Brooklyn Law professor Heidi K. Brown shares advice on helping students and lawyers flourish
ABA JOURNAL — Can we lawyers step into the eudaimonic turn? What if, instead of thoroughly exhausting ourselves unearthing or stirring up problems around every corner, we also invested (and replenished) energy in fostering good?
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ABA JOURNAL — Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law has been found to be out of compliance with an ABA accreditation standard focused on program resources. The notice, dated Aug. 31, states that the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar found “significant noncompliance” with Standards 202(a), (c) and (d).
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ABA JOURNAL — And now, with the perspective gained from time and experience in my new role on the corporate legal team at a global media company, I ask: Are we willing to keep making progress only at the edges, moving the needle so faintly year after year without addressing what is really going on? When…
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ABOVE THE LAW — The short answer is that St. Mary’s online program has been approved by the [ABA’s] Council. — a representative of the American Bar Association, commenting on the fact that St. Mary’s University School of Law received approval from the ABA on variance related to its online law degree program.
Read More about Nation’s First Online-Only Law School Program Gets ABA ApprovalABA Virtual Office Hours series connects law students with financial planning tools during and after law school
ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — Join Derek Brainard, MBA, AFC®, CRPC® from nonprofit AccessLex Institute as he outlines how to create a financial plan that works for you during law school.
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ILLINOIS NEWS LIVE — According to the American Bar Association (ABA), a student that wants to learn and practice law should have critical thinking, good communication skills, should be a persuasive debater, and also be a good analytical and problem-solving person. According to Mike Weston, an essay writer at custom writing service, he student should also…
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US NEWS & WORLD REPORT — If you want a license to practice law in the U.S., you typically need to pass the bar exam of whatever jurisdiction you plan to work in. However, there are some exceptions. In rare cases, a jurisdiction may grant diploma privilege to alumni of a particular law school, so…
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ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — All of this is to say that these feelings of inadequacy are not only valid but they also won’t instantly dissipate the minute you graduate. Like many mental health struggles we face, impostor syndrome is here to stay. With that, I encourage you to use your internship to learn how to…
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ABA JOURNAL — Maureen Onyelobi has taken the LSAT three times, including twice while in prison, report CBS Minnesota and SW News Media. She studied with the help of the Prison-to-Law Pipeline program, which aims to help Minnesota prisoners obtain ABA-accredited paralegal and law degrees through remote education.
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The ABA has proposed mandating diversity training and affirmative action in all of its accredited law schools — and this move is poised to insert the organization’s subjective public policy views on controversial issues directly into the curriculum of accredited law schools.
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