Widener Commonwealth students learn about trial proceedings in new trial advocacy program
WIDENER UNIVERSITY COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF LAW – The Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP) at Widener Commonwealth Law School is a seven-day summer program that provides students with the chance to learn about trial proceedings by participating in a mock trial as a prosecuting or defending attorney.
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Identity Literacy and Diversity Leadership is a new one-credit, pilot, weekend course at the Washington University School of Law that is designed to give law students a deeper understanding of how individuals and communities define themselves in terms of race, class and gender.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – The Appellate Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law went undefeated in the United States Court of Appeals in the Fourth Circuit, winning all five cases there including a case that corrected an abuse of discretion in sentencing.
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VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL – Law students Jacquielynn Wolff and Tamir Tommalieh of the Immigration Clinic at Valparaiso University Law School successfully represented a Tanzanian woman to win asylum in the United States. The client was persecuted for being a lesbian in her country.
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VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL – Four students in Vanderbilt’s Appellate Litigation Clinic won an appeal in Luis v. Awareness Technology, a case addressing Internet privacy rights, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW – The University of Utah College of Law alumnus Kimball Parker created CO/COUNSEL, a new Wikipedia-like website designed to help the general public more easily find legal information, from his experiences as a trial lawyer.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW – The University of Utah College of Law alumni shared stories of their legal careers with a group of law students who are part of a newly launched pilot program aimed at connecting aspiring attorneys with mentors.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW – President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of two clients, Bernard Gibson, 66, and Teresa Griffin, 51, represented by students in the University of Minnesota School of Law’s Clemency Project this past summer.
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MCGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC – Students in the McGeorge School of Law’s Legislative & Public Policy Clinic successfully advanced a new animal welfare law in the California Legislature. Four other bills written and lobbied by the McGeorge clinic are on the path to becoming law.
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MCGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC – The McGeorge School of Law hosted its eighth year of the Inter-American Summer Program in Antigua, Guatemala. It is designed to provide students a bilingual and intercultural learning experience, offering substantive law classes about Latin America taught in Spanish.
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