University of Houston Law hosts Mental Health Week
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center students were treated to food, fun and functions from Oct. 7–Oct. 10 as part of Mental Health Week, a program inspired by the National Mental Health Day for law schools recognized yearly on Oct. 10. In addition to a relaxation station set up in the library…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Attorneys in the LGBTQ community said it is incumbent upon people of all orientations to create an inclusive atmosphere during a recent talk at the University of Houston Law Center. The event was presented by OutLaw, a student organization for LGBT concerns devoted to the issues of gay, lesbian,…
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SPECTATOR USA — Democratic presidential contender and entrepreneur Andrew Yang had quite the Monday in our nation’s capital. By the evening, Yang reached the Howard University School of Law for a scheduled ‘roundtable discussion’, which Cockburn had the pleasure of attending.
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THE LEWISTON TRIBUNE — Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will discuss “climate change and the future of energy” during the University of Idaho’s annual Sherman J. Bellwood Lecture Wednesday. The Sherman J. Bellwood Lectures is intended to give students the opportunity to discuss and debate a variety of subjects related to the justice…
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THE DAILY IOWAN — University of Iowa Law Professor and former Faculty Senate President Christina Bohannan, a Democrat, announced her candidacy for the Iowa House District 85 seat on Monday. Bohannan said in a news release that, if elected, she will focus on restoring unions’ collective-bargaining rights, raising the minimum wage for Iowa, and encouraging the state…
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Maine School of Law was recently awarded a three-year grant from the Betterment Fund to continue the Rural Lawyer Project. This grant enables Maine Law to build upon a successful pilot program that was designed to solve a growing crisis in Maine’s rural communities: access to…
Read More about University of Maine Law receives grant to continue Rural Lawyer ProjectUMass Law announces July 2019 bar exam results for graduates
UMASS DARTHMOUTH — According to the latest bar exam results released today by Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, the UMass Dartmouth-based UMass School of Law outscored the statewide average for the second year in a row, just three years after receiving full American Bar Association accreditation. On the July 2019 Massachusetts Bar Exam, UMass Law’s pass rate…
Read More about UMass Law announces July 2019 bar exam results for graduatesMichigan State University Law dean Lawrence Ponoroff discusses today’s legal education and legal profession
WKAR –Dean Ponoroff says today’s law students are “much more focused and serious about the tracks they’re on because they’re paying an enormous price for the education. So they are better consumers of legal education than was certainly true in the past. They’re much more visual oriented in learning than certainly I was.” Ponoroff says…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO — The University of New Mexico School of Law celebrates the closing reception featuring Emeritus Professor of Law Sherri Burr’s exhibition of ‘400 Years of Freedom, Restrictions, and Survival,’ on Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the African American Performing Arts Center Foundation. The exhibit commemorates the first arrival…
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini and New York Law School (NYLS) today announced that the District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Bureau has been awarded more than $849,000 in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to aid in the investigation of wrongful conviction claims, including a $275,000 partnership…
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