University of Houston Law student Courtney Crews describes her experience in civil litigation
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — With the variety of paths that a legal career offers, second-year University of Houston Law Center student Courtney Crews has taken advantage of several opportunities to bolster her versatility during on-campus interviews hosted by the Career Development Office. She has already interned with a federal magistrate judge and clerked with…
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OBSERVER — Melissa Aziz, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’17, is now in her third and final year at Fordham University School of Law. In May, she will depart Fordham, the place she has called her second home for the past seven years. Now, she hopes to help students looking to follow in her footsteps. The…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes when they ask for a grade change or challenge a grade, the researchers report. The researchers based their analysis on “a unique administrative dataset” from an unnamed large four-year public university that included final grade records and any grade…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School and the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) are celebrating Black History Month with a series of events throughout February.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Jan. 31, 2020, American University Washington College of Law welcomed Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard and president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, to campus for “Rise Against Hate” to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The event commemorated landmark legislation…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Wednesday, Feb. 5, American University Washington College of Law’s Tech, Law, and Security Program (TLS). The day-long event brought together members of law enforcement and the cybersecurity community, industry experts, advocacy groups, and various branches of government to examine the current challenges to preventing, investigating, and prosecuting cyber and cyber-related…
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — It doesn’t take a cape and a mask to be a hero – it takes a big heart and a lot of love. This was the message Baylor Law Professor Bridget Fuselier had for members of the 20 foster families who adopted children into their forever homes during Baylor Law’s Adoption Day in November. The annual…
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YAHOO FINANCE — BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation in the legal field, today announced that it will hold its fifth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference Feb. 6-7, convening prominent federal and state judges, as well as legal and linguistics scholars committed to furthering the corpus linguistics discipline. The symposium is part of BYU…
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UCLA LAW — UCLA School of Law students Christopher Chiang ’20 and Graham Fenton ’20 won the top two prizes in the Recording Academy’s 22nd Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition on Jan. 24 and were honored at a number of red-carpet events during Grammy Awards week.
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DUKE LAW — Opening a remarkable conference she described as a “love letter” to future women lawyers, Duke Law School Dean Kerry Abrams praised the editors-in-chief of 16 top law journals who had initiated the event and charged them with carrying on work to advance women’s rights that was begun 100 years ago. The daylong event marked a singular…
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