Advice for law school applicants on handling law school seat deposits
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Because law school admission is a rolling process, applicants will not receive all their decisions at once. Waiting can be hard, but no news isn’t necessarily bad news. Some schools may take many months to make a final decision. So, don’t panic if you haven’t heard back by March.…
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THE WASHINGTON POST — Senate confirmation hearings begin Monday for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court. By any objective measure, she is well qualified for the position. Jackson is Ivy League educated, having earned both her bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard. She has a diversity of…
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NATIONAL JURIST — The University of Minnesota Law School’s new Racial Justice Law Clinic, opening with the start of classes this fall, will provide rich opportunities to make a difference in numerous areas, including the criminal legal system, voting rights, education, employment and housing. Liliana Zaragoza is joining the law school as an associate clinical professor of…
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WIBW — Washburn University will say goodbye to School of Law Dean Carla Pratt after the school’s spring graduation. Washburn University says Law School Dean Carla Pratt will step down from her role after the school’s 2022 spring commencement ceremony. After almost 4 years of service to the school of law, Washburn said Pratt will return to her…
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BIZ NEW ORLEANS — McGlinchey is pleased to announce the return of the annual Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation at Tulane Law School. Professors James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain, from Boston University School of Law, will deliver an address on a citizen’s right to be free from government orthodoxy. This year’s lecture…
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LEGAL PLANET — Registration is now open for California’s 2022 Water Law Symposium, scheduled for Saturday, April 9th. U.C. Davis School of Law has the honor of hosting this year’s Symposium, which is an extraordinary event in two respects: first, it is organized entirely by law students (rather than law firms, water organizations, law professors or commercial…
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UC DAVIS LAW — As part of the UC Davis School of Law Racial Justice Speaker Series, Gabriel “Jack” Chin, professor of law, will speak about the legal history of discrimination against Asians and offer a perspective on the Atlanta murders at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday (March 31). The talk, via Zoom, will cover the history of legal…
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UC HASTINGS LAW — Working with a start-up company, increasing diversity at companies, and advocating for clients are some of the goals of the new recipients of the Center for Business Law Scholarships. UC Hastings law students Lilia Kazemi ‘24 and Sharareh (Sheila) Zerang ‘24 were named this year’s Center for Business Law (CBL) Scholars in March.…
Read More about UC Hastings Law students Lilia Kazemi and Sharareh Zerang receive business law scholarshipsUC Irvine Law professor Shauhin Talesh named American Bar Association Fellow
UCI LAW — Professor Shauhin Talesh has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). Membership is limited to just one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and selected by the ABF Board. The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — It’s not often that law faculty get to shape the decision of the U.S. government on an important foreign policy matter. But CWRU School of Law faculty members and a prominent alumna got to do just that on March 21, 2022, when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced at a…
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