Marquette Law Dean Joseph Kearney supports plan for a 16-year term for state Supreme Court justices
WISCONSIN BAR NEWS – Marquette University Law School Dean Joseph Kearney announced his personal support for a proposal to change the term of office for Wisconsin Supreme Court justices to a single, 16-year term, a plan developed and approved by the State Bar of Wisconsin.
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HARTFORD BUSINESS – There’s a downsizing trend in the law sector these days, with lawyers taking advantage of technology and a teamwork approach to practice in smaller firms or open their own shop.
Read More about Small firms adjust and flourish in Connecticut’s changing legal marketOpinion: Legal industry needs disruption, not innovation
THE LAWYER – “All the talk in legal circles of late is of ‘innovation’. Law firms should innovate, create, adapt and develop, we hear. Happily for lawyers everywhere, recent research in the US casts serious doubt on innovation as a long-term play.”
Read More about Opinion: Legal industry needs disruption, not innovationWashington state welcomes nation’s first limited license legal technicians
ABA JOURNAL – Washington is the first state with a program to allow limited license legal technicians to help litigants prepare legal documents and provide advice on legal procedures without a lawyer’s supervision.
Read More about Washington state welcomes nation’s first limited license legal techniciansJennifer Mnookin selected as new dean for UCLA School of Law
DAILY BRUIN – The UCLA School of Law announced Thursday that law professor Jennifer L. Mnookin will serve as the law school’s next dean beginning Aug. 1.
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HOUSTON CHRONICLE – The University of Houston Law Center’s Texas Consumer Complaint Center is chiming in with some legal assistance for flood victims just as the Houston Bar Association legal line finishes up.
Read More about Houston Law to help Texas flood victimsWisconsin Republicans seek major changes to public college shared governance, curriculum and tenure
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights for most government workers, has turned his sights to a different element of the public sector: state universities.
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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD – Kansas University clinical associate professor Katie Cronin taught KU’s first Human Trafficking Law and Policy class this spring, where law students went to work on real cases.
Read More about Kansas Law class on human trafficking aids victimsNew D.C. Bar president seeks to strengthen ties to local law schools
BISNOW – Annamaria Steward, associate dean of students at UDC, was recently elected as the D.C. Bar’s president-elect, and will begin her tenure in June 2016.
Read More about New D.C. Bar president seeks to strengthen ties to local law schoolsOpinion: Why America needs affordable legal counsel
THE WASHINGTON POST – “Rather than a shortage of people who need lawyers, what we are seeing is a disgraceful failure of our legal system to meet the serious legal needs of most Americans, who are increasingly priced out of the market for legal services.”
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