Drexel Law Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic students win asylum and disability benefits cases
DREXEL UNIVERSITY KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in the Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic have scored hard-earned victories on behalf of clients in two cases. 3Ls Adam Bluestein and Sydney Melillo won asylum for a native of Ghana who faced tremendous perils there as a gay man and a Muslim.
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THE DAILY UNIVERSE — BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, founded in 1973, has become one of the nation’s leading law schools, setting a high standard for others. Like its peer institutions nationwide, it competes for the most qualified undergraduates.
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ABOVE THE LAW — As the school year winds down, we get to measure law schools on one of the most interesting power rankings by comparing commencement speakers.
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LAW.COM — Law schools are falling short when it comes to mental health resources for students, according to a new survey. Fewer than a third of the 300 recent law graduates polled by Kaplan Bar Review this spring reported that their law schools did enough to assist students experiencing high levels of academic stress.
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INDIANA LAWYER — Courtship season is in full bloom, but forget loving and cherishing — these “marriages” are about test scores, rankings and scholarships.Law schools are proposing their final offers of admission and waiting to see who accepts, while applicants are trying to decide where to enroll.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The state of Connecticut issued its first guidelines clarifying the rights of pregnant workers and the obligations of their employers in a document that students from the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School helped research and draft.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Five Wayne State University Law School students will gain experience and serve a variety of agencies this summer, thanks to the support of the 2019 Public Interest Law Fellowships.
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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Wake Forest University has chosen Jane Aiken to become the next Dean of the School of Law. Aiken comes to Wake Forest from Georgetown Law, where she has been a professor and administrator since 2007 and currently serves as the Blume Professor of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Virginia School of Law’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic will face the justices Wednesday in a case that could affect criminal defendants facing mandatory minimum prison sentences. The high court granted cert in January in Quarles v. United States.
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE-KNOXVILLE COLLEGE OF LAW — The Law Women student organization at the University of Tennessee College of Law has earned the university’s 2019 Charles R. Burchett Citation for Extraordinary Contributions to Campus Life. The award was presented to the group this week during the annual Chancellor’s Honors Banquet.
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