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Tips for first-year law firm associates
ABA JOURNAL — Concerns about starting your first job after law school are justified. It is terrifying. For many, the first year as an associate will be your first professional job. Little has prepared you for the difficult, confusing and stressful first year ahead. Many summer associate positions fail to provide a realistic picture.
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Law students protest Gibson Dunn & Crutcher law firm for work on Dakota Access Pipeline
BLOOMBERG LAW — Gibson Dunn & Crutcher should set an ethical standard for representing fossil fuel companies, a student law group said Wednesday, citing the firm’s work on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The firm’s work has caused “immense harm to the climate and marginalized communities, particularly indigenous communities.”
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Several states consider lower bar exam pass scores
ABA JOURNAL — Rhode Island has followed California’s lead in lowering the bar exam cut score to make the test easier to pass. The Rhode Island Supreme Court lowered the score needed to pass the bar exam from 276 to 270 and made the change retroactive to the February 2021 exam.
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Upcoming Symposia at Law Schools
- The 30th Annual Law Review Virtual Symposium: The Future of Space Regulation — DePaul University College of Law — April 10, 2021
- Law Review Symposium: Pandemic Practices: COVID-19 and Its Impact on the Law — Widener University Commonwealth Law School — April 9, 16, and 23, 2021
- “Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System” — University of Minnesota Law School — April 12, 2021
- Building an Anti-Racist Curriculum Symposium — Rutgers Law School — April 12, 14 and 16, 2021
- International Law & COVID-19 Symposium — University of Miami School of Law — April 12 and 16, 2021
- 42nd annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture — Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology — April 13, 2021
- 2021 Herzog Memorial Lecture Towards Symbiosis: The Interconnections between Law and Well-being in a Time of Crisis — University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School — April 13, 2021
- USC Gould Center for Dispute Resolution & JAMS’ Fifth Annual Symposium: Bridging the Common and Civil Law Chasm (FREE Webinar 2 of 3 — “You’ve Got to Have (Good) Faith — Or Do You?” The Arbitrator’s Approach to Contract Interpretation Issues) — University of Southern California Gould School of Law — April 14, 2021
- #MiamiTech Movement and the Law Conference — University of Miami School of Law — April 14, 2021
- 18th Annual Dominick L. DiCarlo U.S. Court of International Trade Lecture A Conversation with Hon. Mark A. Barnett — University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School — April 15, 2021