Delaware State University receives grant to create mentorship program for students applying to law school
DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA — Delaware State University’s Law Studies program receives a donation to help students pay for the Law School Admissions Test. As part of its 90th anniversary, Wilmington’s Morris James law firm donated $10,000 to DSU to help defray costs of students taking and preparing for the LSAT, and establish a mentoring program. The current cost…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School welcomed a robust incoming class and celebrated a return to full in-person learning. Though masked, the excitement could be seen in the eyes of all the incoming 1L and non-JD students alike. Of the 218 incoming students, 196 are entering the J.D. program in the Fall and 22 began in…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL –A recent real estate transaction was a win-win-win for Albany Law School, the Arbor Hill Development Corporation (AHDC), and the Albany County Land Bank.Students, working in the Community Economic Development Clinic within The Justice Center at Albany Law School, represented the AHDC as the non-profit purchased 16 vacant properties from the land…
Read More about Albany Law Community Economic Development Clinic students assist local low-income housing organization in property purchaseUniversity of Arkansas Law student Tyler Mlaker wins national law writing competition
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Third-year law student Tyler Mlaker has won first prize in the annual Law Student Writing Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Forum on Construction Law. Mlakar will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a one-year membership in the Forum and travel expenses and registration to attend the 2021 Forum Fall Meeting in…
Read More about University of Arkansas Law student Tyler Mlaker wins national law writing competitionCase Western Reserve Law students advocate to the UN for release of detained Uyghur doctor
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Case Western Reserve University School of Law students Natalie Aguilar and Lucas Allison prepared and submitted a complaint to the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and other UN Special Rapporteurs concerning the unlawful detention of a Chinese Uyghur doctor. They filed the complaint on behalf…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law students advocate to the UN for release of detained Uyghur doctorCase Western Reserve Law students file amicus brief to US Supreme Court on CIA torture program details
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Case Western Reserve University School of Law students Reece Disney and Jessica Foo helped coordinate and draft amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs to the United States Supreme Court in a civil case involving efforts to obtain information about the brutal interrogation tactics the United States employed on one…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law students file amicus brief to US Supreme Court on CIA torture program detailsCornell Law students reflect on their experience starting law school
CORNELL CHRONICLE — Though the COVID-19 pandemic — combined with a boom in application numbers — made this year’s cycle an unusually competitive one for students applying to medical and law schools, Cornell students successfully navigated the process and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — A key component of Fordham Law’s online Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) in Corporate Compliance is the in-person Compliance Colloquium, which brings students together for an intensive three-day program that mixes practical group exercises with networking sessions and presentations from compliance thought leaders. It is the only in-person component of the…
Read More about Fordham Law online MSL Corporate Compliance program features in-person colloquium to build communityNew Fordham Law students participate in oath of professionalism ceremony
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On August 23, 434 first-year J.D. students joined together to take their oath of professionalism as a part of their orientation programming. The oath of professionalism is a pledge taken by students to act ethically and with integrity in law school and in their legal careers. Every year, as part of their orientation…
Read More about New Fordham Law students participate in oath of professionalism ceremonyUniversity of Kansas Law partners with Wichita State University on accelerated 3+3 bachelor’s/JD program
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — Students at Wichita State University will have an opportunity to accelerate their legal education and save a year of tuition, thanks to an expansion of the Legal Education Accelerated Degree (LEAD) program at the University of Kansas.
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