Another brainstorming tool that has the added benefit of getting your foot in
the door at the law school is to call a faculty member that teaches in the general area and get his or her thoughts on what course would most benefit the school.
I had one foot in
the door at law school, but circumstances changed.
Not exact matches
Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier
school often opens
doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study
at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.
The report included a link to a closed -
door presentation that J.P. Morgan made
at Harvard
Law School in March.
In this issue's forum, Charles Ogletree, Harvard
Law School professor, and Kimberly Robinson, professor
at the University of Richmond
School of
Law, assert that the court should overturn the Rodriguez decision, thus opening the
door to federal remedies to public - education inequality.
Jessica Levinson, a professor
at Loyola
Law School and president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, compared the secret questionnaires to private conversations with lobbyists, «or any closed -
door meeting where you try to extract a promise from a lawmaker in exchange for x.»
With over two decades of serving in the military (active duty and reserve component), teaching
at several
law schools, and being a graduate of the Army War College, I have opened up some
doors that may not be there for most lawyers.
While there, I thought of
law school as a factory, with a large conveyor belt that was moving through and ultimately delivering students
at the
door of large
law firms.
My next
door neighbour
at Heenan Blaikie, Ryan Teschner lent me this morning a history of the Queen's
Law School at 50 — «Let Right Be Done»: A History of the Faculty of
Law at Queen's University by Professor Mark D. Walters I was very pleased to see 3 pages about the early days of computerized legal research in Common
Law Canada, which all started
at KingstonThe story of Datum / Soquij is for another day..
But in the insular, self - aggrandizing, echo - chamber of the
law school, it's entirely possible that decision - makers would rather close their
doors than admit that a shot
at survival requires fundamental change.
Students, instructors, alumni and parents called for changes in gun
laws, and more safety requirements
at schools, including bulletproof windows and
doors.