LSAC launches access to justice challenge for law students
LAW.COM — Known more for administering the LSAT, the Law School Admission Council is now accepting applications from U.S. law students with ideas on how to aid low-income people’s legal needs for its first Justice Innovation Challenge.
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LAW.COM — The maker of the Law School Admission Test this month announced that it’s reinstating limits on the number of times people may take the entrance exam, just two years after doing away with its previous limits.
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THE AMERICAN LAWYER — As the recession rattled law schools and graduates, schools were forced to get more creative, leading to changes that have endured.
Read More about How law school career services adapted to the recessionThe history of four University of Wisconsin Law women graduates who practiced law before they had the right to vote
FONT DU LAC REPORTER — In September 1886, Kate Pier and her daughter Kate Hamilton Pier walked into a classroom at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For women, being in the space was a rarity. Men filled it, much like the field the women were looking to enter: law.
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SCHMIDT FUTURES — The Alliance for the American Dream is a project designed to reduce inequality and relieve poverty in the United States.
Read More about University of Wisconsin Law students win competition focused on solutions to poverty and inequalityVermont Law Center for Agriculture and Food Systems launches free lease tool for farmers
VERMONT BIZ — Vermont Business Magazine The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems(link is external) (CAFS) has launched a free Farm Lease Builder as part of their Farmland Access Legal Toolkit. The Farm Lease Builder creates a free customized lease draft for farmers based on their specific needs, significantly reducing the cost of legal services.
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TAMU LAW — Earlier this spring, the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University School of Law devoted its annual symposium to commemorating the silver anniversary of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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MILITARY.COM — From Okinawa to Germany and bases in the U.S., military spouses and active-duty troops are attending a law school in upstate New York, thanks to the first online program accredited by the American Bar Association.
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ABA JOURNAL — Rather than relying on one prep course for the Law School Admission Test, Haley Taylor Schlitz, a 16-year-old recent college graduate, took three within a five-month period.
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PEPPERDINE LAW — Last year, two Professors of Law at Pepperdine were tapped to hold influential positions in the United States government, a testament to our faculty’s commitment to scholarship and service. Babette E. Boliek was appointed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to serve as its 2018-19 Chief Economist.
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