Michigan removes mental health questions from bar exam
LANSING STATE JOURNAL — The Michigan Supreme Court announced Wednesday it had directed the Board of Law Examiners to remove questions that ask for details about applicants’ mental health histories.
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ABA JOURNAL — The New Jersey Supreme Court has suspended a lawyer who falsified a law school transcript when he sought a job with Williams & Connolly. Seth Asher Nadler received a one-year suspension for reporting grades higher than he had earned and reporting high grades in courses he had never taken…
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ABA JOURNAL — It’s a good way to deal with anxiety around the coronavirus, regardless of whether you have an addiction issue, says Bree Buchanan, president of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs.
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ABA JOURNAL — From advising employers how to respond when an employee tests positive for coronavirus to counseling employees afraid of catching it at the office, lawyers are working around the clock to help clients navigate the uncharted legal waters sparked by the rapidly spreading COVID-19.
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THE INDIANA LAWYER — Legal aid providers in Indiana are still serving clients as the coronavirus storm gathers strength, but they are worried about the surge they anticipate will come after the outbreak has passed. Mueller noted the people who depend on legal aid are typically hit hardest whenever the economy cycles downward. ILS, he said, is…
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ABA JOURNAL — Both Above the Law and the American Lawyer have produced and updated lists of mostly BigLaw firms asking employees to work at home. The policies are spurred by concerns about transmission of the novel coronavirus.
Read More about List of law firms switching to teleworkingBaylor Law launches online version of Legal Mapmaker program
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LAW — In order to impact more lawyers, and offer distance continuing education during the current coronavirus outbreak, Baylor Law’s Legal Mapmaker program is now available for free to any U.S. attorney via an online learning portal. In exchange, lawyers must agree to take at least one pro-bono case in the next 12 months.
Read More about Baylor Law launches online version of Legal Mapmaker programCornell Law professor Nelson Tebbe delivers address on the First Amendment at University of Houston Law
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Cornell Law School Professor Nelson Tebbe suggested that speech and religious provisions in the Constitution should be reassessed during a recent presentation at the University of Houston Law Center.
Read More about Cornell Law professor Nelson Tebbe delivers address on the First Amendment at University of Houston LawHarvard Law Animal Law & Policy Clinic files amicus brief to U.S. Supreme Court on the border’s impact on animals and the ecosystem
HARVARD LAW TODAY — In early March, Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic filed its first Supreme Court amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari by the Center for Biological Diversity. The brief challenged the Trump administration’s waiver of all environmental and other laws in connection with the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico…
Read More about Harvard Law Animal Law & Policy Clinic files amicus brief to U.S. Supreme Court on the border’s impact on animals and the ecosystemHarvard Law professors Jim Greiner and Glenn Cohen co-author paper on the value of randomized trials in legal research
HARVARD LAW TODAY — This month two Harvard Law School Professors, Jim Greiner, faculty director of Access to Justice Lab, and I. Glenn Cohen ’03, faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics, teamed with Holly Fernandez Lynch (former Petrie-Flom executive director, now a medical professor at the University of Pennsylvania) to write a paper, “Overcoming obstacles…
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