BYU Law hosts 4th annual law and corpus linguistics conference
PR NEWSWIRE — BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation in the legal field, held its fourth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference February 6-8. The symposium brought together prominent legal and corpus linguistics scholars.
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BAYLOR NEWS — Baylor Law students Carson May, Molly Maier, and Tori Coates assisted a lawyer from the Waco firm of Scanes & Routh prepare for an argument before the Texas Supreme Court. The case, Worsdale v. City of Killeen, Texas involved the issue of requirement of ‘notice’ under the Texas Tort Claims Act.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE LAW — Elizabeth Paige, a member of the University of Baltimore School of Law Class of 2020, is the winner of a prestigious Newman Civic Fellow Award. It was established to honor student leaders dedicated to creating lasting change and building a better world.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE LAW — On Feb. 20, in Timbs v. Indiana, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously vacated a lower court ruling. In doing so, it decided that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is applicable to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — – Nicholas Linn, a second-year law student, recently returned from a five-day trip to Singapore as part of his work in the University of Arkansas School of Law’s Human Trafficking Clinic.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Tuesday, March 5th, American University Washington College of Law hosted “A Panel Discussion on National Security, Intelligence, and Cyber Security,” moderated by Professor Fernando Laguarda with a special appearance from member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT).
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Monday, March 4, American University Washington College of Law welcomed premier First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams to campus for a “Free Speech Celebration.”
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LAW.COM — The Big Law recruiting scene got a jolt in December when the National Association for Law Placement tossed its long-standing guidelines regarding when and how employers hire summer associates in hopes of spurring innovation.
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LAW.COM — In this week’s podcast, we hear from Law.com legal education editor Karen Sloan about some surprises in this year’s report, which includes the top 50 law schools with the biggest percentage of 2018 J.D. graduates who took first-year associate jobs at major law firms.
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ABA JOURNAL — Law firms offered jobs to nearly 97 percent of associates coming out of summer programs last year, a historic high, according to the National Association for Law Placement. Eighty-eight percent of those associates accepted their offers, which was also a high, NALP said in a press release and report.
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