Sentences with phrase «on law school»

Performing well on law school exams is essential to success in law school.

Law had long interested me (my grandfather was a lawyer) and, after a year of consideration, I decided on law school even though I was not sure I wanted to practice.

To help foster public interest values in students, we collaborate with law schools to expand public interest programming on law school campuses.

«My understanding is that the strike does not have a significant impact on the law school, which continues to operate,» says Natalie Lum - Tai, president of the University of Toronto Students» Law Society.

B.C. universities aren't going to get any more money from government (that's obvious), but a freeze on law school tuition means that UVic and UBC will find it harder to attract the «best and brightest» legal scholars and may well have to lay off support staff.

But in addition to being a subsidy for wealthier law students and soon - to - be-wealthier lawyers, the freeze on law school tuition has created a market for non-B.C.

What is more, since many of them lack substantial experience as practicing attorneys, they shape the structure of legal training around success on law school exams rather than the everyday practice of law.

After graduating cum laude Ms. Spodek set her sights on Law School while working as a paralegal for a real estate attorney.

Want to gain public interest law leadership experience while spreading the word about access to justice on your law school campus?

Besides placing a strong emphasis on law school grades as an indicator of legal aptitude, Cravath also looked for other qualities — a passionate dedication to the practice of law as a profession, a willingness to work hard and meticulous attention to the quality of the work.

The traditional big firm hiring model — focused on law school pedigree and grades — does a poor job of selecting candidates who will succeed in today's legal marketplace.

What made you decide on law school?

It's all the rage these days to beat up on law school as a bad investment and to moan about the economic travails of the legal profession.

(For background on law school incubators, including the Access to Justice Initiative, see my recent post here.)

In fact, the 2002 CBA resolution on law school tuition fees, was prepared by the OBA member on the CBA committee.

Students with disabilities will be happy to learn in the future any extra time granted to take the LSAT will not be noted on their law school application.

SRL guests will sit in on law school classes, tour the law library, and participate in speaker panels dedicated to raising awareness about self - representation, sharing their experiences with both future lawyers and current practitioners.

The Carnegie Foundation, long a leader in American higher education, released a comprehensive report on law school in March, and will follow up by partnering with legal educators in an effort to implement some of the ideas in its report.

I have spoken about a variety of issues at Ignite Phoenix # 5, Podcamp AZ, Social Media Club Phoenix, Glendale Community College, and on the Law School Interactive podcast.

This data is compounded by news of the law school brain drain - the latest trend of the smartest undergraduate students taking a pass on law school entirely.

This part of the WLMP is particularly beneficial to first year students, who have a chance to get support and guidance from upper year students who have a better grasp on the law school experience.

My general advice is that LRW is the most important course in law school, that a vast amount of legal practice in any field involves writing, that the ability to translate and explain clearly to clients and others is a major part of their jobs, and that if they can internalize the form of a good legal memo, they can apply that skill more easily and successfully on law school exams.

American and UK firms are actively recruiting associates from law firms and starting recruitment campaigns on law school campuses.

Our results support the ever - increasing emphasis on legal writing instruction in law school curricula, the ABA standards on law school accreditation, and continuing legal education programs.

For these reasons, doctrinal professors should not assume that legal writing classes teach the skills that are needed on law school exams, nor should they expect that students would intuitively understand how to transfer the skills taught in their legal writing classes to an exam context.

116 That advice misunderstands what is taught in legal writing classes as compared to the skills that are needed on law school exams.

You can interact with the YLD assembly, engage in the YLD Fellows debate, and attend the multitude of panels and meetings, including ones on law school debt, Title IX, and becoming a better public speaker.

Having excelled at law school, they have proved themselves able to resolve legal problems (particularly, those that show up on law school exams) «with remarkable speed and accuracy.»

In sum, one way to mitigate the stress our students feel is to more clearly explain what they are expected to produce on their law school exams and help them practice the skills that they will need.

The program offers Dean's Fellow study groups for all first - year law courses; individual Writing Dean's Fellow support for upper - level writing courses as well as cover letters, resumes, writing samples, etc.; and regular workshops on law school achievement, exam taking skills and bar exam preparation.

You spent significant money and time on law school but they did not teach you the most critical aspect of being a law firm owner: How to get clients as a lawyer.

But while the American Bar Association (ABA) rightly pushed to raise the quality and uniformity of legal education at the beginning of the 20th century, it has entered the 21st with an effective monopoly on law school accreditation and professional regulation.

As we do a good job on law school recruiting, when we're looking for laterals it's in the fourth or fifth year or above.

All of the books that are recommended in the primer for succeeding on law school exams can be found below, and you may also find some helpful books in this list of subject - specific law books.

But you don't have to be a young practitioner to appreciate his mind, which also ponders questions like the legality of «murderbots» and Pokemon Go's legal pitfalls as well as crunches numbers to report on law school enrollment trends.

As part of Lawyer Monthly's new series on law school, recruitment and careers in the legal sector, John Oxley,...

This is a skill that (unlike spotting issues on law school exams) you will need every time you speak to a potential client.

The money will reportedly pay for the construction of Wasserstein Hall, a new academic center on the law school's campus.

Though most lawyers rely on law school training, the discipline of actual practice and intuition as the instruments to guide and hone their rhetorical skills, some might wish to think directly about the art of persuasion itself.

The ROI on law school is simply not great given the «risk» of a much more uncertain market with diminishing roles for those in the early stages of their career.

The Federalist Society at Miami Law hosted senior attorney Clark Neily for a discussion about criminal justice reform recently on the Law School campus.

He also noted that the Special Committee on Law School Graduates for the bar has spent two years putting the program together.

Zacher summarizes some recent data on law school tuition and the expected earnings of new law graduates:

We structure our firms based on law school subjects and not on the industry focus of our clients.

But here's my personal take on law school success.

Did you know that your choice of undergraduate major may have contributed to how well or poorly you scored on the Law School Admission Test?

Beyond academic governance, Flex Time models may also have an impact on collective agreements (which stipulate working hours and requirements of consultation and / or agreement prior to changes in any changes to the delivery of courses affecting terms and conditions of staff or faculty work) or on Law School budgets (some of which collect tuition by «term» rather than for each credit).

Cohen wraps up his thoughts on law school by saying, «[j] ust as lawyers are learning that it's about clients, not lawyers, so too must law schools realize that it's about students, not the Academy.»

He served on the Law School Student Senate during each of his three years in law school and received the Dean Thomas W. Christopher Award for service to his fellow students and the law school.

The Above the Law blog had a slightly different, but still pessimistic, take on the law school path, asserting in their post titled Go to a Top 50 Law School or Don't Go at All that «recent employment stats suggest that there are really only 50 schools worth going to, if you want to get a job after you graduate from law school.»