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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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A look at the ABA technology conference
ABOVE THE LAW — In the dog years of technology, 33 years seems like a millennium. That is how much time has elapsed between the American Bar Association’s first TECHSHOW in 1986 and the one that convened for three days last week in Chicago.
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Experts provide advice on addressing hiring bias on college campuses
LAW.COM — The effects of implicit bias create huge potential for age, race and gender discrimination on college campuses—not only in the faculty recruiting process, but also in the recruiting process for students on campus.
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A look at efforts to reduce student debt and increase college affordability
LAW.COM — While some wealthy families, ensnared in a pay-to-play scandal revealed this week, have paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to insure their child gets enrolled in the college of their choice, thousands more students are struggling to pay for a college education.
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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