Advice: The pros and cons of employer debt assistance programs for law school debt
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – Companies nationwide are starting to offer a new benefit to debt-ridden employees, assisting them with paying down their student loans. And, law firms are leading the charge in offering this hot new perk, benefit experts say.
Read More about Advice: The pros and cons of employer debt assistance programs for law school debtOpinion: Innovation in legal services changing dynamic for law schools
FORBES – “[M]y coauthor Michele Pistone, a law professor at Villanova University, and I write in newly-published white paper for the Clayton Christensen Institute titled Disrupting Law School, is that the forces of disruptive innovation have arrived firmly in the world of legal services.”
Read More about Opinion: Innovation in legal services changing dynamic for law schoolsRutgers Law School names Michael T. Cahill as co-dean on Camden campus
NJBIZ – A Brooklyn Law School professor and criminal law scholar has been named as the first permanent co-dean of the Rutgers Law School location in Camden.
Read More about Rutgers Law School names Michael T. Cahill as co-dean on Camden campusUC Berkeley Law selects Melissa Murray as Interim Dean
KRON (SAN FRANCISCO) – The university on Tuesday named an interim dean, law professor Melissa Murray who graduated from Yale Law School and joined the Berkeley faculty in 2006.
Read More about UC Berkeley Law selects Melissa Murray as Interim DeanSouthern University Law Center names John K. Pierre as new chancellor
THE ADVOCATE – The newest chancellor of the Southern University Law Center is John K. Pierre, a vice chancellor of the school who has been serving as the interim chancellor in recent months.
Read More about Southern University Law Center names John K. Pierre as new chancellorMississippi College Law Dean Wendy B. Scott to serve on the AALS Planning Committee for 2017
CLARION LEDGER – Wendy B. Scott, dean, has been invited by president of the Association of American Law Schools to serve on the five-member Planning Committee for the 2017 day-long program for deans at the 2017 annual meeting in San Francisco.
Read More about Mississippi College Law Dean Wendy B. Scott to serve on the AALS Planning Committee for 2017Indiana Maurer Law and Notre Dame Law predict growth in class size as legal market turns upward
NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES – Notre Dame and Indiana University law schools also have seen their class sizes shrink, but some believe the student shortage has bottomed out and job outlooks are promising.
Read More about Indiana Maurer Law and Notre Dame Law predict growth in class size as legal market turns upwardHarvard Law students take online business fundamentals program through business school
HARVARD LAW TODAY – HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe)—the online business fundamentals program launched by Harvard Business School in June 2014 to provide a strong foundation in the language and tools of business—will be offered to entering students at Harvard Law School for the second consecutive year.
Read More about Harvard Law students take online business fundamentals program through business schoolSeattle Law international human rights clinic aids in release of activist from Mexican prison
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER – Salgado’s release came in large part through more than two years of efforts by Seattle University School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, which argued her cause before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Read More about Seattle Law international human rights clinic aids in release of activist from Mexican prisonVice President Biden addresses Supreme Court nomination controversy during talk at Georgetown Law
THE HOYA – Vice President Joe Biden addressed President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chief Judge Of the United States Court of Appeals Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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