ABA employees are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
ABA JOURNAL — All full-time employees of the ABA are now eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program following a settlement in the association’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. As a result of that determination, full-time employees with outstanding direct federal loans are eligible for participation, as long as they meet other program…
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ABA JOURNAL — The ABA’s Young Lawyers Division announced in a Twitter post Sunday that the ABA and SoFi, an online personal finance company, are accepting applications for their new Student Loan Relief Scholarship Contest. Entrants must answer the question, “How would an ABA/SoFi Student Loan Relief Scholarship impact your world?” in 500 words or less…
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — With the recent retirement of Dean John F. O’Brien from New England Law, Baylor Law’s Dean Brad Toben is now the longest serving dean among the deans of the 203 ABA accredited law schools in the nation, with more than 28 years of service in his role. Dean Toben’s tenure, which began in 1991,…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In honor of this momentous occasion, the American Bar Association (ABA) has planned a travelling exhibit detailing the decades of work that generations of dedicated women put into securing the right to vote for women. From 10 to 28 of February 2020, the ABA exhibit will be hosted by Penn Law’s Biddle…
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ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — The finals of the 2020 ABA Negotiation Competition featured a long-anticipated battle for regional supremacy: Northwestern versus Southwestern. In the end, the Southwestern Law School team of Vanessa Barnett and Tamar Chobanian emerged as the champions for 2020, besting the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law duo of Emilie Alexandra McConnachie and Conner Collins…
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS –The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress has sponsored an award-winning traveling exhibit to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment. The six-banner free-standing display features historic photos and artifacts, details the story of the battle for ratification and outlines remaining challenges.
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ABA — A simpler, more cost-effective, and more attainable solution is the program the Committee developed: Wills for the Underserved. The Committee used ideas from three professors who had created will drafting programs at their law schools. The University of Oregon School of Law has been operating the program as a prototype and has developed a…
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation recently named second year law student Amando Dominick and third-year law student Vitória Medieros, both of Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, as 2019 James W. Stoudt Memorial Scholarship Fund award winners. Each recipient received $3,000. The scholarship was named to memorialize a steadfast supporter…
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TULANE HULLABALOO — Judy Perry Martinez, American Bar Association president and Tulane University Law School graduate, spoke to a “Lawyers as Leaders” class at her alma mater Friday about what it means to be a leader in the legal profession.
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL NEWS — This fall, NYLS was a quarterfinalist in two major moot court competitions, with support through a new MCA Senior Fellow Program. The program, developed by new Moot Court Faculty Advisor Ann Schofield Baker ’97, pairs individual teams with a highly experienced attorney coach to help them prepare for competition.
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