Rutgers Law fellowship program provides experience for new lawyers
RUTGERS TODAY – The school launched Rutgers Law Associates last year in Newark with six new members of the bar receiving $30,000 stipends as one-year, post-doctoral fellows. These newly minted lawyers represent low- and moderate-income clients in various litigation and other matters while learning courtroom procedure, business development and professional responsibility.
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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN – Earlier this summer, 27 people converged on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law to meet with attorneys at Arkansas’s first transgender legal clinic.
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THE LIMA NEWS – “The ONU Law Clinic helps ensure that tomorrow’s lawyers understand that in the United States, justice is not the privilege of a wealthy few, but a right that all of us are entitled to.”
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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD – Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach squared off Thursday in a debate with a Kansas University law professor over the pros and cons of restrictive voter identification laws.
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THE DAILY FREE PRESS – A unique collaboration between Boston University School of Law and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will bring MIT and BU student entrepreneurs and innovators together with future lawyers from BU to address the legal and regulatory compliance issues associated with their academic and extracurricular pursuits and their efforts to turn ideas…
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THE NEWS & OBSERVER – Some 18- to 21-year-olds caught with a small amount of marijuana, shoplifting or other misdemeanor offenses could get a second chance under a new Durham program announced.
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CAMPBELL LAW OBSERVER – “When applying to law school, I knew that I wanted to help children, but I did not know how that would manifest itself in my legal career. However, after this summer, I have a much clearer path on how to achieve that.”
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL NEWS – The Law School’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic recently helped a Salvadoran woman gain asylum in the United States.
Read More about Minnesota Law human rights clinic helps Salvadoran domestic abuse victim gain asylumVermont Law clinic files amicus curiae brief on behalf of pro-GMO labeling groups
VTDIGGER – Four Vermont groups filed an amicus curiae brief with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Vermont’s genetically engineered (GE) food labeling law. The Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) at Vermont Law School, which represents the Vermont groups, prepared and filed the brief.
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ARMONK DAILY VOICE – Pace University law professors Jay Carlisle and Vanessa Merton were named ‘Lawyers Who Lead by Example’ by the New York Law Journal in their annual awards listing earlier this month.
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