Penn State Law offers career development program for new students during orientation
PENN STATE LAW — Law school orientation is a rite of passage for first-year law students. The event strives to create a welcoming environment where students connect and establish a network with faculty, staff, students and other members of the Penn State community.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — Rising 2L Justin Hart traded the mountains of Salt Lake City for the sunny beaches of Honolulu, Hawaii, this summer. He began his field placement at Hawaiian Electric, which provides electricity to residents on the five Hawaiian islands, in June.
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UC LAW SAN FRANCISCO — From environmental protection to workers’ rights, UC Law San Francisco students spent thousands of hours offering their talents and expertise to support multiple causes and clients over the last year. Through clinics, externships, and pro bono work, the law students provided more than 60,000 unpaid hours of legal work, amounting…
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CAMPBELL LAW — Two law school professors have published an article ranking Campbell Law School among the top schools that consistently over perform on the bar exam. Professor Christopher J. Ryan of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in Louisville, Kentucky, and Professor Derek T. Muller of the University of Notre Dame School of…
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FORDHAM LAW — Sarah Seo has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Policy Fellowship. Seo will be joining the Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s New York office this fall for a two-year period to work on issues related to education and economic justice.
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FORDHAM LAW — On May 30 and 31, 20 students affiliated with the Law School’s Increasing Diversity in Education and the Law (IDEAL) program and Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) Scholars program traveled to Washington, D.C., as part of the “Law in Practice” portion of the IDEAL program. The two-day trip was…
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FORDHAM LAW — Shanice Scantlebury, Yannick Twumasi, and Cristian Vega have been named the 2023 recipients of the Hon. Deborah A. Batts Scholarship.
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FORDHAM LAW — The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded fellowships to Ben McDonald and Anushka Sarkar. The application process is highly competitive, and the award is a tribute to their outstanding qualifications.
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FORDHAM LAW — The New York Times covered the work being done by Fordham Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic students, led by Professor Cheryl Bader, to bring mitigation videos to marginalized clients. A fairly recent defense effort, mitigation videos include interviews with the defendant, their family and friends, as well as social workers and psychologists that…
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LAW — Gordon Wayne says he will walk from Virginia to Athens starting next week, raising money and awareness in the fight against homelessness: it’s the same thing he did three years ago, walking from Virginia to Boston. Wayne, who had been homeless, graduated from Boston College in May and will be…
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