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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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Experts offer tips for organizing successful online law school courses
ABA JOURNAL — The skills for teaching online law school courses are not unlike those needed for the practice of law. Both require concise writing, well-organized outlines and the ability to speak without appearing that you’re reading from a script.
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Inspired by Before the JD, Georgetown Law visits underserved high schools to encourage students to consider law school
LAW.COM — Andy Cornblatt, the dean of admissions at Georgetown University Law Center, was speaking on a panel for college pre-law advisers last spring when another presenter’s statistic caught his eye. More than half of law students started thinking about pursuing a legal career back in high school or earlier.
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Law school deans and professors discuss why they selected the law schools they attended
NATIONAL JURIST — Today, prospective law school students have all sorts of methods to help them decide which law school would fit them best. They can reach out to pre-law advisers, alumni, current students or a bevy of social media sites. But how did some of today’s leading legal educators decide?
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Upcoming Symposia at Member Schools
- Fifth Annual Media and Entertainment Law Symposium - Fordham University School of Law - February 11, 2019
- Free Speech and the University: The State of Campus Debate - Seton Hall Law School - February 12, 2019
- Intellectual Property in a Globalized Economy: United States Extraterritoriality in International Business - Boston University School of Law - February 15, 2019
- Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Reprogramming of Law - Fordham University School of Law - February 15, 2019
- 13th Annual Planning, Law, and Property Rights Conference - Texas A&M University - February 18-22, 2019
- Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law: Regulating the Unregulatable - Vanderbilt University Law School - February 20, 2019
- Twenty-five Years After Argentina’s AMIA Bombing: Justice vs. Impunity - Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles - February 21, 2019
- Consumer Law Scholars Conference - UC Berkeley School of Law - February 21-22, 2019
- Emerging Trends in Corporate Enforcement and Corporate Compliance - Brooklyn Law School - February 22, 2019
- Wake Forest Law Review: Cognitive Emotion and Law - Wake Forest University School of Law - February 22, 2019