Harvard Law teams with AI company on entrepreneurship and innovation course
THE GLOBAL LEGAL POST — Harvard Law School is teaming up with artificial intelligence-powered contract platform Evisort to help provide a course on legaltech entrepreneurship and innovation. Evisort founding members and Harvard Law graduates Jerry Ting and Memme Onwudiwe will be teaching on the course in March next year alongside other global business leaders to share expertise…
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — What is the future of the Internet? Thirty years after the creation of the first web page, what have we learned about the impact of the Internet on communication, connection, and democracy? Technology law and cyber law experts Professor Mary Anne Franks from the University of Miami School of Law and…
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WAFB 9 — A brand new, state of the art esports lab will soon be unveiled at the Southern University Law Center. In an announcement Oct. 22, the Law Center gave a first look at renderings of the facility. What started off as the brainchild of a concept developed by General Manager and Head Esports Coach at Southern…
Read More about Southern University Law Center shares plans for e-sports labLaw firms turn to virtual internships to recruit summer associates
REUTERS — Digital internships for undergraduates and J.D. students are catching on as law firm summer associate recruiting tools that can help build a firm’s “brand awareness.” Eight major U.S. firms now offer “virtual internships” through Forage, an online platform that provides simulated work experiences that employers can use to connect with and evaluate potential future hires.White…
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ABA JOURNAL — Since March 2020, most law firms and legal organizations have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic by allowing their employees to work remotely and transition to more flexible hours. For some lawyers with disabilities, teleworking has brought significant benefits, including increased access to their clients and colleagues and to more job opportunities. Britney Wilson, an…
Read More about Pandemic teleworking has made work more accessible for lawyers with disabilitiesFollowing repeat problems with remote bar exam, California releases investigation findings
ABA JOURNAL — Out of more than 7,000 people who took the July 2021 California bar exam, about 31% experienced software issues. But those problems didn’t result in losses of testing time, the State Bar of California announced Monday. According to a news release, 2% of examinees lost testing time because of software issues. The agency is…
Read More about Following repeat problems with remote bar exam, California releases investigation findingsUniversity of Akron Law students contribute to success of new medical technology innovation competition
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW — You can think of Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED)’s new NEOvations Bench-to-Bedside program as the region’s grad student Shark Tank for medical innovation – without the bite. Modeled after a world-renowned program at the University of Utah, NEOvations B2B brings medicine and pharmacy students from NEOMED together with law,…
Read More about University of Akron Law students contribute to success of new medical technology innovation competitionFordham Law symposium discusses diversity and inclusion in IP law
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On October 8, the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (IPLJ) hosted its 29th annual symposium titled “IP Interrupted: Diverse Voices in Intellectual Property.” Speakers presented on a host of subjects that dealt with the unique ways in which intellectual property impacts marginalized groups. “For me, being an African American woman,…
Read More about Fordham Law symposium discusses diversity and inclusion in IP lawPace Law professor Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer delivers lecture on social media law
PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer delivered the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, October 6, on “Social Media and the Common Law.” Dean Horace Anderson appointed Professor Tenzer as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2019-2021 term. During the holder’s term, the James…
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PENN LAW — Over the summer, over 65 emerging young leaders from over 13 countries came together for the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s 2021Global Institute for Human Rights (GIHR) organized by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership and the Academic Director of the Global Institute for Human Rights, and…
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