Q and A with Creighton Law Health Law Program Director Kelly Dineen
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Kelly Dineen, RN, JD, PhD, started her position as director of the health law program and assistant professor at Creighton University’s School of Law in July 2017.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law has launched a new mobile app to help students and others engage with all aspects of the law school and UCLA community.
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ABA NEWS — Five inspiring women lawyers, including former University of Arkansas Dean Cynthia Nance, were honored at the ABA Annual Meeting with the 2018 ABA Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award and lauded as pioneers supporting the careers of other women lawyers nationally and internationally.
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UA NEWS — In a new program developed jointly by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the Mexican Foreign Ministry (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores), Mexican diplomats are learning the foundations of American law.
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ASU NOW — A new Arizona task force works to right wrongful convictions through hair evidence. The task force includes representatives from attorney general’s office, Department of Public Safety, Phoenix police crime lab, Arizona Justice Project and ASU law college.
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ABA JOURNAL — The number of jobs in the legal services section seesawed this summer, increasing by 3,200 in June and then dropping by 2,100 in July, according to revised, seasonally adjusted numbers released by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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THE INDIANA LAWYER — A resolution was approved by the ABA House of Delegates that is aimed at streamlining the advertising rules for attorneys and bringing them in line with modern technology and competitive practices.
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ASSOCIATIONS NOW — The American Bar Association House of Delegates has approved a series of reduced membership rates intended to attract new lawyers or bring back lapsed members to the organization.
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ABA JOURNAL — Preliminary results from an ABA survey underscored the disparate challenges, stereotypes and burdens women lawyers faced compared to their male colleagues, even at the senior level.
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ABA JOURNAL — ABA’s House of Delegates voted to urge legal employers not to require mandatory arbitration of harassment claims. The resolution doesn’t seek to eliminate arbitration in all instances but opposes mandatory binding arbitration that employees cannot opt out of.
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