Southwestern Law receives LSAC Diversity Matters Award
SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL – Southwestern took First Place in the Law School Admission Council’s 2017 Diversity Matters Award.
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BLOOMBERG LAW – More and more women are being hired for the top lawyer jobs in Fortune 500 companies, and more of them are being hired via external searches instead of promoted from within, a new study has found.
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GLOBENEWSWIRE – Although women now comprise 50.9% of J.D. students, enrollment data shows a great disparity among law schools.
Read More about Infographic: Where women go to law schoolDrake Law launches scholarship program with three HBCUs
ABA JOURNAL – In an effort to increase diversity, graduates of three Historically Black Colleges and Universities will receive scholarships covering at least half of tuition upon admission to Drake University Law School.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS – Marsh and seven of her female colleagues are now cited as examples of violation of the Equal Pay Act in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit against the university.
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WINDY CITY TIMES – The American Bar Association is launching a first-of-its kind nationwide study to identify the biases encountered by LGBT+ and/or disabled lawyers in the legal profession.
Read More about ABA launches study to expand opportunities, reduces biases against disabled lawyers and LGBT lawyersIndustry pioneers give advice to young women lawyers
BLOOMBERG LAW – Here are a few things young women lawyers can keep in mind as they work their way through and upward in the legal profession.
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – The Muslim Law Students Association continues to serve as an important resource for Muslim students at the Law School.
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STETSON UNIVERSITY – First-year law student Matthew Ceriale has been awarded the inaugural Shumaker Diversity Scholarship from the Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP law firm.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED – College completion rates vary widely along racial and ethnic lines, with black and Hispanic students earning credentials at a much lower rate than white and Asian students do, according to a report released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
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