University of Texas Law tightens financial controls after fraud against school
ABA JOURNAL — The University of Texas School of Law has tightened its financial controls after an internal audit concluded that a former employee’s improprieties cost the school nearly $1.6 million. According to the audit, the wrongdoing included theft of property, personal purchases charged to the law school account, and improper payments to vendors. The…
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LAW — The Rocky Mountain Innocence Center (RMIC) has cleared the name of a man wrongfully convicted of aggravated sexual assault more than two decades ago. Utah Third District Court Judge Royal I. Hansen signed an order on Sept. 10 exonerating Christopher Wickham, who spent 15 years in prison for a crime…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — A new book by Jessica Lowe, a legal historian and visiting scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law, explores a real-life murder mystery and what the case implies about Americans’ views of justice shortly after the nation’s founding. Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia, Lowe’s…
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UNIV. OF WISCONSIN-MADISON LAW SCHOOL — To mark Constitution Day, Sept. 17, a number of talks and presentations will take place on the UW campus during the month of September. All events are free and open to the public.
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UNIV. OF WISCONSIN-MADISON LAW SCHOOL — Renagh O’Leary has been named to Wisconsin Law Journal’s Up and Coming Lawyers list for 2019. O’Leary is a clinical assistant professor in UW Law School’s Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons project.
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UNIV. OF WISCONSIN-MADISON LAW SCHOOL — Nina Neff, a third-year University of Wisconsin Law student, was named a Ms. JD Fellow for 2019. She is one of ten law students nationally to receive the honor. Ms. JD, a nonprofit agency that supports early career women lawyers, co-founded the fellowship program with the ABA Commission on…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — A landmark conference looking back at ten years of the Affordable Care Act will take place at Yale Law School on September 26-27, 2019.
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ABA JOURNAL — The average score on the July multistate bar exam has increased 1.6 points, the largest year-over-year July increase since 2008, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) announced on September 4, 2019 the launch of the Free Expression Legal Network (FELN) a coalition of law school clinicians and academic non-clinicians who provide pro bono legal support for public interest…
Read More about More than 20 law school clinics create network to support First Amendment issues for journalistsRecent law school graduate discusses the importance of pipeline programs
ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS, BEFORE THE BAR BLOG — Law student, Miosotti Tenecora, recounts her experience in a pipeline program and how that helped her succeed in law school.
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