AALS highlights viewpoint diversity at Annual Meeting, countering blog posts
BLOOMBERG BNA – According to Areen, the conference’s speaker lineup has been developing since this summer, and will continue to expand.
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST – Three years ago, it opened its doors with about 150 students in one of the city’s bleakest neighborhoods. Its mission: to attract more minorities to the legal profession and give them the tools to build better lives.
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HUFFINGTON POST – A growing body of research shows that public interest lawyers also provide significant economic benefits that help the American economy. But public interest lawyers need help too.
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TODAY’S GENERAL COUNSEL – The “Alternative Business Structures” model for law firms, which has been allowed in the UK since 2011, has triggered major changes to the UK legal marketplace and will have repercussions internationally.
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OC WEEKLY – “As if a mantra, Shin repeatedly drew in his mind the picture he’d paint of his client, a 59-year-old Korean immigrant the U.S. government wanted to deport. He also mapped out the various rebuttals he expected the judge would throw back.”
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HAMLINE UNIVERSITY – The Accreditation Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) has notified Hamline University that it is recommending the ABA Council give its acquiescence to the combination of Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law.
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THE HOYA – Georgetown University Law Center, the American Constitution Society and the Campaign Legal Center are establishing a Voting Rights Institute to train both students and attorneys at GULC.
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NWI.COM – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently took action against the nation’s two largest debt buyers and collectors for using deceptive tactics to collect bad debts. The Law Clinic at Valparaiso University has been fighting the same battle locally, representing more than 100 defendants in Porter County and resulting in dismissals of more than $250,000…
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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN – The Center for Practice Engagement and Innovation will design curriculum and program enhancements to prepare current law school students for the legal industry, CPEI’s director James Lupo said.
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WEST VIRGINIA RECORD – Kirk Auvil and Phillip Wachowiak, both third-year students, represented Rufino Antonio Estrada-Martinez before the court Sept. 24, against Loretta Lynch, attorney general of the United States. Estrada-Martinez is a client of the WVU Immigration Law Clinic.
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