May 2, 2013

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UW, Marquette law schools miss cut in new Top 50 ranking
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
A widely-read legal profession blog and leading critic of the legal education status quo on Wednesday launched its law school ranking, one it argues will be much more relevant to prospective students (of which the blog feels there are still way too many).
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Everything That Is Wrong With The Above the Law Law School Rankings
Above the Law
Yesterday, we released the inaugural ATL Top 50 Law School rankings. A lot of us here worked really hard on it. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of the effort. But I haven't made my career based on liking things. I hate things. If anybody else ...
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Penn Law School, FactCheck.org win Webby Awards
The Daily Pennsylvanian
... to compete for Webby Awards. 5/27/10: Factcheck.org wins two Webby Awards · Flickr/Creative Commons | DP. Both Penn Law School's website and the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org won the "Internet's highest honor" on Tuesday.
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Law Professor Hurls Hypocrisy Charge at Colleagues
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Brian Tamanaha, a professor of jurisprudence at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, has stood out as among the more withering critics of legal education. Last year, with his book "Failing Law Schools," he blamed law schools for sticking ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
A Radical New Law School Ranking Comes Up With Predictable Results
Business Insider
That's because law firms, Supreme Court justices, and other top employers like to hire people who've graduated from prestigious law schools like the ones that make the U.S. News list. ATL's ranking not only analyzes graduates' job prospects, but it ...
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Business Insider
"For the Law School Graduate in Your Life: Gift Certificate to Have Your Eggs ...
First Things (blog)
I've been travelling a lot recently and in Anchorage (American Bar Association Family Law Section Meeting) I was on a panel with a doctor who does fertility work in southern California. He mentioned that it was now possible to give a gift certificate ...
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AboveTheLaw.com Rolls Out Its Own Law School Ranking
mediabistro.com
"Due to imperfections in the existing law school ranking systems, we decided to take a shot at ranking the law schools," the site wrote in an email to FishbowlNY. "Here's our inaugural set of rankings, reflecting our general philosophy of ranking based ...
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Penn Law Nabs A Webby for Cutting-Edge Website - Law.com
The National Law Journal
Law schools generally aren't known for hosting cutting-edge websites. In fact, one 2011 survey of law school sites found that they tended to favor bland photos of happy students lounging beneath trees, Supreme Court justices or moot court competitions.
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The National Law Journal
Texas Tech Law, Estacado High School celebrate extension of magnet partnership
LubbockOnline.com
Not many high school students get to learn handcuffing techniques and how to make felony traffic stops, but it's something Lucio Trevino has been teaching at Estacado High School for about eight years. His criminal justice classes for freshman through ...
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Dickinson Law Association appeals to Penn State trustees for delay on split of ...
Patriot-News
Leaders of the Dickinson Law Association have asked Penn State trustees to hit the pause button on a proposal to turn the university's current unified law school into two separate entities. Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle campus View full ...
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Law Student Arrested for Anti-Semitic and Violent Threats Against Professors
JDJournal.com
If you are failing a class in law school, this doesn't mean that you should threaten your professors with racially charged and violent letters and photographs. One student at the University of Connecticut School of Law apparently did not know these ...
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BPP to offer free qualifications to its LPC grads without law jobs
Legal Week
BPP Law School is to take the unusual step of offering a free qualification worth up to £16,500 to any of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduates failing to secure a job in the legal sector within six months of graduating. The offer - which will ...
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Legal Week
Law class includes six from Madison County
Norfolk Daily News
For Fitzgerald, law is all in the family, so to speak. Her father, Mark, is a Norfolk lawyer, and both of her grandfathers — John Fitzgerald and Jack Gatz — also practiced law. The grads from Madison County have spent some time together in law school ...
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J'Accuse: Law prof says hypocrite liberals stayed silent on high tuition while ...
ABA Journal
Law school scholarship policies … in effect channel students with financial means to higher ranked law schools, reaping better opportunities, while sending students without money to lower law schools [where they qualify for better aid packages]. A ...
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NUJS teacher allegedly slaps student late for exam; Law school to inquire
Legally India
NUJS to inquire into alleged slappingAn NUJS Kolkata student was allegedly physically assaulted on Tuesday by a faculty member at the law school after the student argued for permission to write an exam despite arriving late to the exam hall. According ...
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The Devaluation of the Time-Honored Law Degree
Highbrow Magazine
As the New York Times noted in a January 30, 2013 article, "Law school applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upon graduation.
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Highbrow Magazine
UConn Law Student Accused of Anti-Semitic Comments, Harassment
NBC Connecticut
Police also reviewed Bargh's social media accounts and said she had posted some disparaging remarks to professors on the law school campus in one Flickr account, as well as violent posts on social media. Police spoke with the professors, who NBC ...
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NBC Connecticut
McCrory to give Campbell Law commencement address
Triangle Business Journal
McCrory will be delivering the commencement address to our graduates," said Campbell Law Interim Dean Keith Faulkner in a released statement. "As our students successfully leave law school and begin a new chapter of their professional lives by ...
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Waller Expands; Nashville's Largest Law Firm Adds 17 New Attorneys
IT Business Net
"It is exciting to see that we are not only attracting attorneys from the best law schools in the Southeast, but also from iconic institutions like Harvard and Stanford. We look forward to their contributions and leadership as we continue to expand our ...
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Lynchburg Attorney Honored by Washington and Lee School of Law
Washington and Lee University News Office
Attorney Robin Wood, principal at Edmunds & Williams in Lynchburg, was honored recently during the annual Order of the Coif ceremony at Washington and Lee School of Law. Wood, who has taught Virginia Law and Procedure at W&L Law since 1980 as ...
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Washington and Lee University News Office
Judge Orders UConn Law Student To Stay Off Campus After Harassment Arrest
CBS Local
A judge today ordered a UConn law school student to stay off campus, and have NO contact with members of the faculty. Members of the Student Bar Association told police they felt targeted or upset when they got anti-Semitic emails, one of which also ...
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Timothy R. Streett, criminal defense attorney
Baltimore Sun
Mr. Streett earned a law degree from the Shepard Broad Law Center, which is the law school of Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Fla. A solo practitioner, Mr. Streett worked from a Main Street office in Bel Air as a criminal defense attorney for ...
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Baltimore Sun
Out Law honors local 'trailblazers'
Washington Blade
The University of Baltimore Law School's only LGBT group, Out Law, presented its annual COBALT awards on April 25 at the Club Hippo before approximately 50 in attendance. COBALT stands for Celebration of Our Baltimore Area LGBT Trailblazers.
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Washington Blade
Mayoral Debate Provides Great Political Theater
Jackson Free Press
A standing-room only crowd of Jacksonians came early and went home happy at Tuesday night's much-anticipated mayoral debate at Mississippi College School of Law's Student Assembly Center. The debate took place exactly one week before voters go to ...
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Students hear from Warren at Plymouth court's Law Day
The Patriot Ledger
Warren and the other two keynote speakers, state Senate President Therese Murray and Plymouth District Court Judge Rosemary Minehan, talked to the student about the importance of law in our society. Looking out into the crowd of middle and high school ...
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School Board selects attorney, votes on budget request
Lincoln Times-News
Following post-interview discussions during which School Board members Cathy Davis and Ed Hatley raised some concerns over the law firm's suggested level of reimbursement for time spent traveling, Burgin and Hoyle were able to negotiate the cost down ...
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Law Day teaches students equality
Selma Times-Journal
From left, vice principal of Selma High School Woodie Jackson, District Judge Bob Armstrong, District Attorney Michael Jackson, Jana Garner, Judge Marvin Wiggins, Woody Jones and Judge Collins Pettaway Jr. presented information on Law Day to Selma ...
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Lawyer-Novelist Mixes Suspense With Romance in Her Thrillers - Law.com
The National Law Journal
I've always written, and during my third year in law school I figured this was the last time I'd have this much free time -- which is not the way you should think about the third year in law school. But I wanted to write a spy novel, and I started ...
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The National Law Journal
Advocating for the rule of law in Belarus - Harvard Law School - Harvard ...
Harvard Law School News
Like others in Harvard Law School's LL.M. class of 2013, Maryna Kavaleuskaya practiced law abroad before coming to America for additional legal training. And, like many of her 187 classmates—most of them from overseas—she had to overcome obstacles ...
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Harvard Law School News
Judges extol legal virtues on Law Day
Worcester Telegram
During a break in the proceedings, the judges held a question-and-answer session with the North High students and urged them to consider going to law school and becoming lawyers if they were so inclined. "If you think that it's something you want to do ...
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Kelly Newsome, Corporate Attorney, Quits Law Profession To Teach Yoga (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
"I'm glad I went to law school," she told HuffPost Live host Mike Sacks. Ultimately, however, she didn't feel passionate about her work. "It wasn't something that got me jazzed every day [...] it kind of wasn't enough." Newsome added that her past as a ...
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Lecturer says labor law divide is sign of broader conflict
Cornell Chronicle
That's a question Wilma Liebman, former NLRB chair, addressed in her Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture, "Over the Cliff: What's Next for American Labor Law?," April 29 at the ILR School. At the heart of the issue, she says, is that the country is very ...
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Cornell Chronicle
R. Jordan Riley Joins Vernier & Associates, PLLC
The Paper Magazine
Riley completed his undergraduate career at the University of Texas at Austin, and obtained his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law in Fort Worth. While attending law school, Riley worked for Vernier & Associates, as a ...
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The Paper Magazine
Judge Carla Moore urges black law students to keep high moral standards
Akron Legal News
"Law school and the legal profession are competitive. But I always tell law students you don't check your moral compass at the door when you enter law school. Neither do you trade it in when you receive your license to practice law. There are some ...
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Vernon L. Putnam — 1947-2013
Topanga Messenger
Following his graduation, he attended U.C.L.A. Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1972. While still in law school, Vern started his legal career as a clerk with the Los Angeles Public Defender's Office where he later became a trial attorney. In ...
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Article addresses constitutional issues with private government contractors
Phys.Org
In addition to this real-world engagement as a lawyer and as a scholar, Lumen N. Mulligan, professor of law and director of the Shook, Hardy and Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy, brings this high-level, hands-on experience to the KU Law School ...
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[Focus on the Advertiser] Agemian & Fang, Attorneys at Law
Los Feliz Ledger
Agemian met Yuen Fang, while attending Loyola Law School, in Los Angeles, before establishing Agemian & Fang Attorneys at Law in 1989. Together, they specialize in all aspects of civil litigation, appellate and transactional matters, with an emphasis ...
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Los Feliz Ledger
Maroney: Immigrant farm workers – driver's licenses or not – are part of a ...
vtdigger.org
Editor's note: This op-ed is by James H. Maroney Jr., who has a master's degree in Environmental Law & Policy from Vermont Law School and is a former farmer. In his editorial "Granting Farm Workers Drivers' Licenses is the Right Thing to Do" (Addison ...
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Speaking the language of law as Rosetta Stone's GC - InsideCounsel
InsideCounsel
Wu's first years after law school were typical. He started out at Baker Botts in Houston, but due to the lack of social life the Bayou City had to offer him, he packed his bags and headed to Washington, D.C., practicing law with Bingham McCutchen ...
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InsideCounsel
The She-Pope of Carnegie Mellon
American Thinker
In the run-up to the 2012 election, the Georgetown Law School grad Fluke brought honor to the Democratic Party by exposing an archaic patriarchal religious institution and highlighting the need for unlimited free birth control for every college girl in ...
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Blogs1 new result for Law School
 
Althouse: Above the Law produces a "Top 50 Law School Rankings."
By Ann Althouse
"Back when I was in law school, turning away from big law firms was what the best people did." Evidently ... old big ten. My understanding is that MSU occupies Chicago's spot in the conference so no loss there (from a law school standpoint).
Althouse

Web4 new results for Law School
 
The ATL Top 50 Law School Rankings 2013 « Above the Law: A ...
Most people attend law school to obtain jobs as lawyers. (Not butchers or bakers, or candlestick makers.) If law school was just a cool place to chill out for a few ...
abovethelaw.com/careers/law-school-rankings/
Law school dean regrets 'censorship' of Chief Justice Roberts visit ...
It was quite a coup for Lewis & Clark Law School to land Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to preside over its moot court competition earlier this month. But the ...
articles.washingtonpost.com/.../38717665_1_justice-sonia-soto...
D-Day for law school deans - ABA Journal
By now, it's old news that law is in a pickle. But if you look at that dust cloud on the horizon, you'll see the Deans' Cavalry riding to the rescue. For some time ...
www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/.../d-day_for_law_school_de...
The Legal Whiteboard: Is Law School Reform Going to Come Top ...
Any law school or law professor who wants a better way can have one -- we ... Before I went to law school at age 35, I was a firefighter-paramedic for nine years.
lawprofessors.typepad.com/.../is-law-school-reform-going-to-c...


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