Legal industry is seeing a growing number of innovations
FORBES – While precedent remains a guiding principle in the practice of law, innovation is transforming the models, methods, and players involved in the buy/sell process of legal services.
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U.S. NEWS – By carefully weighing your job prospects, looking closely at academic and experiential offerings, and coming up with a savvy payment strategy, you greatly increase the odds of finding the right path for you.
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CANADIAN LAWYER – While Harvard Law School recently announced it would be allowing students to take the GRE, it’s likely that Canadian law schools won’t follow this trend in the near future.
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ABA JOURNAL – The heads of more than 150 U.S. law firms have written a letter to the Trump administration expressing concern.
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BLOOMBERG LAW – Jim Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corp., said he expects Congress will ignore Trump’s budget and grant his organization’s full request for $502.7 million.
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U.S. NEWS – Law schools with both former prosecutors and defense attorneys on the faculty offer a strong foundation for a criminal law career, experts say.
Read More about Advice for aspiring criminal defense attorneysU.S. News & World Report releases 2018 law school rankings
U.S. NEWS – The six graduate disciplines U.S. News ranks annually are evaluated on factors such as employment rates and starting salaries for graduates and standardized test scores of newly enrolled students.
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U.S. NEWS – U.S. News published the 2018 Best Law Schools rankings, providing aspiring lawyers with information on the cost of attendance at 197 ranked law schools and the annual earnings of recent graduates, among other data.
Read More about Law school costs, salary prospects from U.S. News dataAttorney General Sessions requests resignations of all remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by Obama administration
ABA JOURNAL – Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested the immediate resignations of all remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by President Barack Obama who have not already left office.
Read More about Attorney General Sessions requests resignations of all remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by Obama administrationOregon Law names Houston Law Center’s Marcilynn Burke as Dean
REGISTER-GUARD – Marcilynn Burke, associate dean at the University of Houston law school, will start her new job July 1.
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