First-year UVA Law students take part in day of public service

August 29, 2016

WVIR (NBC CHARLOTTESVILLE) – Dozens of University of Virginia law students spent Sunday sprucing up areas around Charlottesville.

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Hip-hop artist pursues entertainment law at USC Gould Law

August 29, 2016

ABA JOURNAL – A hip-hop artist whose 2015 album Unorthodox made the iTunes hip-hop/rap Top 40 is now a first-year law student at University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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Nova Southeastern University law hosts trial advocacy seminar

August 29, 2016

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY – At Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law, students recently had the opportunity to be “primed” for their work as litigating attorneys at the second annual Trial Advocacy Summer Institute.

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Indiana McKinney Law launches child advocacy law clinic to train students as court-appointed special advocates

August 22, 2016

INDIANA LAWYER – Students at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will have the opportunity to work with Marion County’s Child Advocates starting this fall when the new Child Advocacy Law Clinic opens.

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Indiana McKinney Law student takes on internship with focus on international human rights law in Brazil

August 19, 2016

INDIANA UNIVERSITY ROBERT H. MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW – IU McKinney 2L Connor Berkebile completed an internship during Summer 2016 at WimBelemDon in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil through the Program in International Human Rights Law.

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Missouri Law clinics assist veterans with legal issues surrounding entrepreneurship

August 15, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW – The law school’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic and Veterans Clinic recently collaborated with the MU Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business to help military veterans with legal aspects of starting businesses.

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Northwestern Pritzker Law’s Restorative Justice Practicum allows students to problem-solve in community organizations

August 15, 2016

NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW – The practicum—where students work twelve hours per week at organizations in the community and meet weekly as a group for a corresponding seminar—is an expansion of the Center on Negotiation and Mediation’s offerings related to restorative justice.

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Akron Law hopes to bridge gap between law students and the practicing community

August 15, 2016

AKRON LEGAL NEWS – Educators at The University of Akron School of Law want to provide students with mentors and other relevant information to help them secure legal positions.

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University of St. Thomas Law helps six inmates gain clemency

August 15, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS – Through their work as clinical student attorneys in the Federal Commutations Clinic at St. Thomas Law, alumni Marc Spooner ’12, Ashley Bennett ‘13, Derek Hansen ‘13, Eric Hylok ’15 and Jamie Waldon ‘15 directly impacted the lives of three men whose sentences were commuted.

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University of Alabama Law student wins pro bono award from state bar association

August 15, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW – Carly Calhoun won the Alabama State Bar’s Pro Bono Law Student Award.

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