Using virtual reality to learn courtroom skills
LAW 360 — A volunteer training program through the San Francisco Bar Association is one of several planned studies to see whether a 15-minute virtual reality experience might make attorneys usually holed up in cubicles more willing to take on pro bono work and, when they do, win better outcomes for their clients.
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INSIGHT INTO DIVERSITY — Law schools are offering increased opportunities to become involved in immigration law as students become more impassioned. Helping advocate for and protect asylum seekers, however, doesn’t only happen near the border. Legal educators and students across the U.S. are finding innovative ways to reach vulnerable immigrant populations within their communities.
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INSIGHT INTO DIVERSITY — For more than 35 years, the AccessLex Institute has provided resources to law schools and scholars by recognizing student barriers and offering services that help improve legal education access. The institute is a self-funded powerhouse of reinvestments for legal education.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — New paper published in The Review of Higher Education makes the case for paying more attention to pretenure faculty members’ emotions as a key component of their — and the institution’s — success.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — New data from Council of Graduate Schools’s Ph.D. Career Pathway Project show nonlinear career paths and cross-sector movement among Ph.D.s three, eight and 15 years postgraduation, with implications for graduate training.
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ABA JOURNAL — In this episode of Asked and Answered with the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward, Marquette Law alumnus Michael Anspach ’18 talks about his road to success after law school, his self-care tips and how he learned to quiet his mind.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — The California Bar starting in January will be prohibited from seeking prospective lawyers’ mental health records under a just-enacted law. California becomes the latest state to remove the requirement for prospective lawyers to indicate their mental health and sign over medical records under Senate Bill 544.
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COURT NEWS OHIO — University of Akron Law students discuss the ways in which they prepare for the Ohio Bar Exam. Many of the prospective attorneys opt for a solo approach as the simplest way to dictate their schedules and study habits. They also simulate real-life scenarios.
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CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS — The University of Akron Law’s Trademark Clinic is one of only a handful of clinics around the country that are specially designated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to allow students to prosecute trademark applications. Since 2016, students in the clinic have filed 100 trademark application and obtained 48 registrations.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Tuesday, July 23, AUWCL Law Professor Robert Dinerstein, who oversees the Disability Rights Law Clinic, testified at a D.C. Council hearing regarding the District’s transition efforts as it looks to end a program which provides a range of medical and social services for people with disabilities.
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