Retiring Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas G. Saylor will become scholar-in-residence at Duquesne Law
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY — The Thomas R. Kline Center for Judicial Education of Duquesne University’s School of Law is honored to announce the appointment of Chief Justice Emeritus Thomas G. Saylor as the Center’s inaugural Judicial Scholar-in-Residence. In this role, Chief Justice Emeritus Saylor will provide invaluable assistance to the Center in fulfilling its mission to support…
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UF LAW — Spurred by a $100,000 grant from the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service, the University of Florida Levin College of Law will launch a new Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic in 2022. The law school will match the grant funding to develop the legal clinic and hire the clinic’s inaugural faculty director. Once launched, the clinic’s director and…
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FAMU FORWARD — Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law’s Logan Bartholomew is enrolled in the Field Placement program. Bartholomew is working with the Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) to protect the legal rights and improve the lives of abused, neglected, and abandoned children. In this role, Bartholomew helped draft an appellate brief that…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Stein Scholar Anthony Damelio FCRH ’08, LAW ’22 has been awarded a Skadden Foundation Fellowship, which will begin in the fall of 2022. The program, launched by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in 1988, provides two-year-long fellowships to talented young lawyers who want to pursue public interest law on a…
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FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL — The New York Bar Foundation will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Dean Emeritus and Norris Professor of Law John D. Feerick ’61 during the virtual Annual Assembly and Dinner of the Fellows on January 27, 2022. The New York Bar Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes extraordinary Fellows of the Foundation, their distinguished…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law School will offer its Structural Issues in Law Firm Management program this winter in collaboration with leading Brazilian law firm Mattos Filho the program brings together leaders in the legal industry to discuss changes, innovations, key issues, and best practices with respect to effective law firm management. This is the…
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CONCORD MUSEUM — Join Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy as he discusses his newest collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time—from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. According to the New York Times reviewer, Professor Kennedy is “among the most incisive American commentators on race” and…
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — For Kareem Carryl ’22, starting Harvard Law School in the fall of 2019 was a little nerve-wracking. “It is scary coming Harvard Law School,” he says. “Obviously, you hear about all the amazing alumni — President Barack Obama [’91], First Lady Michelle Obama [’88] — and it feels as though you are coming…
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HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT — The Hawaii Innocence Project at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law has been awarded a substantial grant from the Department of Justice to fund DNA testing. On Tuesday, Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project, announced the program was the recipient of a $573,355 grant from a program…
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HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Hofstra Law students John Margolies 3L and Alyssa Glasshagel 3L competed in Fordham’s Judge Paul Joseph Kelly, Jr. Invitational Trial Competition on November 11-14, 2021. The team advanced to the quarterfinal round with John winning the Best Summation for the competition. “It’s something I’ll cherish for a long time. When I first…
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