weighing Multiple Law School Admission Offers
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
As thousands of law school applicants receive their decision letters or emails this spring, they face an often difficult decision regarding which school to attend. Whether you applied to five or 15 law schools, the decision can cause anxiety as you ...
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U.S. News & World Report (blog)
New UC law school bad idea
Fresno Bee
The report went on to admonish UC Irvine on its cost projections, saying they were "questionable because the need for a new public law school has not been demonstrated by the evidence contained in the proposal." UC -- both its Irvine campus and the ...
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Law schools get taste of own medicine
Stockton Record
The old tiresome joke goes like this: "How can you tell if a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving." Apparently, that's the legal standard being applied to law schools being sued by their graduates who claim they were lied to about their prospects for a ...
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Law School Exam Prep Tips: Where Should I Be With Just a Couple of Weeks ...
Above the Law
The answer to the question of where you should be with just a couple of weeks until finals is "it depends." Of course, every law student knows that almost every question can be answered with "it depends," so the following will discuss what it depends ...
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Above the Law
Cardozo Law School Awards Jimmy Carter in the Shadow of Holocaust
American Thinker (blog)
Cardozo Law School is part of Yeshiva University. YU's mission statement repeatedly emphasizes the need to bring "wisdom to life," teaching "ethical and moral values" and states, "[w]e bring wisdom to life by combining the finest contemporary academic ...
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Quinnipiac Law School grads use 'low bono' practices
New Haven Register
Quinnipiac U. Law school graduates Virginia Jijon-Caamano (cq) of Darien, Brian Young of Monroe, and Danielle Briand of Easton are spreading the word about "low-bono," or legal work for lower income folks. They were photographed in the QU law school.
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Columbia law professor named next NYU School of Law dean
NYU Washington Square News
Columbia Law School professor and constitutional law expert Trevor Morrison will replace Richard Revesz as dean of the NYU Law School — big shoes to fill, some would say, since Revesz has served as dean of the law school for the past 11 years ...
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Nearly half of 2011 law grads can't afford a house, law prof concludes
ABA Journal
Organ used a formula developed by University of Louisville law professor Jim Chen, who says that law grads need an annual salary equal to two-thirds of their law school debt to reach marginal financial viability. Organ's analysis took into account ...
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ABA Journal
Law Schools Shrink Amid Slump in Applications, Job Market
Nashville Public Radio
Vandy Law Dean Chris Guthrie admits the prospects don't look good. Reports suggest law schools are training two lawyers for every job. So incoming classes are smaller at private Vanderbilt, and at state programs in Memphis and Knoxville, as well as the ...
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Drug companies questioned over Australian patent system
The Queensland Times
GENERIC drug companies may be abusing the patent system, according to new research showing the practice is potentially costing Australia's health system billions of dollars. Melbourne Law School examined the patents for 15 high-cost drugs in Australia ...
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Covington, Morgan Lewis, Shearman: Business of Law
Businessweek
"I am very pleased that Trevor Morrison will be NYU Law's next dean," NYU President John Sexton said in the statement. Sexton, who was dean of the law school from 1988 to 2002, picked Morrison from a slate of candidates prepared by a search committee.
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Climate experts at UB for Arctic conference
Buffalo Law Journal
"Climate change is slowly transforming the planet," says Kim Diana Connolly, professor at SUNY Buffalo Law School. "In 2012, the peer-reviewed Arctic Report Card revealed that new records were set for sea ice extent, terrestrial snow extent and ...
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Osama Bin Laden's Son-In-Law Set To Appear In NY Court
NPR
"The Abu Ghaith case is important for a lot of reasons," says Karen Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. "And one of the things that is interesting is that this case turns away from Guantanamo. "If we were ...
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NPR
Tech School of Law hosts 7th annual Criminal Law Symposium
The Daily Toreador (registration)
Christopher Slobogin, director of the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt, spoke as part of a panel for the Juveniles and the Criminal Law Symposium presented by the Texas Tech Law Review Board on Friday at the School of Law. The panel discussion ...
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NLSIU wins moot court 'World Cup'
The New Indian Express
The scene at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Jnana Bharathi, Bangalore, on Saturday night was reminiscent of when India won the cricket World Cup. NLSIU students were celebrating the victory of four of their own in Philip C ...
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The bar is low for Wisconsin lawyers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Lawyers who practice in Wisconsin after graduating from an out-of-state law school can often be heard grumbling that graduates of Badger state law schools get their law licenses without having to take the Bar exam. The top graduate at Harvard would ...
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Dismal results
Manila Standard Today
What is the matter with our law schools? Why did incompetent students slither through the system of checks that law schools are supposed to set in place and make it to the Bar Examinations? Is something seriously the matter with our law students?
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Manila Standard Today
Law will allow schools to seize phones
TVNZ
Schools may soon be able to seize pupils' smartphones and search through their contents for evidence of cyber bullying. Most principals are welcoming the proposed law change, but others in the sector fear it could damage the vital relationship schools ...
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Q&A: Judge Arthur Gonzalez on Chapter 11, venue and the Dodgers
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
(Reuters) - Judge Arthur Gonzalez retired as chief judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan in March 2012 and began work at the faculty at New York University School of Law. He joined the court in 1995 and oversaw some of the largest ...
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Ohio State student gives $250000 to create legal services program for veterans
Blackanthem.com
Today, Jenna Grassbaugh is in her second year of law school, with plans to spend her summer interning in the military's legal affairs offices in Afghanistan. She intends to practice in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) program upon graduating in 2014.
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Marquette Law School, Journal Sentinel host conference on future of sports ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Marquette Law School, Journal Sentinel host conference on future of sports arena in Milwaukee. Updated: 9:08 a.m.. Tweet. Email; Print. (9) Comments. Related Coverage. Bradley Center's future raises larger tax questions for Milwaukee · Publicly funded ...
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Butler school taxes expected to rise $150
NorthJersey.com
Residents will not have the opportunity to approve or vote down this year's tax levy because Butler has opted for November school board elections, rather than the traditional April elections, as permitted in a new school board election law approved in ...
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Volunteer Opportunities for IP Professionals
Patently-O
Finally, there are a number of pro-bono intellectual property clinics emerging in law schools around the country, such as the Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. Lawyers can serve as mentors to students participating in ...
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New Law Targets Padded Rooms for Autistic Kids
ABC News
Janice Brewer has signed a law providing strong new restrictions on the use of so-called "seclusion rooms" in schools – closet-sized rooms where children with behavioral disabilities such as autism were being locked up as punishment. "It is chilling to ...
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ABC News
Lawmaker: LI schools burdened with Sandy costs
Ct Post
Schumer says the extra costs are eating into schools' budgets. The senator says he'll call on the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to find ways to reimburse the school districts. By law, school districts must provide transportation to students ...
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UT regents expected to discuss whether to withhold records from Legislature
Austin American-Statesman
They also want a vote on whether to authorize Abbott to conduct an investigation of matters involving the UT School of Law and the nonprofit UT Law School Foundation, which supplements professors' salaries. Under the regents' rules, a special meeting ...
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Did the CIA's Drone Program in Pakistan Begin With a 'Bargaining Chip' Killing?
RollingStone.com
"On the facts here, Mr. Muhammad's killing would have been unlawful – even under the U.S. government's own logic and controversial legal standards," says Naureen Shah, lecturer in law at the Human Rights Institute at Colombia Law School. "He apparently ...
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RollingStone.com
$24 mln Nevada jury award could have huge impact on insurers
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
"This would absolutely be a sea change for UnitedHealth and other managed care organizations," said Tom Baker, a professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School who teaches insurance and medical malpractice. UnitedHealth said that it believes the ...
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Arkansas House panel rejects school choice bill - KATV - Breaking News ...
KATV
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas House panel has rejected a proposal to rewrite Arkansas' school choice law that a federal judge struck down as unconstitutional. Lawmakers on the House Education Committee on Thursday voted against the measure, ...
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Does the Constitution protect Amanda Knox from a murder retrial?
Philly.com
USA Today spoke with Giorgio Spangher, the head of the law school at Rome's Sapienza University, who said that technically, the Italian court annulled Knox's not guilty verdict, which was won in appeals court, and that Knox would be retried in the same ...
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Philly.com
Police use old school for 'active shooter' drills
WRCB-TV
DALTON, GA (AP) - Law enforcement trainers in northwest Georgia are using the old Eastbrook Middle School in Dalton - emptied in 2012 and replaced by the new Eastbrook Middle - to run "active shooter" simulations to train officers. Whitfield County ...
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Blogs6 new results for Law School
 
Jimmy Carter to receive award from law school with Jewish affiliation ...
By Philip Weiss
Jimmy Carter got the word apartheid into the US discourse in 2006. And for this, alumni of Cardozo Law School, have organized opposition to his receiving an award at the Jewish-affiliated school.
Mondoweiss
KU law school reports better employment for grads | CJOnline.com
By The Associated Press
LAWRENCE — After years of declining numbers, The University of Kansas Law School says its 2012 graduates had improved success in finding jobs.Law school dean Stephen Mazza says the school is pleased with data from the American ...
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Althouse: A hostile environment toward women at Harvard Law ...
By Ann Althouse
At the law school I attended, (1) final exams were blind graded, and (2) in most classes, all or most of the grade came from the final exam. If that's true at HLS, what is the precise mechanism by which the patriarchy ensures its perpetuation?
Althouse
This California Law School Has The Most ... - Business Insider
By Erin Fuchs
Not looking good for ;Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Business Insider
First among Equals: Osgoode Hall Law School Joins the Law ...
By admin
With 80.6% of the vote, Osgoode is the first law school in Ontario to join the LSSO. The LSSO, inspired in no small part by the fractured and ineffective student response to the recent articling debate, is a non-partisan issues-based advocacy ...
Obiter Dicta
Incorporating Equality into Legal Education: Experience as a 1L ...
By Guest Blogger
Nothing in the Law Society of Upper Canada's Rules of Professional Conduct places much real pressure on the profession to incorporate equality in a meaningful way. If law schools cannot insti.
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Web6 new results for Law School
 
Which law schools are tops for jobs?
The American Bar Association breaks down the types of jobs law school graduates have landed and whether they are full-time, long-term or short-term positions, ...
www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id...Which...
Dan Walters: Was UC Irvine's law school really necessary? - The ...
Six years ago, yours truly wrote a column about a proposed law school at the University of California's Irvine campus, suggesting that it was more about ...
www.sacbee.com/2013/.../dan-walters-was-uc-irvines-law.html
Exhibit talk now online: "Law Schools in Connecticut, 1782-1843 ...
In his talk, von der Linn focused on three documents relating to the early history of the New Haven Law School, which eventually became the Yale Law School.
blogs.law.yale.edu/.../exhibit-talk-now-online-quot-law-school...
Duke Law mourns the death of Andrew Katbi '13 | Duke University ...
When we have further information from Andrew's family, including their thoughts on how the Law School community might best come together to remember ...
law.duke.edu/news/duke-law-mourns-death-andrew-katbi-13/
Law School Hires 'West Memphis Three' Attorney to Lead Newly ...
The University of Virginia School of Law is significantly expanding its Appellate Litigation Clinic, which allows law students to file briefs and argue cases on ...
www.law.virginia.edu/html/.../appellate_law_litigation.htm
Reversing a Trend, U. of Arizona Law School Cuts Tuition by 11 ...
Attending law school at the University of Arizona will be slightly cheaper next year, thanks to a unanimous vote on Thursday by the Arizona Board of Regents.
https://chronicle.com/.../reversing-a-trend-u-of-arizona-law-sc...


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