Tulane Law hosts panel as platform to share school’s role in Katrina recovery
NEWS FROM TULANE – Tulane Law School faculty members as well as first-year law students scrambled to cram an entire year’s worth of coursework into one extended semester when the law school reopened in January 2006 after Hurricane Katrina. Yet, they also found time to help other New Orleanians.
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NAPLES HERALD – Ave Maria School of Law welcomed their newest class of students last week. The Class of 2018 is the school’s 16th entering class and the seventh since relocating to Naples in 2009. As part of their annual volunteer commitment these 120 new students spent Saturday volunteering at different locations in Naples.
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THE PRO BONO PROJECT – “[I]t’s not every day that a law professor chooses to use her sabbatical leave to volunteer in the recovery of New Orleans. But after taking a group of my law students from Washington, DC to work at The Pro Bono Project and other volunteer agencies in March 2007, I knew…
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THE WASHINGTON POST – A new survey by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service on the challenges to managing talent in government shows that the numbers of employees under age 30 are at their lowest levels since 2005.
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PENN STATE NEWS – First year students are introduced to the culture of service at Dickinson Law early on, and this year’s class is no different. The students making up the Class of 2018 are performing volunteer work as part of the school’s day of service.
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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH NEWS SERVICES – The University of Pittsburgh School of Law is preparing to launch a new incubator program that will provide support to recent graduates that are developing solo or small-firm practices to provide legal services to underserved communities.
Read More about Pitt Law to launch incubator program for new graduatesFormer UCLA Law Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran leads research initiative on growing Latino population
BLOOMBERG BNA – The American Bar Foundation announced Tuesday that UCLA Law School Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran will chair its new research initiative on the laws and policies needed to serve the growing Latino population in the U.S.
Read More about Former UCLA Law Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran leads research initiative on growing Latino populationLack of diversity in prosecutors a contributing factor to high minority incarceration rate
THE DAILY BEAST – Since prosecutors convict 86 percent of the prison population, this means a nearly all-white cadre of attorneys is putting a disproportionately black cohort of defendants in jail. In fact, the racial divide among prosecutors correlates with how they unequally treat black and white defendants.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – In Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, where Shreveport is the parish seat, a study to be released Monday has found that prosecutors used peremptory challenges three times as often to strike black potential jurors as others during the last decade.
Read More about Study: Prosecutors in Louisiana parish three times as likely to exclude potential African-American jurorsGeorge Mason Law Veterans Clinic Director Laurie Forbes Neff named to the Virginia Board of Veterans Services
INSIDE NOVA – Gov. McAuliffe has named George Mason University School of Law professor Laurie Forbes Neff to the Virginia Board of Veterans Services.
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