Sentences with phrase «by the law school experience»

I also suspect that many of your new students are overwhelmed by the law school experience.

To this day, I meet students who feel completely disillusioned by the law school experience.

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Catholic News Agency: Stanford Law School inaugurates religious liberty clinic Beginning this term, students at Stanford Law School have the opportunity to gain knowledge and real - world experience by participating in the nation's first religious liberty clinic.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

State law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by Steiner.

The idea that a genetic trait could be modified by the life experience of its carrier is a violation of this law and is typically dismissed as Lamarckian fallacy in high school classes.

Senator Hutchison, a product of coed schooling, in a 2001 American University Law Review article wrote, «Talk to students and graduates of single - sex schools (mostly private or parochial), and almost all will say with gusto that they were enriched and strengthened by their experience....

This year's class makes my point — a great cross-section of students, some with teaching experience, some with a business background, one in the Harvard Law School, and several from overseas — but all wanting to see how they could put to work the freedom and flexibility afforded by the charter model.

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in a case brought by teachers who were unhappy with a new law that makes it possible for experienced teachers to be put on unpaid leave if no schools want to give them a job.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

Maryland School Law Deskbook - A concise and accessible guide written by experienced education law attorneys, and published by LexisNexis in cooperation with the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABLaw Deskbook - A concise and accessible guide written by experienced education law attorneys, and published by LexisNexis in cooperation with the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABlaw attorneys, and published by LexisNexis in cooperation with the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE).

A student who is enrolled in a state - approved teacher preparation program in a postsecondary educational institution that is approved by rules of the State Board of Education and who is jointly assigned by the postsecondary educational institution and a district school board to perform a clinical field experience under the direction of a regularly employed and certified educator shall, while serving such supervised clinical field experience, be accorded the same protection of law as that accorded to the certified educator except for the right to bargain collectively as an employee of the district school board.

Connecticut law provides that school administrators be certified, to ensure that our schools and school districts are led by individuals with the knowledge and experience to properly oversee the education of our children.

Medical bills: According to The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt by Elizabeth Warren (back in her Harvard Law School days), 91 % of those who file bankruptcy do so after losing a job, experiencing a major medical event, or a divorce.

Brian Palmer (MFA 1990 Photography) Photojournalist, writer; formerly CNN reporter; formerly with Fortune magazine; formerly Beijing bureau chief, U.S. News and World Reports; his documentary, Full Disclosure (2009), based on his experience as an embedded journalist in Iraq with a U.S. Marine infantry unit was supported by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Applied Research Center; photos have appeared in the New York Times; contributor, Mother Jones magazine, Colorlines, The Huffington Post; 2009 fellow at NYU Law School's Center for Law and Security, recipient of the Nation Institute investigative journalism grant

A lively discussion is underway at The Volokh Conspiracy blog on the issue of whether law schools hire the wrong type of people to be professors by overemphasizing «elite academic credentials at the expense of practical knowledge and experience.»

Here in Manitoba, we have opted for a core group of experienced staff research lawyers, supplemented by third year law students who clerk with the Court for law school credit.

Fee - setting is influenced by: (1) the economic marketplace for experienced lawyers; (2) the pay provided to new law school graduates; (3) the cost of operation, consisting of overhead expenses and the built - in cost of maintaining a legal staff and adequate facilities; and (4) public responsiveness to cost - effectiveness.

BLG is experienced in by - law and policy areas with respect to school board governance, operation and administration.

The Florida Bar Foundation strives to provide greater access to justice in Florida by: expanding and improving representation and advocacy on behalf of low - income persons in civil legal matters; improving the fair and effective administration of justice; and promoting public service among lawyers by making it an integral component of the law school experience.

McGeorge School of Law's distinctive two - year Global Lawyering Skills (GLS) intensive legal writing program — ranked # 13 by U.S. News & World Report in 2012 — is designed to enhance and deepen the students» experience in research, writing, and oral advocacy and produce skilled, practice - ready graduates.

I think it's perfectly legit for 1Ls, a month into their law school experience, to be a little thrown by the whole «casebook method» of teaching.

It is caused by at least three other factors: (i) almost every problem law students encounter in law school comes labelled either by the course or by the assigned moot topic; few students ever have to deal with a simple cry for help from a client; (ii) in my experience at law schools — and it may be different now — almost all research was done in the context of litigation or moots and, while that's obviously an important focus, it's not the only one; and, perhaps the most important factor, (iii) the lawyers who give the students work far too often ask the student to «find a case» — this is almost universal focus of litigators — and are uninterested in either context or principle.

A search for «legal research» in the Social Sciences database turns up 683 results, such as Current Legal Research Topics Database, a database of provisional dissertation titles by students registered for research degrees in law at higher education institutions in the UK; Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the Philippinlaw at higher education institutions in the UK; Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the PhilippinLaw School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

As highlighted by Abony Holmes in The Shark, Obama's major complaint about law school is how it contracts one's perspective, rather than broadening it as an educational experience ought to do.

After a visit to the Mayo Clinic, the dean of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University decided that there was a need for a «teaching hospital» for law school graduates to gain experience and learn their trade while being assisted by experienced lawyeLaw at Arizona State University decided that there was a need for a «teaching hospital» for law school graduates to gain experience and learn their trade while being assisted by experienced lawyelaw school graduates to gain experience and learn their trade while being assisted by experienced lawyers.

It's a popular law school horror story told to law students before they begin their legal research and writing classes, and to new lawyers by older, more - experienced lawyers who either have a similar war story or «know someone» who it happened to:

One lawyer in attendance noted the ability of students to gain more practical experience through working at legal clinics such as Parkdale Community Legal Services in Toronto, a legal aid clinic established by York University's Osgoode Hall Law School in the 1970s.

Before starting law school, he gained valuable client - service experience at the R. Rex Parris Law Firm in Lancaster, California by working in their personal injury and class action employment law divisiolaw school, he gained valuable client - service experience at the R. Rex Parris Law Firm in Lancaster, California by working in their personal injury and class action employment law divisioLaw Firm in Lancaster, California by working in their personal injury and class action employment law divisiolaw divisions.

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Recently, an esteemed colleague of mine wrote on her Facebook page that a successful senior lawyer told her, in discussing the difficulties experienced by articling students in finding placements, that if students are alumni from specific Canadian law schools, their likelihood of future success was minimal, and that their investment in their legal education was not worth it.

In law school and in practice, everyone spends a lot of time learning by being a student — learning from professors and more experienced attorneys.

After graduating near the top of his class from Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C., Montevideo went on to work for the largest business and litigation firm in South Carolina, followed by experience at two prominent Los Angeles and Orange County plaintiffs trial firms, along with a stint in public service via the government sector through working with the Department of Justice in their Environmental and Natural Resources Division; Environmental Enforcement Section.

In my own school, a week - long problem - based learning exercise in which students act as members of «law firms» working on a legal case with faculty coaching is consistently described by students as the most meaningful and useful experience of their first year.

On the academic side, effective legal writing is the subject of scores of legal writing textbooks3 and hundreds of articles.4 Legal writing instruction has been part of legal education in some form since the time of Langdell.5 The American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards recognize the importance of legal writing by requiring law students to undertake writing experiences as part of their first - year and upper - level courses.6

Harvard law professor John Manning, who has 30 years of experience spanning 10 jobs in the public and private sectors, including academia, delivered a lecture to the Harvard Law School Class of 2015 on eight simple rules they should live by if they wish to be «happy lawyers and human beings.&raqlaw professor John Manning, who has 30 years of experience spanning 10 jobs in the public and private sectors, including academia, delivered a lecture to the Harvard Law School Class of 2015 on eight simple rules they should live by if they wish to be «happy lawyers and human beings.&raqLaw School Class of 2015 on eight simple rules they should live by if they wish to be «happy lawyers and human beings.»

The law school uses this vast network to provide an excellent experience for students, by providing outstanding teaching, support, and research opportunities, alongside contributing to global legal and societal issues.

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.

If successful, the Institute will drive down the cost and uncertainty of obtaining a law degree by driving up quality and consistency of educational content and work experience obtained during law school.

The program is designed to enhance the educational experience of students by giving them an opportunity to do advanced legal work that generally is not available through the law school's curriculum.

Personally, I'm very persuaded by the argument that there is a need in society for a different kind of law school, one that uses innovative approaches to build skills and provide hands - on experience, focused on the needs of the users of legal services.

The existing rates of debt experienced by graduating students suggest that a large majority of students graduating from Ontario law schools will be faced with significant carry - forward debt burdens.

The Criminal Justice Center serves as a platform to bring criminal law faculty together with interested students, enhancing the students» law school experience by providing them with mentorship, area - specific education, and criminal practice training.

Although students often view their legal work experiences as unrelated to their academic endeavors, further success in law school can be fueled, at least in part, by those work experiences.

why do students and law schools think it is a great idea to train as a lawyer now (at fairly significant expense) when the reality is that it will take some time before the excess supply of experienced and recently qualified lawyers is absorbed by a resurgent legal profession when we finally do start to see the green shoots?

Because our brains process and comprehend new and abstract information by relating it to existing knowledge and life experiences, finding connections between undergraduate and law school experiences is essential for success, especially in the first year.

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