Law firms and tech companies join forces to build blockchain-based platform
ABA JOURNAL — A group of law firms and tech companies have teamed up to develop the Agreements Network, a platform that will aid in the creation, use and sale of smart contracts for lawyers.
Read More about Law firms and tech companies join forces to build blockchain-based platformSummer associates participate in hackathon to ease transition from law school to law firms
BLOOMBERG LAW — Teams of summer associates participated in a hackathon to come up with proposals to ease the transition from law school to Big Law. The winning idea, an online repository of firm data, aims to streamline the summer recruiting process.
Read More about Summer associates participate in hackathon to ease transition from law school to law firmsAdoption of the Uniform Bar Exam could lead to more consistent regulation of lawyers across jurisdictions
ABA JOURNAL — The growing adoption of the UBE is a recognition that lawyers should be allowed to meet the consumer demand for effective and efficient client service across state borders. Applying this rationale to the regulation of attorneys should lead to more coordination among states as they regulate ethics of practicing lawyers.
Read More about Adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam could lead to more consistent regulation of lawyers across jurisdictionsNew rules for the Affordable Care Act could increase costs of students’ health insurance, especially for graduate students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — College health experts are worried students will switch to cheaper, shorter-term health-care plans instead of those offered by institutions. This would result in students, particularly graduate students, paying more for health-care.
Read More about New rules for the Affordable Care Act could increase costs of students’ health insurance, especially for graduate studentsWalmart partners with Council on Legal Education Opportunity on scholarship fund
MARKETWATCH — Walmart made a $100,000 grant to Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc. (CLEO) to launch a scholarship to increase access to legal education among under-represented groups, minorities and low-income adults.
Read More about Walmart partners with Council on Legal Education Opportunity on scholarship fundPresidents of Arizona Summit and WMU-Cooley Law to step down
ABA JOURNAL — Both Donald Lively, the president of Arizona Summit School of Law, and Don LeDuc, the president and dean of Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, are leaving their positions.
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YALE SCHOOL OF LAW — More than two dozen Yale professors, doctors, and students have published a series of groundbreaking articles on the opioid crisis in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Read More about Scholars from Yale Law examine opioid crisis in journal issueYale Law professor selected for Dukeminier Award
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Yale Law professor Douglas NeJaime was named a recipient of the Dukeminier Award. The awards recognize the best sexual orientation and gender identity law review articles of the year and are published in a volume together.
Read More about Yale Law professor selected for Dukeminier AwardYale Law professor cited by federal judge in supervised release ruling
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Yale Law Professor Fiona Doherty, who is an expert on supervised release, probation, and parole, had her work cited in a ruling from the Eastern District of New York.
Read More about Yale Law professor cited by federal judge in supervised release rulingYale Law associate professor cited in Georgia Supreme Court due process case
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Yale Law Clinical Associate Professor Marisol Orihuela was cited but the Georgia Supreme Court in a recent ruling, which held that a defendant’s due process rights were violated by automatic detention.
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