University at Buffalo Law Environmental Advocacy Clinic assists in protecting Niagara River Corridor
UBNOW — The Niagara River — and pro bono work by UB law students — gain national prominence this week when the river and its corridor become a Wetland of International Importance and part of the Ramsar Convention. Thirty-three students enrolled in the School of Law’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic invested more than 1,450 pro bono hours…
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THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW — The Gonzaga University School of Law is launching a new mentorship program designed to pair a recent graduate interested in opening a solo practice with an experienced attorney. The Solo Practice Incubator has a focus on elder law because the stipends the mentor and mentee will receive are funded by Aging and Long-Term Care…
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SANTA CLARA LAW — Michelle Oberman has been selected as an Emerging Ethics Fellow by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Her term will be for the 2020 – 2021 school year.
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UC DAVIS LAW — Professor Emerita Angela P. Harris has been named the American Bar Foundation 2019-20 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. The William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law leads empirical and interdisciplinary research at the ABF on law and legal processes related to issues of diversity and inequality
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BAYLOR LAW — Baylor Law’s Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition is an invitation-only mock trial tournament that is one of the nation’s most prestigious, and intense, competitions. At the special 10-year anniversary event, dubbed Top Gun X, the best advocates from 16 trial advocacy schools will compete
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW — Anat Alon-Beck has accepted the offer to join Case Western Reserve University School of Law as Assistant Professor of Law on the tenure track
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Arkansas Law 3L student Katie Rose Martin has bee named a Public Policy Fellow from the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation. Martin will be mentored by Arkansas Law alumnus and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater ’80, who is a partner of Squire Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Donald Cobb ’18 went from Stuttgart, Germany, where the U.S. Army medic had just retired from the military to being an incoming 1L law student at SIU Law. Three years later, Cobb, of Scott City, M.O., was chosen as Class of 2018 speaker at commencement exercises.
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LIBERTY LAW — Liberty University School of Law hosted the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on Thursday, February 21, 2019, in the law school’s Supreme Courtroom with over 250 in attendance.
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LAW.COM — A ban on consensual romantic relationships between judges and their employees, and continued investigation and public report of judges accused of sexual misconduct even if they retire or resign were among proposals offered Tuesday during a hearing on the federal judiciary
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