North Carolina legal community provides aid after Hurricane Florence
NORTH CAROLINA LAWYERS WEEKLY — The North Carolina Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division, the North Carolina Bar Foundation and Legal Aid of North Carolina are working to provide free legal support for those who are impacted by the storm.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW — A number of Lewis & Clark Law School alumni now hold legal positions in Pacific Island nations that give them responsibility over environmental, natural resource, fishery and tourism management
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Telemarketers from several student loan relief companies falsely represented themselves as employees of the federal government and told borrowers they could not enroll in debt-relief programs like income-based repayment on their own, the New York attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The average student loan debt last year for graduates of four-year colleges who took out loans was $28,650, according to the latest version of an annual report from the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS).
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Education Department received about 28,000 applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness as of June 30 of this year but so far has approved just under 300 applications for loan discharge, according to new federal data.
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WASHINGTON POST — Journalism programs are seeing an increase in applications and more interest from students at a time when the president of the United States is launching fierce and sustained attacks on news reporters and major media outlets.
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ABA JOURNAL — Law school can be a lonely, stressful time, and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing to fit the model of the perfect law student. But there’s no one right way to go to law school, says sociology professor Kathryne M. Young, author of How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School;…
Read More about Podcast: Tips for balancing life and law schoolLaw librarians urge ABA legal education section to reinstate written annual assessment requirement
INDIANA LAWYER — Law librarians bristle as written ABA reports are no longer required after the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar adopted a resolution that eliminated the writing portion of the requirement.
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INDIANA LAWYER — A landmark study of undergraduate students considering law school finds public service factors are key motivators, far ahead of the ability to qualify for a high-paying job or the prestige of the profession.
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NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society has expanded with the addition of Jonathan Hannah as program director.
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