Roger Williams Law to freeze tuition rate for third straight year

November 25, 2015

WJAR (RHODE ISLAND) – Roger Williams University says it will continue to freeze its tuition. There’s a tuition freeze and tuition rate guarantee at its law school too.

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stresses the importance of religious law schools during speech to St. Thomas Law students

November 25, 2015

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS NEWSROOM – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia emphasized the importance of the Catholic law school environment during a visit to the University of St. Thomas School of Law on Oct. 20, 2015.

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Seattle Law students protest local bar association’s support for new juvenile detention center

November 25, 2015

THE STRANGER – A group of local law students is upset with the King County Bar Association (KCBA) for supporting the construction of a new King County juvenile jail, and one of those students recently resigned in protest from his student liaison position with the KCBA over the issue.

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Podcast: Southern Methodist Law professor discusses interviewing nine Supreme Court justices

November 25, 2015

BLOOMBERG BNA – “[M]y guest is Professor Bryan Garner, Founder and President of LawProse and Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University School of Law, who has personally interviewed 9 Supreme Court Justices on writing and oral advocacy: Justices Elena Kagan, John Roberts, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…

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Valparaiso Law sports law clinic celebrates 10 years of helping amateur athletes

November 25, 2015

NWI.COM – Established 10 years ago, the Valparaiso University sports law clinic is the only one of its kind.

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Duke Law environmental law clinic helps young client in climate change case against North Carolina

November 25, 2015

THE NEWS & OBSERVER – With the help of lawyers from Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based climate change non-profit, attorneys from Duke University’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Gayle Tuch, a Forsyth County lawyer, Hallie seeks to persuade state leaders to adopt rules that would reduce greenhouse gasses.

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Indiana-McKinney Law student group focuses on criminal re-entry issues in state

November 25, 2015

WISH (INDIANAPOLIS) – A group of students that are studying law to become attorneys focused their efforts on helping former inmates back into society on Sunday. The Black Law Student Association at the IU McKinney School of Law held a holiday party and called it a ‘New Beginning Holiday Party’ for recently released inmates and…

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Yale Law professor and clinic win freedom of information appeal in New York state

November 25, 2015

YALE LAW SCHOOL – Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08, with amicus support from the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School, successfully appealed a New York State court ruling prohibiting a record requestor from suing an agency for unreasonable delay when filing a Freedom of Information Request in the state.

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U.S. legal industry adds 700 jobs in October, reaches highest level of employment in 2015

November 18, 2015

BLOOMBERG BNA – Employment in the U.S. legal sector got a little better in October, adding 700 jobs to bring the national workforce to little more than 1.1 million people, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Three new studies point to a changing legal profession

November 18, 2015

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – “Three new studies came across our desk this week showing a mix of good and bad news for the legal industry.”

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