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Incubator Program Prepares Law Graduates for Successful Solo Practice
The Law Entrepreneurs for Access Program (LEAP) at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is a year-long incubator program that provides advanced legal and business training to JD students who want to run successful solo practices.
Current Issues in Legal Education
The Demand for Legal Education: The Long View
Deborah M. Hussey Freeland, Research Fellow at the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, examines available data on the total number of law school applicants, including long-term economic and demographic trends in the demand for legal education.
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ABA council to take up stronger bar pass standard for law schools again in May 2019
AZ CENTRAL — The American Bar Association Council is set to take up a proposal in May that would require law schools to have 75 percent of their graduates who take the bar exam pass it within two years.
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More law schools look to expand online offerings
EDUCATION DIVE — As enrollment wavers, law schools look to expand online. Virtual classes and programs are tapping new revenue streams and preparing faculty for the future of legal education.
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Law school librarians share variety of affordable ways to teach legal tech
ABA JOURNAL — Deborah Ginsberg doesn’t teach a specific legal technology class at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Instead, the educational technology law librarian goes to various classes and provides students with information relevant to legal practice areas taught in the course.
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Upcoming Symposia at Member Schools
- The Singapore Convention: Compliance with Cross-Border Mediated Settlement - Cardozo Law School - March 18, 2019
- Digital Media and Video Game Conference - UC Hastings College of Law - March 18, 2019
- Free Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors of Violence - Brooklyn Law School - March 19, 2019
- Ten Years From the Bottom: A Reflection on the Financial Crisis and its Lasting Impact - Duke Law School - March 20, 2019
- 7th Annual E-Discovery Conference - University of Florida Levin College of Law - March 21, 2019
- Wallace Stegner Center 24th Annual Symposium – Recreation Challenges on Public Lands - University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law - March 21 – 22, 2019
- Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference - American University Washington College of Law - March 21 – 24, 2019
- 2019 State and Local Government Conference - Brigham Young University Law School - March 22, 2019
- Environmental Resilience: The Legal and Policy Landscape - Indiana University McKinney School of Law - March 22, 2019
- 43rd Annual Canada-United States Law Institute Conference - Case Western Reserve University School of Law - March 22, 2019