BYU Law hosts national storytelling competition for law students
BYU LAW — I invite your students to participate again with ours in LawStories on the Mainstage, a national storytelling event hosted by BYU Law. We had excellent participation last year with law students from 29 schools submitting stories and 9 of the 10 finalists representing different law schools.
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UCLA LAW — Three students in UCLA School of Law’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic won a round of applause from movie industry insiders in a packed theater at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, where they attended the premiere of The Cost of Silence, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW — This year’s Citizenship and Equality Colloquium, organized by the University of Colorado Law School’s Immigration and Citizenship Law Program, brings together prominent scholars across immigration law whose research focuses on a range of topics pertaining to citizenship.
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW — The Tax Clinic at the UConn School of Law is seeing an increasing number of clients who earned income as contractors and ended up facing tax penalties because they didn’t understand and follow the rules, according to Professor Lisa Perkins, the clinic’s director. These taxpayers don’t always know that…
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DAYTON DAILY NEWS — Dayton Municipal Court has opened a new self-help center to try to help citizens negotiate the judicial system, especially those who represent themselves. The new center provides resources and in-person assistance from University of Dayton School of Law students.
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UNIVERSITY OD DETROIT MERCY LAW — On Thursday, Jan. 30, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will usher in Black History Month with an evening that acknowledges and celebrates the School’s past, present and future. In partnership with the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), the School will also introduce the Henry H. Tarrant Award for Black…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Ethan Cramer Gibbs, Kevin Darby, and Pamela White, all Fordham first-year law students from the Sports Law Forum, bested 40 other law schools at Tulane Law School’s International Baseball Arbitration Competition. The team, coached by Nathaniel Liebes, Rob Pannullo, and Nick Reade, took on Pace Law School in the championship round and sealed Fordham…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — As part of Fordham Law’s commitment to making professionalism a core part of legal education, the Law School recently held its first ever spring orientation for first-year law students returning from their winter break. In preparation, every student completed a set of online modules developed by Open Mind, an organization dedicated to fostering…
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The School of Law’s innovative mentorship program has connected more than 700 law students with four-person support teams since its start in 2016. The mentor teams consist of upper-level law students, faculty members, career development officers and alumni/alumnae/professional mentors. The program is quite flexible as mentors and mentees are encouraged…
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FRANCIS KING CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW — Fired up by the idea of advocating for others, Maryland Carey Law student Maya Foster ’22 has wanted to be a lawyer as long as she can remember. Reading Bryan Stevenson’s best-selling novel Just Mercy. Before Foster knew it, Associate Dean Russell McClain had arranged the free event…
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