University of Arkansas Law celebrates National Pro Bono Week
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Students in the University of Arkansas School of Law are participating in a nationwide celebration of pro bono during Pro Bono Week, Oct. 20-26. Law students who have performed the most pro bono hours are invited to “Dessert with the Dean,” to celebrate their accomplishment with School of Law Dean Margaret Sova…
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BC LAW MAGAZINE — BC Law’s Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor Patricia McCoy, a rare US legal academic specializing in both insurance law and federal banking regulation, has been selected by the Federal Reserve Board as an inaugural member of its Insurance Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC). McCoy and the other 20 members of the IPAC will advise the Federal Reserve Board on…
Read More about Boston College Law professor Patricia McCoy selected to Federal Reserve committeeCase Western Reserve Law clinic aids community organization in applying for non-profit status
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — With help from the CWRU Community Development Clinic, she launched a nonprofit business while playing a key role in revitalizing a Cleveland neighborhood. Today, with help from the CWRU Law Community Development Clinic, McGee and Fegen-Herdman are ready to move out from under the wing of the SDSDC and become their…
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BERKELEY LAW — Monday afternoon, before a packed house of Berkeley Law students, faculty, and staff at Zellerbach Hall, Ginsburg described meeting Kay at a 1971 conference on women in the law. “The rest of that decade, Herma was my best and closest working colleague,” she said. The justice received spirited standing ovations before and after the…
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LANSING STATE JOURNAL — For years, Dewitt resident Rick Holey had considered attempting to expunge his decades-only drug possession conviction, a felony. That changed this week when he visited a free clinic at the Michigan Hall of Justice downtown. Attorneys and law students volunteered their time Tuesday to guide Holey and more than 100 others through the…
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THE ATLANTIC JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION — The Supreme Court granted special permission for University of Georgia School of Law students to represent Williams during oral arguments on Tuesday morning. The students are members of UGA’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, set up for people who find themselves with cases in the court system’s upper levels but who don’t have the…
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Pro bono attorneys play a critical role in providing access to justice to people who can’t afford legal representation. Among the many ways Harvard Law School commits to this effort is through its 35 clinics, 11 student practice organizations, and more than 100 clinical faculty and teachers. Harvard Law School J.D. students…
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Maine School of Law was recently awarded a three-year grant from the Betterment Fund to continue the Rural Lawyer Project. This grant enables Maine Law to build upon a successful pilot program that was designed to solve a growing crisis in Maine’s rural communities: access to…
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini and New York Law School (NYLS) today announced that the District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Bureau has been awarded more than $849,000 in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to aid in the investigation of wrongful conviction claims, including a $275,000 partnership…
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — The fields of comedy and the law don’t often have opportunity to converge – or, as Matthew Pangle, L’20, puts it, “usually, when someone steals a joke, you don’t go to court over it.” The exception to that rule is the subject of Pangle’s recent scholarship on the intersection of copyright law…
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