Sentences with phrase «after law school courses»

These are all jurisprudential, lawyer - centered terms — departments named after law school courses, basically.

Not exact matches

After stints teaching law at Marquette and the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Law School, Strang also began teaching continuing education classes at U of W. (The most recent courlaw at Marquette and the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Law School, Strang also began teaching continuing education classes at U of W. (The most recent courLaw School, Strang also began teaching continuing education classes at U of W. (The most recent course,

Just two years after President Obama signed the HHFKA, the School Nutrition Association, once a supporter of the law's strong nutrition standards, reversed course and started a concerted campaign to roll them back.

After 2 years, Danahy has come to miss the intellectual stimulation that comes from teaching more advanced courses, and his wife will be finishing law school this summer.

What many people missed, at the time, was that after Vallas announced his impending departure and the Supreme Court ruled that it wasn't the court's role to determine whether the Malloy administration had followed the law when they decided a three - credit course counted as a school leadership program, attorney Ecker wrote a commentary piece for the blog «Only in Bridgeport.»

CHOWN: And, as Linda says, I remember at law school in the trial advocacy course... if you wanted to be a litigator, you go to this course, and week after week, male litigators would come, and I would be saying, «I don't think that is a model.»

Born and raised in Ottawa, and after a 5 year stint in Toronto going to law school, articling and completing the Bar Admission Course, I was happy to return to Ottawa to raise a family.

I am currently a graduate member of CILEX after completing a course of study with CILEX Law School focussing on civil litigation and conveyancing.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

It went on to state that Mr. Singh became interested in corporate bankruptcy and restructuring after he took a law school course under professor Alan Resnick, a now - deceased pillar in bankruptcy law and academia who mentored Mr. Singh.

I knew early on — after taking Moot Court, a courtroom simulation course often required at law school — that I was not going to be a traditional courtroom attorney, à la «My Cousin Vinny» or Atticus Finch.

While many other professional disciplines require students to follow a single course of studies (such as medicine) or tightly described streams of study leading to well - defined specialties (such as engineering), law school is a relatively unstructured program that allows a great deal of choice after first year law.

Regardless of whether the course is taken during or after law school, students would have to pay tuition to a third party provider.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

In some states, students may take this examination during law school, usually after completing an ethics course.

Over the last couple of years our Partners gave lectures on different areas of law to students at Kyiv - Mohyla Academy, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and Lviv National Ivan Franko University within the framework of the Arzinger Academy Project (established in September 2010), at summer law schools and as part of training courses conducted by the Students» League of the Ukrainian Bar Association and thus prepared young professionals to practical work awaiting them after graduation.

After completing a mostly traditional first year of law school, Northeastern students enter a quarter system in which 11 - week cooperative placements alternate with 11 - week upper - level courses.

The real challenge, of course, is that the cost of law school education is sky - rocketing, making it more difficult for MLS graduates to pursue a law degree (the reality being that most dual - degreed law librarians, like me, instead obtain their MLS after first having obtained their law degree and having practiced law for awhile).

Texas A&M School of Law students, in collaboration with The Innocence Project of Texas, can earn course credit by investigating the cases of defendants who claim actual innocence, even after all appeals have failed.