Online education programs at law schools face barriers at the state level
INSIDE HIGHER ED — As numerous law schools try to take advantage of new flexibility from their accreditor, some state policies lag behind those ambitions.
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LAW.COM — A pair of prominent law firms are stepping up their efforts to recruit women and minority law students with programs they say are unlike any others now offered in Big Law.
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LAW.COM — Law graduates who expected to sit for the bar exam in the District of Columbia next month are in limbo, awaiting official word on whether the test will take place amid the partial shutdown of the federal government.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gives “significant racial preferences” to underrepresented minority applicants while ignoring race-neutral alternatives for achieving diversity, according to documents filed on Friday in federal court in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Many college students rely on income — whether a parent’s or their own — from closed federal agencies. Some colleges are trying to help.
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USA TODAY — A yearlong USA TODAY Network investigation finds a quarter of graduates from 18 U.S. law schools don’t pass the bar exam within two years. It’s a situation that has created hardship for graduates whose careers have been delayed while they struggle to pay back student loans.
Read More about Details from USA Today report on law school bar passage dataStudents at California law schools help asylum seekers at border
PRI — Ten students from Berkeley Law went to the border town as volunteers with the organization Al Otro Lado, a group providing legal services to migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — On Tuesday, Jan. 22, American University Washington College of Law held its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Commemoration program. This event marked the 20th year that faculty, staff, and students gathered at the law school to celebrate the life and enduring legacy of Dr. King.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — American University Washington College of Law is home to a rich, vibrant intellectual community, evident in our faculty’s expertise and engagement with the legal world in DC and beyond.
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UNLV NEWS — Since opening its doors in August 2017, the Rosenblum Family Foundation Tax Clinic at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law has provided pro bono “tax justice” to qualifying low-income families and taxpayers for whom English is a second language. The clinic serves all of Nevada and is currently managing nearly 50 client…
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