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Minnesota Law human rights clinic helps Salvadoran domestic abuse victim gain asylum

September 8, 2015

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL NEWS – The Law School’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic recently helped a Salvadoran woman gain asylum in the United States.

Former Australian law firm CEO believes legal profession slow to adapt to technology

September 8, 2015

LAWYERS WEEKLY – A former law firm CEO who has entered the ongoing legal education industry believes that the legal profession has been slow to adapt to technology developments.

Pace Law announces new international fellowship for the LL.M comparative legal studies program

September 8, 2015

LLM GUIDE – New York’s Pace Law School has announced a new International Legal Law Fellowship, which includes a full-tuition scholarship for the school’s LL.M. in Comparative Legal Studies.

Business consultant predicts opportunities and challenges for Australian law firms

August 31, 2015

LAWYERS WEEKLY – There will be more losers than winners in the legal sector over the next half-decade, according to one business consultant.

Canadian Lawyer: Tips for managing law school debt

August 31, 2015

CANADIAN LAWYER – “We asked financial advisers, managers at law school financial aid offices, and a few law students about how to keep student debt in check.”

Jamaica law student calls for changes in legal education admission bias

August 31, 2015

JAMAICA OBSERVER – “It is not my desire to disrupt the harmony among my learned friends in the legal profession with whom I hope to develop a long-term amicable relationship; nor is it my wish to throw rocks at the windows from outside the noble institution I am desirous of entering, but there is certainly…

Burned out Big Law lawyers in Canada increasingly turn to online startup firms

August 31, 2015

BLOOMBERG BNA – “Within the last four years, a number of online sites such as UpCounsel and InCloudCounsel have launched to help Big Law’s cast offs — associates and also partners, who couldn’t hack the lifestyle, or didn’t want to stay.”

Australian legal industry trails in global financial recovery

August 31, 2015

AUSTRALIA FINANCIAL REVIEW – The painful data was revealed in a Melbourne Law School and Thomson Reuters report that warns Australia’s lawyers appear to be lagging behind their cohort in the northern hemisphere in recovering from the global financial crisis.

Buffalo Law expands international program with new office

August 31, 2015

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW – As the UB Law School expands its global presence, drawing international students and establishing programs worldwide, a new Office of International and Graduate Programs will build on that momentum.

Notre Dame Law professor chosen to assist in Colombia peace talks

August 24, 2015

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME – Douglass Cassel, professor of law and adviser to the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR), has been appointed by Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos to a bilateral working group in the peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).