Sentences with phrase «accredited law school»

Today, most states require that applicants be graduates of ABA - accredited law schools before they can take the state's bar examination.

They are experts in tax law, having graduated from accredited law schools, and completed their articling program.

According to the recent Law School Transparency Report, enrollment in ABA accredited law schools dropped 28 % since 2010.

Moreover, the Law Society says that it should not put itself in the position of effectively endorsing the Covenant by accrediting the law school despite the Covenant's existence.

Announcements of openings are shared with accredited law schools throughout the nation and posted to the Vermont Judiciary's website.

And the overall number is likely lower, since it seems probable that the temporary employment figures for the graduates of almost any top 50 school would be better than the average outcome for the graduates of the 198 ABA - accredited law schools as a whole.

§ Graduation from a MN law school or from any ABA - accredited law school if employed at a qualified Minnesota agency.

As a result, it says, plaintiff Love has more than $ 350,000 in student loan debt from a discredited school; plaintiff Bernier left a tenured professorship at a different, accredited law school for a position at Charlotte School of Law.

Colorado Law ranked # 37 out of all ABA - accredited law schools on The National Jurist's Diversity Honor Roll.

§ An Applicant must have earned a J.D. degree from an ABA - accredited law school within the past ten (10) years and be a licensed member in good standing of the North Carolina State Bar.

In the early 1920's, the ABA began to accredit law schools independently.

Trinity Western, in turn, has challenged the Law Society of Upper Canada's decision in April against accrediting its law school.

The Law Society's decision not to accredit the law school rested solely on the requirement to sign the Covenant, rather than the religious affiliation or pedagogy of the school.

We say that that Law Society of BC — the body empowered by government to ensure a diverse and inclusive legal profession — couldn't legally accredit a law school that discriminates in its admissions and hiring practices.

LSUC benchers voted in April 2014 not to accredit the law school proposed by TWU, a British Columbia - based evangelical Christian university, because of its community covenant that asks students to refrain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman,» a stipulation critics argue is discriminatory against LGBTQ individuals.

Super Lawyers Magazine features the list and profiles of selected attorneys and is distributed to attorneys in the state or region and the ABA - accredited law school libraries.

Essential Functions Minimum Qualifications o Juris Doctor degree earned from an ABA - accredited law school o Three years of legal practice experience o Excellent research and writing skills o Excellent academic record

As I noted in a recent blog, the ABA is still accrediting law schools while experts predict 20 may fail as the market adjusts.

* The American Bar Association is planning to do away with its requirement that accredited law schools use a standardized admissions test to admit students.

And, as an aside, the notion that the LSUC can refuse to accredit law schools based on its disagreement with the school's (otherwise legal) values, beliefs, practices, etc. raises real concerns about academic freedom.

No currently accredited law school has any policy that discriminates in terms of who may apply for entry to that law school.

The best way to learn the legal profession is through tried experience and practical training, which, under our current system, are delayed for years, first by the requirement that would - be lawyers graduate from accredited law schools and second by the bar exam and its accompanying exam for professional fitness.

a private, independent, ABA accredited law school.

«We hope our site provides a wide variety of expertise, so prospective students can make an informed decision and get acquainted with accredited law schools.»

The story on Whittier in the NYT is here.As I said in 2012,» [t] he world doesn't need as many ABA - accredited law schools as it has already, just as the world has figured out that it doesn't need as many U.S. - based BigLaw firms as...

Available to graduates from a Minnesota law school, or from any ABA - accredited law school if employed at a qualified Minnesota agency.

Individual employment reports from almost every ABA - accredited law school in the country are avail...

Via TaxProf Blog and the ABA Journal comes the news that the ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has proposed a rule change to the current ABA standard requiring that more than half of all credit hours offered by accredited law schools be taught by full - time, and hence generally «academic,» faculty.

Albany Law School, a private, independent, ABA accredited law school.

While the curricula of accredited medical schools must instruct students in «the fundamental principles of medicine» and accredited law schools must impart the «basic principles of public and private law,» the essential and fundamental principles of teaching have yet to be established.

As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

§ An applicant must have earned a J.D. from an ABA - accredited law school, be admitted to the New York State bar, practicing public interest or government law for at least five (5) years and be a member in good standing.

Indiana, which contains 2 % of the US population, already has four ABA - accredited law schools, including two «top 30» institutions, both of which feature legal unemployment rates for their grads of around 40 %, and which are currently placing only 20 % to 25 % of their graduates in firms of more than ten attorneys.

The decision of LSUC was made on a different basis, namely, that accrediting a law school that prevents access through a discriminatory policy is not in the public interest.

Hot off the press: the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario's legal regulator) has rejected Trinity Western University's application to be an accredited law school.

JD from an accredited law school and admitted to the NV Bar with a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.

Without the same degree of training and education as lawyers earning a juris doctor degree after three years in an ABA - accredited law school, some argue, LLLTs will not be able to fully serve their clients or protect their best interests.

The first part directs that accredited law schools have sound admissions policies, while the second part mandates that people who don't appear capable of graduating from law school or passing a bar exam should not be admitted as students.

«I can not accept that it's in the public interest to accredit a law school that wants to control its students in the bedroom,» said Bencher Howard Goldblatt in a remark reminiscent to one made by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1967.

He told benchers there is no legal or logical basis for them not to accredit the law school.

«As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.»

His point was that despite CLE requirements, lawyers aren't actually assessed by regulators as their careers progress — it's assumed that if they attend an accredited law school, get a certain degree and pass a bar exam, law students are competent to become lawyers.