Washburn Law graduate appointed as clerk of appellate courts
WIBW (KANSAS) – The Kansas Supreme Court announced today that it has appointed Douglas T. Shima to be clerk of the appellate courts at the judicial center in Topeka.
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SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE – Sweet Briar College has announced that Loyola Law School professor Georgene Vairo of Santa Barbara is the new vice chair of its board of directors.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY – Georgia State University College of Law is one of only two law schools accepted this year into the national honors society for legal education, the Order of the Coif.
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KGOU (NPR OKLAHOMA) – Local leaders like Dean Emeritus of the University of Oklahoma’s College of Law Andrew Coats are also part of the Commission. The findings will be part of the first-ever bipartisan and independent review of the state’s capital punishment system.
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY – James J. Alfini, former dean of the NIU College of Law, will present the 23rd annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism on Friday, April 1, in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom of Swen Parson Hall.
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES – The town-hall style conversation with law students and faculty will “continue to shed light on why it is so important that everyone does their job and give Judge Garland a fair hearing and an up-or-down vote,” White House Strategic Communications Advisor Rachel Racusen told the Chicago Sun-Times.
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WVLT (CBS KNOXVILLE) – The Community Law School is a public education program sponsored by the Knoxville Bar Association that offers free seminars on areas of the law that concern every citizen.
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THE WASHINGTON POST – The George Mason School of Law will be renamed in honor of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who died earlier this year.
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GOODCALL – With enrollment at law schools around the country on the decline and law remaining the only degree that requires one standardized test to get in, some schools are rethinking the Law School Admittance Test or LSAT.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – A survey asked more than 7,000 law school alumni from seven schools in the Southeast what they thought of their degree.
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