Jul 17, 2013

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Report shows law school is still a good investment
Inside Higher Ed
Once considered a worthwhile investment, law schools are now under intense attack from critics, alumni and even law professors -- many of whom say students are better off not going at all than to be left underemployed, disillusioned and with crushing ...
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Law school will rename its atrium after benefactor pleads guilty to wire fraud
ABA Journal
Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law is planning to remove the name of benefactor William Conour from its atrium after the lawyer pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud on Monday. Conour was accused of diverting $4.5 million in client ...
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ABA May Ditch Law School Student-to-Faculty Ratio Rule
The National Law Journal
The American Bar Association's rules governing the size of law school faculties may soon be a thing of the past. The ABA committee reviewing the organization's accreditation standards has voted to do away with the rule establishing a minimum ...
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Law school at Grenfell Campus would pose more challenges: Faour
Western Star
CORNER BROOK The prospect of a Memorial University law school being established in Corner Brook appears to have not even earned much consideration until Tuesday night. The province's university is undergoing a feasibility process to determine ...
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Man Joins Army To Pay Off Law School Loans
Above the Law
Any time the punishment for going to your law school involves a graduate essentially "taking the black" and joining the U.S. Army to escape his crushing debt burdens, you have to be really proud of the value offered by your institution. The quote from ...
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Dean of TRU Law School resigns without explanation
Kamloops Daily News
Chris Axworthy, founding dean of the TRU Law School, resigned on Monday. Citing a personnel issue related to Axworthy's departure, university administration would not comment on his resignation. Anne Pappas has been appointed interim dean of law as ...
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Law Professors Enter A Time Of Consequences As ABA Fights To Preserve ...
Above the Law
Law schools across the country are shedding faculty members as enrollment plunges, sending a grim message to an elite group long sheltered from the ups and downs of the broader economy. Having trimmed staff, some schools are offering buyouts and ...
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UB law expert on black masculinities and critical race legal theory comments ...
UB News Center
Athena D. Mutua, the Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at the UB Law School, said prosecutors did "a poor job" in allowing the case to be primarily about Trayvon Martin and said the judge made a mistake, "in typical colorblind pretense, in ...
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What's the value of a law degree? $1M in a lifetime, report says
ABA Journal
Kyle McEntee, who co-founded Law School Transparency, told Inside Higher Ed that the professors have missed the point. "Law schools have made a habit out of capturing as much value out of their students as possible—and for a long time, used deceptive ...
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ADVISORY/ UC Irvine School of Law to Host US Supreme Court Term in Review ...
Wall Street Journal
UC Irvine School of Law will host an all-star panel of journalists and academics to review the U.S. Supreme Court's key cases decided in the October 2012 term. WHEN: The event will be held on July 19, noon to 1:30 pm. WHERE: UC Irvine Student Center, ...
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Why Legal Needs to Ease Out of Legalese
Corporate Counsel
Or so would argue Joseph Kimble, an author and legal writing professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. In his recent blog post, "You Think Anybody Likes Legalese?", Kimble tackles the myth that legalese is superior to conventional ...
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Richard W. Glass
Republican Journal
While reminiscing, Richard often reflected that as a young boy he "always wanted to go to law school." That dream was fulfilled when he entered Boston University Law School on the G.I. Bill following his service in the Army. While still a law student ...
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Christian Legal Group Combats ACLU Attempt to End Bible Distribution in ...
Christian News Network
800px-Crop_Book_of_Isaiah_2006-06-06 FRANKFORT – A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has sent a letter to school districts throughout the state of Kentucky in an effort to combat an attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ...
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Parks joins pre-law program
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Participants learn about the law school admissions process and the law school admissions test, participate in workshops and seminars, and visit area courts, law firms and corporate legal departments. Parks will be a junior in the fall at the University ...
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Gov. Perry Signs 1st RGV Medical School Into Law
Fox 2 KFXV
That's right it's a historic day for the Rio Grande Valley. Governor Rick Perry was here visiting and this morning at UTPA he signed into law, the legislation that will create the first medical school in the valley. With maximum security Texas governor ...
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Health Week to help students build resilience
Lawyers Weekly
A law school is taking a proactive stance for its students' mental and physical health by holding a Health Awareness Week next month. "With all the research that has been going on about the law having a high rate of mental illness, there's a bit more ...
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TRU's dean of law resigns
Kamloops This Week
Chris Axworthy, the founding dean of TRU's Law School resigned on Monday, July 15 — though the reason behind the decision is not being made public by the university. Axworthy was hired in 2010 to guide the nation's newest law school into its first year.
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School safety bills passed into law
WLNE-TV (ABC6)
The laws will more strictly regulate fire drills, requiring schools to hold one fire drill and one lock down drill at the start of the school year. A fire drill will also be held every month after, except in January where there will be a lock down ...
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New Missouri Law Encourages Schools To Teach First-Graders About Gun Safety
Huffington Post
Jay Nixon signed into law a bill that includes a provision encouraging Missouri schools to teach a National Rifle Association-sponsored, gun-safety class to some of the state's littlest learners. The legislation, which was first proposed a day before ...
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Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch Named to Fastcase 50
Internet For Lawyers
The peer-nominated award recognizes "50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law." Industry leaders, law firm managers, legal technology influencers, law school professors, and entrepreneurs around the ...
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Will new school leaving age law reduce number of Neets?
BBC News
Sixteen-year-olds in England will not be allowed to leave school to find work for the first time, under a new law. The regulation means that they will have to stay in education or training for at least one more year. The move is part of the government ...
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Missouri Law Lets Schools Teach Gun Safety To First Graders
The Inquisitr
A Missouri law will let schools teach gun safety first graders alongside math, science, and social studies. The measure is sponsored by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and was signed into law by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Despite the support the ...
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ABA committee forwards tenure requirement options to council
Inside Higher Ed
The American Bar Association is closer to deciding whether it will continue to require that accredited law schools offer tenure-like conditions for full-time teaching faculty, and there isn't as much support now as there has been in the past for ending ...
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States Get Things Done, Affecting National Policy
New York Times
States Get Things Done, Affecting National Policy. Heather K. Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright professor of law at Yale Law School. July 16, 2013. When people debate whether state politics or national politics are more important, they typically fall into ...
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Open meetings complaint alleges Appleton Area School District broke open ...
Fox11online.com
"We're looking to get a clear ruling from a court that these kinds of committees, created by the school board to review textbooks and other educational material, are subject to the open meetings law," said Kamenick. WILL says the complaint is in the ...
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Dallas Trial Attorney Jody Rudman Joins Kendall Law Group
Sacramento Bee
Ms. Rudman has worked at private law firms in Dallas and Chicago, representing clients in health care, business, commercial and ERISA litigation. She is a graduate of The Law School at The University of Chicago. She earned her undergraduate degree in ...
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Regents Chairman Defends Embattled Colleague
The Alcalde
Hall has been under fire for multiple document requests of UT-Austin and a continuing investigation into the relationship between the UT School of Law and the independent Law School Foundation. On the day of the meeting, regents chair Gene Powell sent ...
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J. Rich Leonard Assumes Deanship at Campbell Law
PR.com (press release)
Raleigh, NC, July 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Campbell Law School (http://law.campbell.edu) has announced that J. Rich Leonard, former United States Bankruptcy Court Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, assumed the role of dean of Campbell ...
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Blogs6 new results for Law School
 
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: "The Economic Value of a Law ...
By Brian Leiter
This article ought to fundamentally change the conversation about the economic value of legal education; it's considerably more sophisticated methodologically than anything I've seen, and...
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Law schools are turning out too many social ... - Legal Insurrection
By William A. Jacobson
Claims that federal hate crimes charges should be brought gains George Zimmerman substitute politics for legal analysis.
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ABA Recommends Protections for Law School Faculty - JD Journal ...
By Jaan
As the legal industry sheds jobs and as sluggish growth in the sector continues as a trend, law schools are feeling the squeeze. As.
JD Journal
Supervising Attorney Ashley Ham Pong Featured in Law School ...
By CAIR Coalition Staff
Ashley Ham Pong, the supervising attorney for CAIR Coalition's Detained Children's program, is featured in an article on mentoring that appears in the summer edition of the magazine of Roger Williams University School of Law.
CAIR Coalition
At University of Louisville, Life Imitates Life | The Law School Tuition ...
By Matt Leichter
Brandon Lane Hamilton has been charged with unlawfully accessing a computer. … He is accused of going into the computer system and raising scholarship offers. … The law school is honoring the scholarship offers, which were about $2.4 ...
The Law School Tuition Bubble
Governor Signs Slew of Bills into Law | WPRI.com
By By Shaun Towne
Several pieces of legislation that Eyewitness News and WPRI.com have covered in the past -- including school safety bills and the Kelsey Smith Act -- were among several bills that received Chafee's signature and made law on Tuesday.
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Web11 new results for Law School
 
Aristide university in Haiti to create law school - Miami Herald
The university founded by former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is opening a law school program in the Caribbean nation, one of the faculty members ...
www.miamiherald.com/.../aristide-university-in-haiti-to.html
Pro Bono Service Initiative | University of Chicago Law School
You can find public service opportunities at nonprofit organizations, government agencies, legal services offices, law school clinics, and even firms with pro bono  ...
www.law.uchicago.edu/probono
Is Hamline Law School on its last legs? - Lawyers, Guns & Money ...
The Wall Street Journal has a story today about law schools shrinking faculties via attrition, buyouts, and layoffs, in the face of the continuing slide in applicants ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/.../is-hamline-law-school-o...
USD Welcomes Gov't and Military Officials, Unveils Law School's ...
USD Welcomes Gov't and Military Officials, Unveils Law School's Veterans Initiative. Message. Robert Muth, US Rep. Susan Davis, USD Law School Dean ...
www.sandiego.edu/about/news_center/.../news_detail.php?_...
Aristide university in Haiti to create law school - SFGate
Aristide, a priest-turned-two-time president, spent seven years in exile in South Africa and came back to Haiti in March 2011. Since his return, Aristide has spent  ...
www.sfgate.com/.../Aristide-university-in-Haiti-to-create-law-s...
Postdoc in Law and Finance at Columbia Law School | Program on ...
Columbia Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation has a vacancy for a postdoc position. The postdoc will participate in the Center's activities ...
studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/.../postdoc-law-and-finance-col...
Zimmerman wants to go to law school
(REUTERS) — After his acquittal on murder charges for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman may go to law school to help people wrongly ...
www.wnd.com/.../zimmerman-wants-to-go-to-law-school/?cat...
LLM GUIDE - Edinburgh Law School to Offer New Online Route to ...
The Edinburgh Law School will begin offering four online credit courses that form a pathway to an LL.M. The courses will cover the following focus areas:.
www.llm-guide.com/.../edinburgh-law-school-to-offer-online-...
Howard University School of Law's Response to State of Florida v ...
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2013) – Okianer Christian Dark, professor of law and interim dean of Howard University School of Law, issued a written statement in ...
www.howard.edu/.../20130716Howard%20UniversitySchoolo...
ALBANY : Law school set to downsize as applications fall Graduates ...
Faced with fewer employment opportunities for lawyers and a decline in applications, Albany Law School is getting smaller. The school will admit fewer students ...
www.dailygazette.net/.../ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path...
Law School Commencement - Baylor University
Date, August 3, 2013, Time, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Location. Description, Baylor Law School Commencement. Publisher, Waco Hall. vCal, Download this event ...
www.baylor.edu/calendar/?event_id=84017&_buref...


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