Advice for students with disabilities applying to law schools
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — While applying to and attending law school are difficult for anyone, people with disabilities often face extra hurdles on the path to practicing law. Depending on an applicant’s specific disabilities, those burdens can take many forms, from stress and time burdens to practical barriers.
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LAW SCHOOL TOOLBOX — Are you dissatisfied with law school class discussions about legal doctrine and policy goals? Are you not sure what practice area is a good fit for you? Are you tired of reading cases and doing legal research? Working during the summer gives law students a more comprehensive understanding of what lawyers…
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BAR EXAM TOOLBOX — Today, we’re focusing on an important topic in Evidence – the Best Evidence Rule, which requires a witness to produce the document whose contents he or she is testifying about.
Read More about Podcast: How evidence differs from other topics on the Bar ExamFormer North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin to serve as founding dean High Point University Law
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — High Point University announces that Mark Martin will serve as the founding dean of HPU’s new School of Law. Martin’s successful career includes previously serving as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, as an Associate Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and most recently as…
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FIVE THIRTY EIGHT — America’s racial wealth gap is well-documented, even if many continue to underestimate its existence. Black Americans’ net worth is, on average, less than 15 percent of white Americans’, the legacy of centuries of systemic anti-Black racism. Moreover, both political parties have failed time and again to address the inequities facing Black…
Read More about How cancelling student debt could help close the racial wealth gapUniversity Arkansas of Law announces Dean’s Circle Award winners
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS — The U of A School of Law has announced the 2022 Dean’s Circle Award recipients. The awards were created to recognize faculty for their excellence in teaching and advising, research and scholarship, and public service, as well as a staff member for their commitment and dedication to students and the…
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LAW — How does a winning trial attorney ensure that the jurors are well-suited to decide the specific case on trial? That is the objective of a successful voir dire—and the aim of ADA Ryan Calvert’s first-ever Voir Dire Boot Camp offered to Baylor Law students in May 2022.
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PATCH — Boston College’s Public Interest Law Foundation is one of 140 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000 each through Cummings Foundation’s $25 Million Grant Program.
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ABA JOURNAL — Anyone who’s studied domestic violence law is likely familiar with the woman who pioneered its study in law schools, wrote the textbook Domestic Violence Law and regularly testifies as a domestic violence expert witness. In a practice area most attorneys agree is emotionally draining and personally trying, Nancy K.D. Lemon has shown…
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REUTERS — The University of California Hastings College of the Law will submit a plan for renaming the school to state lawmakers for approval by midsummer, its dean said this week, seeking to end its association with a bloody chapter in the state’s history.
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