Vanderbilt Law immigration clinic and law professor Karla M. McKanders honored by the American Immigration Lawyers Association
TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION — Vanderbilt Law’s Immigration Clinic and law professor Karla M. McKanders were the recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s MidSouth Pro Bono Award for their work in finding pro bono attorneys for individuals arrested in the Immigration Customs Enforcement raid in Morristown, TN last year.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Legal Writing Fellows are 2L and 3L students who help mentor 1Ls as they navigate the school’s yearlong Legal Research and Writing course, part of University of Virginia Law’s Legal Research and Writing Program. Students complete writing assignments that culminate in a memo and an appellate brief.
Read More about A look at the University of Virginia Law Legal Writing Fellows programUniversity of Virginia Law student and retired Air Force Lt. Col. Nevah Jones seeks to help fellow veterans with degree
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Incoming Virginia Law 1L student Nevah Jones served for 20 years as an aircraft maintenance officer in the U.S. Air Force. Now the retired lieutenant colonel and GI Bill recipient wants to earn a J.D. to repair the health care bureaucracy for her fellow veterans.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL — A Wisconsin Law community partnership earned first place honors and $1.1 million in provisional funding from the Alliance for the American Dream. The partnership, LIFT Dane, helps Dane County families who are weighed down by fixable civil legal problems.
Read More about University of Wisconsin Law community partnership honored by Alliance for the American DreamGift to Yale Law to support student and faculty efforts promoting human rights and social justice
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Yale Law School has received a gift from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation to support the efforts of students and faculty who are working to advance social justice and human rights. As a result of this gift, the Rule of Law Clinic will be named for philanthropist Peter Gruber.
Read More about Gift to Yale Law to support student and faculty efforts promoting human rights and social justiceYale Law housing clinic to provide aid to area residents displaced after housing closure
HARTFORD COURANT — Christian Activities Council is starting a new project to ensure residents secure safe and decent housing. Yale Law’s Housing Clinic will also provide pro-bono services, and Greater Hartford Hartford Legal Aid and the Connecticut Fair Housing Center will lend support.
Read More about Yale Law housing clinic to provide aid to area residents displaced after housing closureTeens learn the law through games
ABA JOURNAL — Chicago criminal defense attorney and entrepreneur April Preyar is making sure youth are game to learn about the law. Preyar has been on a mission to educate teens about what to do—and what not to do—during encounters with police.
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ABA JOURNAL — University of California, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky described the narrow confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s illness. The court seemed to be avoiding the most divisive issues, and the court was as divided as ever, but less so ideologically.
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NERDWALLET — Lawyers earn a median salary of $120,910, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the amount you’ll make depends on many factors, including what type of law you practice and at which firm.
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LAW.COM — This week’s Ahead of the Curve looks at Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast analysis of the LSAT, Mississippi College School of Law Dean Patricia Bennett pulling double duty as Mississippi state bar president, and why the cool kid law students end up at University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
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