Charlotte School of Law hosts Caribbean Law Clinic
RADIO CAYMAN – During the period November 11-15 2015, Charlotte School of Law hosted the latest meeting of the Caribbean Law Clinic attended by eight Caribbean and US law schools.
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DAILYEGYPTIAN.COM – The School of Law is fighting to retain its core mission as budget cuts are made throughout the university.
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LIVELAW.IN – “There are a number of key issues facing Indian lawyers and in many cases there is no right answer or a perfect solution. This article is an attempt to generate a debate around some of the most important issues, in the hope that it will bring change.”
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ALL AFRICA – A Kenyan court has directed the Kenya’s Council of Legal Education (CLE) to register students the latter had barred from sitting the Kenya School of Law bar examinations.
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INDEPENDENT – According to The Law Society, almost 5 per cent of the solicitors admitted to the roll in 2014 were over 40, and another 1.9 per cent were over 50.
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THE JAPAN TIMES – Inspired by the U.S.-based Innocence Project, researchers in Japan aim to launch a support network next spring for people believed to have been wrongly convicted.
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TULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL – Tulane Law School Dean David Meyer joined a select group of law school deans from around the world at an international conference in China exploring the challenges of preparing the next generation of lawyers.
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THE GLOBAL LEGAL POST – A study on gender bias in the legal industry by recruiter Cogence Search has found that lawyers are against the introduction of quotas as a means to solve the problem.
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THE VARSITY – Although U of T produces more applicants to American law schools than any other university in Canada, thousands of students will be applying to law schools in Ontario where the number of applicants tells a different story than in the US.
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LAWYERS WEEKLY – The Innovation Inertia: 2015 LexisNexis Roadshow Report combines the findings from the 2015 LexisNexis Australian Legal Industry Innovation Survey and 2015 Innovation Panel Series to reveal that firms struggling to adopt innovative practices are at risk of falling by the wayside.
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