Law firms announce budget cuts
LAW.COM – To date, 69 firms have announced cuts in lawyer salary (excluding changes to equity partner compensation). The cuts have advanced across the Am Law 200 as expected: they started out among firms in low profit margin buckets and then broadened to higher margin buckets and deepened within the buckets, as evidenced by the curves…
Read More about Law firms announce budget cutsFordham Law dean Matthew Diller discusses the role of lawyers during crisis
NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL – It might be hard to imagine the other side of this pandemic—to see past the horizon—but when this crisis ends, there will be many new and urgent needs. But undoubtedly there will also be new opportunities as the experience changes our society, economy and culture on a long-term basis.
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NWI TIMES – In the last three years, Valparaiso University’s final class of law school graduates have studied under extraordinary circumstances — first learning their school, a 141-year-old institution, would be closing upon their graduation, then completing their legal education in the midst of a sweeping global pandemic.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Recognizing our distinguished 2020 graduates: Excellence and Achievement Awards
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law honors outstanding studentsCase Western Reserve Law announces student awards
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Recognizing our distinguished 2020 graduates: Annual Student-Voted Awards. The following awards were determined by a Spring vote by the graduating class of 2020.
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law announces student awardsColumbia Law celebrates online commencement with address from former US Vice President Joe Biden
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL – Gathered in spirit and online, the Class of 2020 graduated from Columbia Law School on May 20. Family, friends, and the Law School community joined more than 700 graduates for the virtual celebration. The ceremony included wisdom, advice, and exhortations from faculty, students, and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the…
Read More about Columbia Law celebrates online commencement with address from former US Vice President Joe BidenFather and daughter Franklin and Sarah Diekman graduate from Florida A&M Law
THE NATIONAL JURIST – Sarah Diekman and her dad Franklin shared many experiences when they lived in rural Dyer, Ind. And now they are about to graduate together from Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando.
Read More about Father and daughter Franklin and Sarah Diekman graduate from Florida A&M LawNortheastern Law hosts virtual commencement
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Fearless but not flawless, Northeastern Law welcomed almost 1,000 participants across Zoom and YouTube to a live, virtual commencement celebration of the Class of 2020 on Thursday, May 21, 2020. More than 200 JD, LLM and MLS graduates were joined by family and friends from the across the globe for the festivities, which…
Read More about Northeastern Law hosts virtual commencementPenn State Dickinson Law hosts virtual celebration for 2020 graduates
PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW – The global health pandemic may have resulted in the postponement of Dickinson Law’s traditional in-person commencement ceremony for the class of 2020, but it did not stop administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni from collectively recognizing the accomplishments of the Law School’s juris doctor and master of laws graduates.
Read More about Penn State Dickinson Law hosts virtual celebration for 2020 graduatesSeton Hall Law professor Paula A. Franeze offers advice to recent law graduates
PAULA A. FRANEZE – Thank you for the grace and resilience that you have shown in these daunting times. You are entering our profession at a tipping-point moment where our shared responsibilities and collective pain have made even clearer that we do not live only for ourselves. We are connected to each other, and what we…
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