Wesleyan University-Philippines opens law school in Cabanatuan City
INQUIRER.NET – Wesleyan University-Philippines (WU-P), one of the largest and oldest universities in Central Luzon, has opened a law school in its main campus in Cabanatuan City with former human rights lawyer and party-list congressman JV Bautista as its first dean.
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ITBUSINESS.CA – A startup team born out of the University of Toronto that wants to use IBM Corp.’s Watson artificial intelligence to shake up the legal industry is setting its sites on international expansion after winning a summer cohort spot at a reputable Silicon Valley incubator.
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THE HINDU – India needs to have globally recognised and respected law institutions, which must attract best human resources to achieve excellence, Supreme Court judge Justice T. S. Thakur said.
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PULSE.NG – The Council of Legal Education released results of the bar exams and apparently, most of them will have to return to Law School, Vanguard reports. Of the 5,588 candidates who sat for the exams conducted in April and May, 2015, only four candidates made First Class and a total number of 109 candidates made Second…
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DEMERARA WAVES – Faced with the ongoing problem of a number of Jamaica’s lawyers not accounting for clients’ cash in real estate transactions, that Caribbean island is keen on learning about the Guyanese model in which the monies do not have to pass through lawyers’ hands.
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LIVEMINT – Two recent incidents have seen much debate over India’s criminal justice system.
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SOLICITORS JOURNAL – The Legal Education Foundation (TLEF) is to offer seven training contracts designed to produce a new generation of specialist social justice lawyers and increase access to justice for the UK’s most vulnerable.
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THE STAR PHOENIX – It’s been almost a year to the day since a study by the Canadian Bar Association recommended that regulators open the door for Canadian law firms to be owned by non-lawyers. What has happened since?
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SLAW – The official announcement of the launch states that LegalX is “dedicated to moving the legal sector forward through enterprises — whether startup or established corporates and law firms — LegalX at MaRS will connect the technologists, designers, coders, engineers and lawyers who are driving change.”
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INDIANA-MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW NEWS – Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen was in Vietnam for the Securitization of Non-Performing Loans Project.
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