ABA releases law school enrollment information for 2015
ABA JOURNAL – Law school consumer information for the entering class of 2015 is now available on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s website, the section said in a press release.
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BLOOMBERG BNA – The Utah Supreme Court has given approval to a new category of legal professional called “limited paralegal practitioners,” who are authorized to help clients fill out and file documents, but not allowed to appear in court.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – Although increasing college attendance makes a lot of sense, both for individuals and for the nation, the financial hurdle to doing so is higher than ever. What gives? Three forces are at work.
Read More about Opinion: Explaining the cost drivers of higher educationMinnesota Law School Dean David Wippman named president of Hamilton College
STAR TRIBUNE – The University of Minnesota’s Law School dean has been selected as the 20th president of a 203-year-old private college in upstate New York.
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DAILY JOURNAL JACKSON BUREAU – Randy Pierce is leaving his post as a Southern District Supreme Court justice on Feb. 1 to become the first director in more than a year of the Mississippi Judicial College.
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THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT – President Obama nominated four people to serve on United States district courts, including two Oklahomans, one of whom is an assistant dean at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL – Penn Law lecturer Sozi Pedro Tulante has been selected by Mayor-elect Jim Kenney as Philadelphia’s next City Solicitor.
Read More about Penn Law lecturer chosen as Philadelphia City SolicitorSeton Hall student-athlete takes on basketball and law school
THE NEW YORK TIMES – “‘For a while, I had a Plan A and a Plan B: Plan A was N.B.A.; Plan B was law school,’ Anderson said. ‘Somewhere along the lines there I said, Hey, I don’t need to have two plans. They’re both the same plan. It’s to be successful, to make the…
Read More about Seton Hall student-athlete takes on basketball and law schoolSouthern Methodist Dedman Law receives gift to establish chair in corporate, partnership and securities law
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS – Anne R. Bromberg has pledged $2 million to Southern Methodist University to establish the Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in corporate, partnership and securities law in honor of her late husband, who was a national authority in those fields and an esteemed professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law.
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HISPANIC OUTLOOK IN HIGHER EDUCATION MAGAZINE – Professor Royal Gardner, director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy at Stetson University, was invited to speak on behalf of the Ramsar Convention at a meeting of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation in New York.
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