BYU Law and Utah State Bar help first-responders with estate planning

September 23, 2020

STANDARD-EXAMINER — After a week-long effort from the J. Rueben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and the Utah State Bar Association, more than 130 first responders around the state received help to complete their basic estate planning documents.

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Gift to Case Western Reserve Law to support student scholarships

September 23, 2020

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — Just days after revealing the first gift to a scholarship campaign in recognition of outgoing President Barbara R. Snyder, Case Western Reserve has announced its second: $2.5 million to support law students.

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Cleveland-Marshall Law honors legal educators and lawyers in school’s 2020 Hall of Fame class

September 23, 2020

CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS — Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law announced its 2020 alumni hall of fame honorees. They will be honored at a celebration at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 6, which most likely will be held off-campus or virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of in the law school’s Moot Court Room.

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University of Oklahoma Law praises teaching and academic support after recent bar exam results

September 23, 2020

OU DAILY — The OU College of Law issued a press release on Sept. 11 announcing its students’ “strong pass rate” for the Oklahoma Bar Exam.

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Penn Law associate dean John Hollway named to Prosecutor Wellbeing Task Force

September 23, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice John Hollway C’92, MAPP ’18 has been named to the Prosecutor Wellbeing Task Force of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA).

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Penn Law students share experiences in school’s Transnational Legal Clinic

September 23, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Passing through the gate of the double-barbed-wire fence surrounding the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Meroua Zouai L’20 thought about the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policies and the people who bore the brunt of their cruelty — her clients.

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Penn Law Criminal Defense Clinic students protect rights of accused

September 23, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — When one of his classmates fell ill the morning of her client’s preliminary hearing, Evan Frohman L’20 was handed the client’s file and was told to be ready to face the prosecutor in court in under an hour.

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A look at the Santa Clara Law Alumni Mentorship Program

September 23, 2020

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — At the start of the pandemic, Chaya Baliga JD ’12, associate privacy counsel at Google, says she and other Santa Clara Law alumni had an urge to feel useful and help others. So she launched an alumni mentorship program at Santa Clara Law that has connected more than

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Gift to USC Gould Law establishes scholarship for first-generation students

September 23, 2020

YAHOO! FINANCE — The University of Southern California Gould School of Law today announced a generous $1 million gift from USC Gould alumnus and tax law attorney David Howard (JD 1970) and his wife, Susan, to establish a new scholarship with positive consideration given to USC Gould students who self-identify as the first in their

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WMU-Cooley Law hosts virtual honors convocation

September 23, 2020

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY COOLEY LAW SCHOOL — On Sept. 3, WMU-Cooley Law School students Dalton Dennis and Jalitza Serrano were presented with WMU-Cooley’s Alumni Distinguished Student Award during the law school’s Tampa Bay campus Honors Convocation.

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