Florida International University Law student Briana Harris receives inaugural H.T. Smith Legal Studies Scholarship
MIAMI’S COMMUNITY NEWS — As law firms across the country put added emphasis on minority hiring and diversity in the legal profession, South Florida’s preeminent litigation firm Kluger Kaplan Silverman Katzen & Levine has awarded Briana Harris with the firm’s inaugural H.T. Smith Legal Studies Scholarship for the 2021-22 academic year.
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THE HILL — The Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm President Biden’s nominee Lily Batchelder to serve as assistant secretary for tax policy in the Treasury Department. The upper chamber voted 64-34 to confirm Batchelder, a law professor at New York University and a former Obama administration official, on Wednesday afternoon. In the key role, Batchelder will serve as senior advisor…
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MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Mitchell Hamline Professor Colette Routel has been named to the bench in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The appointment, announced Thursday by Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, was one of two made to fill vacancies in the Fourth Judicial District that will occur with the retirements of Judges Margaret Daly…
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PENN STATE NEWS — Penn State Dickinson Law second-year law students Aranda Stathers, Aria Plants and Ezza Ahmed were sworn in as court-appointed special advocates (CASA) on Tuesday, Sept. 7, at the Cumberland County Courthouse. The three students inaugurated a new collaboration with CASA offering second-year Dickinson Law students a one-credit experiential learning course called Introduction…
Read More about Penn State Dickinson Law students train to become court-appointed advocates in new classStanford Law energy policy center issues report on environmental financial disclosure recommendations
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — Today, the Stanford Sustainable Finance Initiative, a group of 20 global energy and finance experts, and Stanford Law School’s (SLS) Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Financeissued a groundbreaking report on how California can further its financial policy leadership to address the growing challenges posed by climate change. The advisory group, established…
Read More about Stanford Law energy policy center issues report on environmental financial disclosure recommendationsUniversity of Virginia Law launches LawTech Center led by professor Danielle Citron
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new scholarly center that will focus on pressing questions in law and technology, with Professor Danielle Citron serving as inaugural director. The LawTech Center will address policy issues, legal texts as data and the use of tech in…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School is representing a U.S. Army veteran who filed a petition for military naturalization on September 22, 2021. Ivan Ocon, a veteran from Las Cruces, New Mexico, served six years in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Jordan in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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ABA JOURNAL — A survey released Tuesday asked young attorneys if their legal education was worth the cost, and fewer than half said yes. However, 60.9% of respondents said that if they had to do it over, they would still attend law school.
Read More about ABA and AccessLex Institute report looks at the impact of student loan debt on young lawyersUMass Law welcomes new law faculty and staff
UMASS LAW — UMass Law is excited to announce the appointment of a new assistant director of legal career services and two new faculty members. They represent a range of law schools and experiences—serving as an immigration attorney, teaching legal skills and writing, and working as a district attorney.
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REUTERS — A scholarship program honoring the career of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has named its inaugural class of awardees, choosing four first-year law students to receive a $10,000 stipend and mentoring from a network of former New York federal prosecutors.
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