Opinion: ABA JD requirements create barriers to the legal profession
WALL STREET JOURNAL — CNN anchor Poppy Harlow recently took a leave of absence from the network to attend a one-year master’s degree program for nonlawyers at Yale Law School. By drawing attention to Yale’s M.S.L. program, Ms. Harlow helps shed light on the absurdity of the legal profession’s time-consuming and expensive requirements to be licensed…
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LLM GUIDE — The police killing of George Floyd, an African American man, was a pivotal moment for law schools and their efforts to improve diversity and inclusion. Law schools had been striving to boost diversity for years, but the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by Floyd’s death acted as a catalyst for deeper reflection and…
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UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) Fair Elections and Free Speech Center is delighted to announce the details of its September 24, 2021 conference, “Election Subversion: Is American Democracy in Danger?” This virtual event will bring together leading election officials, scholars of democracy, lawyers, political strategists and legal scholars…
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — The expiration two weeks ago of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related moratorium on evictions has caused new uncertainty for the millions of Americans who are behind on rent. And although Congress has approved nearly $47 billion in aid to assist tenants and compensate landlords – particularly small scale family…
Read More about Harvard Law clinics focus on preventing evictionsLewis and Clark professor Aliza Kaplan receives Oregon State Bar Award of Merit
LEWIS & CLARK — The Oregon State Bar (OSB) is bestowing Professor Aliza Kaplan with the organization’s Award of Merit on October 28, 2021. The award is the bar’s highest honor, and “recognizes an Oregon lawyer who has made outstanding contributions to the bench, the bar and the community at large, and who exhibits the highest standards…
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PACE UNIVERSITY — Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer will co-chair the new lawyers and law students group for the New York State Bar Association’s newly formed task force formed to study the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis and make recommendations for “new ways of doing business that would benefit the entire legal community.”
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WVU Today — Consumers in West Virginia and nationally are concerned about their digital data privacy, and there are few and often inconsistent laws to protect them—these are the findings of new research funded by the Center for Consumer Law and Education, a joint program between the West Virginia UniversityCollege of Law and Marshall University.
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REUTERS — Asserting that the pandemic has transformed the practice of law and that COVID-19 may linger in some form indefinitely, the New York State Bar Association on Wednesday announced a task force to study the lessons of the crisis and make recommendations for “new ways of doing business that would benefit the entire legal community.”
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Penalties and discipline against a dozen attorneys over Trump-fueled election challenges probably won’t discourage similar fraud suits in the future, legal experts say. Lawyers behind dismissed cases in several states have been cited for violating professional standards requiring candor in the courtroom and barring the filing of suits not backed up by fact or…
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THE GAZETTE — The Iowa State Bar Association recently received the Harrison Tweed Award from the American Bar Association for creating a free legal hotline to help Iowans during the pandemic. It marked the first time the state bar has received a national award. Anjie Shutts, Des Moines attorney and Iowa State Bar Association president, spoke with The…
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