Puerto Rican Bar Association of Florida opens legal clinic, hires displaced Puerto Rican lawyers
ABA JOURNAL — The Puerto Rican Bar Association of Florida has opened a nonprofit legal clinic focused on providing legal services to Puerto Ricans who have settled in Florida after fleeing Hurricane Maria—and the clinic is employing displaced Puerto Rican attorneys.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Professors earn about 15 percent less than others with advanced degrees, finds a study circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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SLATE — In Philadelphia, Justice Sonia Sotomayor addressed a crowd of 7,000 overworked educators who are attempting to solve student addiction, gun violence, hate speech, and unemployment at the NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education conference.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL — Private lenders are pushing for legislative changes to break up the government’s near monopoly in the $100 billion-a-year student-loan market.
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THE INDIANA LAYWER — Attorneys from Goldberg Kohn Ltd. and environmental clinics from the law schools at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago are representing the East Chicago residents pro bono in an environmental clean-up case. The residents argued the cleanup was progressing too slowly and public-health and environment threats remained.
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THE RECORDER — A federal judge has ruled that the Law School Admission Council is still falling short when it comes to accommodating disabled test takers.
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ABA BEFORE THE BAR BLOG — The American Bar Association Law Student Division Council issued a statement calling for additional reporting disclosures for law schools already authorized under Standard 509.
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THE SEATTLE TIMES — Washington is the first state in the country to offer the Limited License Legal Technician program for legal services.
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — While securing a fee waiver from Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is very difficult and only covers a small portion of the overall cost of a legal education, there are three potential ways to obtain an application fee waiver directly from law schools.
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KOIN 6 NEWS — Student activists protested against Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative scholar on feminism invited as a guest of the Federalist Society, at Lewis & Clark Law School on March 5th.
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