Law school waitlist process explained
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – Here are some answers to some of the questions we’re most frequently asked about the waitlist process.
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THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE – Michael Olivas, a UH law professor who also heads the school’s Institute of Higher Education Law and Governance, will temporarily take the top spot at the downtown campus, the university announced.
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THE WASHINGTON POST – America’s lawyers have a serious drinking problem, according to a new report from the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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THE ADVOCATE – The next leader of LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center will be Thomas Galligan Jr., who serves as president of Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire and will be returning to Baton Rouge after having taught at the campus 18 years ago.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH – A new joint effort will serve as an incubator for innovation in human rights research, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law (CHRGJ), Human Rights Watch, and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute (HRI) announced.
Read More about Columbia and NYU team up on human rights law initiativeTexas Tech Law students represent indigent clients in rural counties
LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL – Texas Tech School of Law’s Caprock Regional Public Defender Office sends third-year students to try or plea-bargain criminal cases in a dozen or so rural counties. Clients have been ruled indigent, or lacking funds to pay for a private attorney.
Read More about Texas Tech Law students represent indigent clients in rural countiesDomestic violence clinic at Valparaiso Law offers hope to victims and their families
NWITIMES.COM – The Domestic Violence Clinic is a licensed law firm that enables students to gain experience while providing free or low-cost legal services to clients. Students assist victims of domestic violence who are seeking temporary or permanent restraining orders.
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AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN – Hines and Gilman are among the chief architects of a network of lawyers, legal assistants, students and volunteers who work on immigrants’ cases for free at the two family detention centers that opened in the summer of 2014 in South Texas.
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GW TODAY – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito visited a packed Lisner Auditorium Thursday to judge the final round of GW Law’s Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition.
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PHILLY.COM – John Y. Gotanda, dean of the Villanova Law School, will leave that job in June to take over as president of Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu.
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