Georgetown Law releases report on the state of the modern legal market
GEORGETOWN LAW — Previous “alternatives” such as alternative fee arrangements & ALSPs are now “the norm”, says new report from Georgetown Law and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Third-year University of Houston Law Center student Megan Rollag earned top honors in the 2019-2020 Association of International Petroleum Negotiators Writing Competition with her paper, “Future of Cross-Border Pipeline Projects in AMLO’s Mexico: What’s the Risk.”
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The University of Houston Law Center was recognized for enhancing global legal skills and global legal skills education at the 14th Global Legal Skills Conference in December at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix. The national conference highlights individuals, institutions, and law schools around the world…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Professionals from several disciplines will discuss methods of counteracting human trafficking during an upcoming discussion at the University of Houston Law Center. The workshop will include personal testimonies from survivors of human trafficking, definitions, warning signs, care techniques, preventative measures and how to properly report human trafficking.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Katy Stein Badeaux, head of faculty services at the University of Houston Law Center’s O’Quinn Law Library, was recently elected president of the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries. She will begin her term as president following the 2020 SWALL Annual Meeting from March 26-28 in San Antonio, where several members of…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Seven organizations dedicated to protecting the animals, people, and environments that suffer due to industrial animal agriculture filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging its decision to reduce oversight at pig slaughterhouses and eliminate limits on the slaughter speeds, exposing pigs to greater suffering and…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, co-authored a petition to Oregon policymakers to establish a cap on toxic diesel emissions from non-road sources such as construction sites, distribution centers and railyards. Oregon’s clean air laws lag behind nearly every other state…
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LSU NEWS — LSU Law Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur has been honored by one of the top civil law schools in Eastern Europe with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa. Levasseur’s connections to Romania can be traced all the way back to the 1970s and ‘80s, when his father was the French Ambassador in the country. As…
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LSU NEWS — Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge, David Weston Robinson Professor of Law and McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law, has been named interim dean of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Lockridge will act as interim dean while Dean Tom Galligan serves as LSU’s interim president as LSU conducts a national search for a new…
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LSU LAW — LSU Law’s annual Apprenticeship Week kicks off on Monday, Jan. 6, bringing volunteer master lawyers and judges to the Law Center to teach students a wide variety of mini-courses aimed at providing focused, task-oriented training that’s usually only available through actual practice experience.
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