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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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AALS researchers detail Before the JD findings in National Conference of Bar Examiners article
THE BAR EXAMINER — In the years immediately following the Great Recession, American law schools found themselves suffering from significant reductions in the number of applicants, experiencing a 38% decline between 2010 and 2015 alone. In the face of these circumstances, legal education leaders were posing questions
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U.S. News explores scholarly impact ranking of law schools
LAW.COM — U.S. News & World Report plans to launch a new law school ranking—one that will sort schools according to the “scholarly impact” of their faculties. The new ranking, announced Wednesday, will be separate from the closely watched “Best Law Schools” ranking, at least initially.
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Atlanta law firm parners with Legal Analytics Lab at Georgia State University
LAW.COM — Alston & Bird is headed back to school. The Atlanta-based firm is partnering with the Legal Analytics Lab at Georgia State University to receive some hands-on tutoring in data analytics and related tools such as machine learning and text mining.
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Upcoming Symposia at Member Schools
- 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
- The Role of Courts in Politically and Socially Charged Moments - William & Mary Law School - February 22, 2019
- 2019 Health Law Conference - University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law - February 22, 2019
- Trauma, Policing and the 13th Amendment: The Long Arc to Freedom - UC Irvine School of Law - February 22, 2019
- Politics, Conflict & Leadership: Dispute Resolution Panel & Networking - USC Gould School of Law - February 23, 2019