ABA data: Fewer entry level positions for class of 2017 than previous year
ABA JOURNAL — Entry-level hiring has decreased at law firms, in the government and public interest arenas, and in academia, according to employment data released Friday by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
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ABA JOURNAL — Compared to last year, there were 5 percent fewer test-takers for the February 2018 multistate bar exam, and the average score decreased from last year’s 134.1 to 132.8, according to information released Wednesday by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Anyone who works for a nonprofit group that is not a 501(c)(3) organization needs to be wary. An adverse ruling can add years to your countdown clock in the federal public service loan forgiveness program.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Colleges like to tout their commitment to diversity, but the way they recruit students tell a different story. A research study on high school recruitment visits found that high schools that were visited for recruiting events tended to be whiter and wealthier than schools that were not visited.
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NORTHWESTERN NOW — In the 20th episode of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Planet Lex podcast series, Dean Daniel Rodriguez talks to Margaret Hagan, a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession and a lecturer at Stanford’s Design School, about the use of design thinking to help close the access-to-justice gap.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — A new report providing the first state-by-state estimate of lost instruction due to discipline for black and white students with disabilities finds dramatic disparities in suspensions by race. The study was conducted by Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and UCLA’s The Civil Rights Project.
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THE NEWS-GAZETTE — UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky said that universities can fight hate speech without violating the First Amendment — by publicly denouncing it at a free-speech forum at the University of Iowa campus on April 17.
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Aside from taking out student loans or borrowing money from family, scholarships for law school offer another way to fund an expensive legal education.
Read More about Advice for law students on finding outside scholarshipsIntellectual property clinics at Indiana Maurer Law and Notre Dame Law help area inventors launch ideas
THE INDIANA LAWYER — Both Indiana Maurer Law and Notre Dame Law School’s Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinics assist inventors with patents and trademarks. 2L and 3L students interview potential clients, search for prior art, file patent applications and respond to the examiners’ questions.
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ABA JOURNAL — Purdue University’s transaction to acquire Kaplan University, including Concord Law School, is complete, and Martin Pritikin says that he doesn’t expect any changes in day-to-day operations at his online law school, now known as Concord Law School at Purdue University Global.
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