Boston University Law students spend winter break providing legal aid to asylum seekers
BU TODAY — On a December weekend when most students were frantically cramming for finals or getting in some last-minute Christmas shopping, Chelsea Tejada (LAW’20) was visiting safe houses in the hills outside Tijuana, Mexico, helping LGBTQ refugees from Central America who are seeking asylum in the United States.
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ALBANY LAW — Albany Law School has received a transformative $15 million gift from an anonymous donor. This investment in the future of Albany Law will provide extraordinary support for the law school and for the legal programs and services provided by the Albany Law School Law Clinic and Justice Center.
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NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL — Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge of the State of New York, addresses one of the most serious challenges facing the Bar and Bench today: How can we make sure that every person gets their day in court?
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LEGAL TECH NEWS — The use of AI in legal may not be as widespread as one would think: Only 10 percent of lawyers used artificial intelligence-based tech tools for their legal work in 2018. The findings come from a survey conducted in the ABA’s “2018 Legal Technology Survey Report,” with 900 respondents.
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ABA JOURNAL — The legal sector is increasingly providing nontraditional benefits, such as flexible work arrangements, paid volunteer time and pet-friendly offices, according to a new report.
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ABA JOURNAL — As the government shutdown drags on, and federal employees face the first Friday without a paycheck, the American Bar Association is offering five free CLE courses to any lawyer affected by the partial government shutdown.
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CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — When it comes to diversity, graduate schools talk a good game. Well-intentioned professors and administrators want a graduate-student cohort that looks like America, but one look at the demographics shows how far we are from that goal.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL — The Federal Reserve has linked rising student debt to a drop in homeownership among young Americans and the flight of college graduates from rural areas, two big shifts that have helped reshape the U.S. economy.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — All of the so-called M7 or very elite business schools reported drops in M.B.A. applications, this year, according to a survey by Poets and Quants. The drops ranged from 2.6 percent at Columbia University to 8.2 percent at the University of Chicago.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — New York University’s medical school in August stunned the world of medical education with the news that it had raised enough money to offer full-tuition scholarships to all students (more than 400 across classes) going forward.
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