Indiana University Maurer Law partners with Indiana Supreme Court for rural justice initiative
INDIANA UNIVERSITY NEWS — he Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the Indiana Supreme Court have announced a pilot program in which up to five first-year students committed to public service will work with judges throughout the state.
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UH LAW CENTER — he team from the University of Georgia School of Law out-argued the nation’s best student advocates to claim the winner’s trophy in the 11th annual Hunton Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship hosted recently by the Blakely Advocacy Institute of the University of Houston Law Center.
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UGA TODAY — The University of Georgia School of Law announces the Butler Commitment, a new initiative that will guarantee financial aid to 100 percent of veterans who matriculate in the fall 2019 entering class.
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LAW.COM — The Cornell Law Review made a splash this weekend when it elected an all-female executive board—believed to be a first for a flagship journal at a top law school. Like most other areas of the legal profession, men have long dominated law review participation and the leadership of those journals
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LAW.COM — It’s my second semester at Michigan Law, and, yes, I’ve learned a few things. I’ve come to realize that a tough cold call will not kill me. The length of reading assignments is no longer surprising, and I know what a law school final exam looks like. Even better, I have blissful months ahead before I…
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ABOVE THE LAW — Women are breaking barriers in the legal profession each and every day, and law school enrollment is no different. In 2016, women outnumbered men in law school classrooms for the first time on record.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in Wayne State Law’s Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic immersed themselves in hands-on client representation. 3L student Samantha Topolewski reflects on how she spent the majority of her clinic time during the last semester representing an Iraqi national who was detained last summer.
Read More about Wayne State Law students gain real-world experience in immigration clinicWayne State Law student plays a major role in creating charity for Hurricane Harvey victims
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Wayne State 2L student Charles Hayden IV played a major role in creating a charity effort to help victims in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Working as a legal extern at TriMas in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Hayden raised more than $30,000 to help employees of Houston-based Lamons, a…
Read More about Wayne State Law student plays a major role in creating charity for Hurricane Harvey victimsWashington and Lee’s Black Lung Clinic wins case in Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
THE COLUMNS — Washington & Lee Law student Luisa Hernandez ’18 argued a case in March before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In late May, the Court ruled in favor of her client. W&L’s Black Lung Clinic represents coal miners diagnosed with pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease, in their…
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THE COLUMNS — Washington & Lee undergraduate student Balen Essak ’20 interviews Maisie Osteen ’14L about her experiences with the Shepherd Program and as an assistant public defender. This interview is part of a series, “Living the Shepherd Dream,” in which current students in the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human…
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