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Clinic Trains Nebraska Law Students to Advocate for State’s Children
The new clinic will provide eight 3L students with the opportunity to serve as a guardian ad litem for children in the child welfare system.
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Law Schools and Technology: Where We Are and Where We Are Heading
Michele Pistone, Villanova Law, analyzes the conditions and trends that encourage greater use of learning technologies in legal education.
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Survey: Prospective law students split on GRE as law school admissions test
KAPLAN TEST PREP — As momentum builds among law schools to allow applicants to submit GRE scores instead of LSAT scores, those most directly impacted by the admissions policy are largely split on the issue.
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law aims to address rural lawyer shortage
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK — The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law will launch the state’s first law firm incubator program. The Rural Practice Incubator is designed to help with the attorney need in these counties by supporting new attorneys to set up innovative business practices in underserved rural communities.
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ABA President Hilarie Bass stresses the importance of technology in legal practice at Stanford Law tech conference
ABA JOURNAL — With technologists, entrepreneurs and lawyers gathered, the Stanford Law School CodeX FutureLaw conference attempted to break down silos yesterday. But, with a primarily legal audience, that is no small feat, according to ABA president Hilarie Bass.
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Upcoming Symposia at Member Schools
- Artificial Intelligence & the Law - Seton Hall University School of Law - April 19-20, 2018
- Younger Comparativists Committee Conference - Case Western Reserve University School of Law - April 20-21, 2018
- 21st Annual UNC Tax Symposium - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - April 20-21, 2018
- Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference - Georgia State University College of Law - April 21, 2018
- Digital Information Policy Scholars’ Conference - George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School - April 27, 2018
- Our Aging Brains: Decision-making, Fraud, and Undue Influence - Harvard Law School - April 27, 2018
- Inequality and the Future of Family Law - University of Minnesota Law School - April 27-28, 2018
- Law Teaching for Adjunct and New Professors - Texas A&M University School of Law - April 28, 2018
- bioip Faculty Workshop - Georgia State University College of Law - May 3-4, 2018
- American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting - Boston University School of Law - May 11-12, 2018