Legal community rallies around Yale Law graduate denied bar admission for teenage indiscretions
YALE NEWS – Betts’ story has attracted national attention and sparked a public debate about the equity of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Read More about Legal community rallies around Yale Law graduate denied bar admission for teenage indiscretionsHarvard Law’s David Wilkins named to ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Education
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – David Wilkins ’80, the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been named to the American Bar Association’s Commission on the Future of Legal Education.
Read More about Harvard Law’s David Wilkins named to ABA Commission on the Future of Legal EducationRecent Case Western Reserve Law graduate wins regional bankruptcy law award
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Yamane is the 2017 Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar Distinguished Law Student.
Read More about Recent Case Western Reserve Law graduate wins regional bankruptcy law awardLargest ever group of black UC Berkeley Law students, alumni secure federal clerkships
DAILY CALIFORNIAN – 11 Black Berkeley Law students and alumni secured federal judicial clerkships this year, the highest known number of clerkships obtained by the school’s Black students and graduates in a single application cycle.
Read More about Largest ever group of black UC Berkeley Law students, alumni secure federal clerkshipsPenn Law graduate awarded postgraduate fellowship to work with Southern Poverty Law Center’s Special Litigation Practice Group
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL – David Washington L’15 has been named the Penn Law Civil Rights Fellow, a new, two-year, postgraduate fellowship created by Penn Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Read More about Penn Law graduate awarded postgraduate fellowship to work with Southern Poverty Law Center’s Special Litigation Practice GroupIllinois Law alumnus named president-elect of National Bar Association
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW – Juan Thomas ’96 has been selected as the President of the National Bar Association.
Read More about Illinois Law alumnus named president-elect of National Bar AssociationLoyola Law Chicago graduate and former inmate uses law degree to help exonerate other wrongfully convicted persons with the Wisconsin Law professor who helped free him
NBC – Lester Holt interviews Jarrett Adams, who was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault when he was just 17 and — as an attorney — is now helping others who are in similar positions as he used to be.
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FOREX TV – John Marshall graduate and Adjunct Professor Lynne Ostfeld (’85) was presented with the French National Order of Merit in recognition of her many contributions to France.
Read More about John Marshall Law adjunct professor knighted for contributions to FrancePepperdine Law names alumna as new Director of Externships and Pro Bono Programs
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Sophia Hamilton joined the Pepperdine Law faculty on August 1 as Director of Externships and Pro Bono Programs and Adjunct Professor for Academic Success and Bar Preparation.
Read More about Pepperdine Law names alumna as new Director of Externships and Pro Bono ProgramsYale Law graduate faces additional hurdle to bar approval due to criminal record
ABA JOURNAL – Reginald Dwayne Betts, 36, passed the state bar exam in February but now must, by “clear and convincing evidence,” prove his rehabilitation to a panel of judges on the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee.
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