Duke Law Tech Lab supports new legal technology companies focused on access to justice

August 12, 2021

DUKE LAW — Four early-stage legal technology companies with a core mission of expanding access to legal services make up the new cohort of Duke Law Tech Lab’s summer 2021 pre-accelerator program.

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Fordham Law launches Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program

August 12, 2021

FORDHAM LAW NEWSFordham Law School announced today that its Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program launched this week when program participants were welcomed to campus. The program aims to expand opportunities for first-year law students from historically underrepresented backgrounds including underrepresented racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, LGBTQ, and first-generation college backgrounds.

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Rutgers Law hosts two-week pre-law academy for high school students

August 12, 2021

RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — While some high school students have spent their summer by the pool, a group of ambitious would-be law students learned the virtues of a career in law through a new Rutgers summer academy offered by the Office of Summer and Winter Sessions at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Rutgers Law School led the two-week, Pre-College…

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Southern Illinois University Law Veterans Assistance Clinic receives grant from Illinois Equal Justice Foundation

August 12, 2021

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY — Military veterans in the region needing help with Veterans Affairs benefit appeals and discharge upgrades can continue to look to Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Law for assistance.

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University of St. Thomas Law Mentor Externship Program helps graduates start legal careers

August 12, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — These all come together in the school’s award-winning Mentor Externship Program, through which each St. Thomas Law student is paired with a lawyer or judge each year of law school to help them gain work experience, develop professional connections and navigate the legal field. “What we aim to do in the program…

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Willamette Law partners with Western Oregon University on direct admission program

August 11, 2021

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — This program admits WOU undergraduate students and alumni who meet certain academic credentials to Willamette Law and gives each student a $10,000 scholarship, renewable each year the student is enrolled at Willamette Law and remains in good standing.

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Roger Williams Law to require a course focused on the impact of race on the development of American law

July 30, 2021

REUTERS — Roger Williams University School of Law recently joined a handful of law schools across the country that now require a course focused on the impact of race in the development of American law.

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University of Akron Law offers free public course on law and inequality in the US

July 30, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Back by popular demand, The University of Akron School of Law will offer a free 12-week, live online course this fall designed as an introduction to the impact of the law on equality in America. When first offered in the fall of 2020, the course attracted more than 5,000 registrants from across…

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UC Irvine Law launches Fair Elections and Free Speech Center

July 30, 2021

UCI NEWS — he University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce the launch of the new Fair Elections and Free Speech Center.

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Case Western Reserve Law launches master degree and certificate program in health care compliance

July 30, 2021

NEWSWISE — That’s part of why the Case Western Reserve University School of Law this fall is launching a new master’s degree and certificate program in health care compliance and risk management.

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