Berkeley Law event offers advice for women interested in corporate law
LAW.COM — Lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, Wilson Sonsini Goorich & Rosati and Netflix Inc. shared their recruitment stories, tips and observations at a Berkeley Center for Law and Business event aimed at promoting women in business law.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — On Friday, June 21, American University Washington College of Law Professor Amanda Frost testified before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property & the Internet during the hearing “The Federal Judiciary in the 21st Century: Ideas for Promoting Ethics, Accountability, & Transparency.”
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WASHINGTON POST — The premise of Ronald Krotoszynski’s June 12 op-ed, “Bigger is not better at law school,” that there just isn’t enough demand for lawyers these days to justify admitting more law students, is wrong.
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LAW.COM — At this very moment, some top law students are likely scrambling to schedule interviews with federal judges in hopes of landing a coveted clerkships—a resume booster that can pay career dividends.
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ABA NEWS — The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released today Formal Opinion 487 that addresses fee splitting arrangements when a lawyer in a separate firm replaces the first counsel rather than works together on a contingency-fee case.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Previously relegated to the political fringes, calls for broad student debt cancellation are now being taken seriously — a sign of how new energy is being devoted to challenges for current student borrowers.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The House of Representatives passed fiscal year 2020 spending legislation Wednesday that boosts the size of the Pell Grant and directs billions in new funding to scientific research.
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ABOVE THE LAW — For those of us who entered law school without any experience of the legal world beyond what we’d seen on television, it’s no real surprise that we mostly ended up as litigators.
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ABA JOURNAL — First-year law students at the University of Missouri who volunteered for mindfulness training saw improvements in stress, well-being and mindful awareness, according to a study chronicled in a law review article.
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LAW.COM — Law school graduates from the University of San Diego and the University of Southern California beat the average pass rate on the February 2019 bar exam by more than 20 percentage points
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