Loyola Law School, Los Angeles student shares experience as summer extern at U.S. patent office in Thailand
LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL LOS ANGELES – Julius Bodie, a rising third-year day student at Loyola, is spending his summer as an extern at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Regional I.P. Attaché for Southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I – The UH Board of Regents has approved a new Doctor of Laws degree at the UH Law School, which is already accepting applications for Fall 2016 from students who have completed an LLM or JD degree.
Read More about Hawai’i Law offers new Doctor of Laws degree for students with a LL.M or J.D.Saint Louis University Law launches grant-funded effort to increase diversity in the legal profession
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH – Through the PLUS grant, SLU will have $300,000 at its disposal over three years to help dozens of mostly minority college students get better acquainted with the ins and outs of the legal profession.
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DAILY TARHEEL – “Bianca Mack, assistant dean for admissions, attributes the decline in applicants to several factors, including a surplus of recent law graduates crowding the job market.”
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THE DAILY COUGAR – Hours after the South Texas College of Law announced it would change its name to Houston College of Law, UH representatives said in a statement that the institution will pursue “any and all appropriate legal actions” to protect its brand and interests.
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CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS – “‘I think that the prospects for a lawyer in Cleveland are fair to excellent, depending upon what area they choose to get involved in,’ said Ian Friedman of Friedman & Nemecek in Cleveland.”
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA – Alexander W. Scherr has been named the University of Georgia School of Law’s new associate dean for clinical programs and experiential learning.
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HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – Jocelyn Kennedy, former director for library services at the University of Connecticut School of Law, is the new executive director of the Harvard Law School Library.
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NAPLES DAILY NEWS – Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., is pleased to welcome three law students, Caleb Hinton, Alexander Howell and Dillon McColgan.
Read More about Three students at Florida law schools get on-the-job training at Naples-area law firmState governor signs bill strengthening environmental court at Hawai’i Law
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I – Hawaiʻi Governor David Ige signed Senate Bill 2453, a bill that strengthens Hawaiʻi’s Environmental Court system, into law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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