Sentences with phrase «for getting them into law school»

I am constantly hearing stories from alumni who were inspired by him, who thank him for getting them into law school and starting their careers.»

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If you're dedicated enough to get into U of T's MPP program as well as their JD program (law school), you can combine the degrees and complete them simultaneously for a well - rounded law and public policy education.

That's the kind of reasoning that used to get you into trouble in legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Many candidates, making their Christianity a prime qualification, calling for a return to Old Testament law, or promising to get «prayer back into the schools,» secured major party (mostly Republican) support.

When his grades weren't good enough to get into law school, he sat on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll.

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

There is no set requirement for an undergraduate course of study necessary to get into law school, but experts advise that you take courses that sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills.

Are the people recruited those who could not get into Canadian law schools, or those who don't want to wait to have a first degree, or perfectly competent folks for whom the Canadian schools just did not have room?

The strategy of «head down and work hard to get through» is great for getting you A's in school, getting into a top law school, securing a job in a top law firm, and surviving as an associate and perhaps even getting into partnership.

This month's cover story, and really a lot of the talk of the town here in Ontario, centres on the shortage of articling spaces for all the lawyers in training graduating from law school and wanting to get into the practice of law — or at least who want to get called to the bar so they can tick it off their list of accomplishments and then go on to run a successful enterprise using their law - school smarts!

Sitting in 1972, the immediate future looked like about 1,000 or so new lawyers annually with about three times as many people wanting to get into law school as there were spaces for them.

Soon, it will be the season for chucking mortar boards into the air as law students celebrate their success in securing the all important First or 2.1 degree to qualify them to join an ever growing list of contributors to the profits of the vocational law schools and join a list of highly qualified «legal technicians», working for little above the minimum wage, if they can't get that all important training contract or pupillage.

At least some of them will be doing those jobs because, for whatever reason, they didn't get into law school or they got in and had to leave without completing law school.

«This gap between being eligible for legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell into meant she wasn't able to get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontarfor legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell into meant she wasn't able to get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in OntarFor Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontarfor access to justice programs in Ontario.

«When you first go to law school, there is a lot of this competitiveness, especially when you think about people trying to get into the big law firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw school, there is a lot of this competitiveness, especially when you think about people trying to get into the big law firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in OttaLaw in Ottawa.

So, they have individual sessions themselves in the academic track but then part of what they baked into the programming was actually going out and attending sessions that are relevant to law schools and faculty, and talking to vendors in the hall and really getting a better feel for what practice management means and why it's so important to start teaching in law school because as we all know they don't, and as a whole, I mean, there is obviously a few schools that do, but as a whole it's not part of a standard curriculum and they are very excited about that and they even have one co-session that they are doing with the incubator consortium that's being held at the exact same time.

A law internship is a great option for undergraduate or law school students to get some hands - on legal experience, giving them the chances to develop their emerging skills from experienced lawyers as well as dive deep into the area of their interest.

He was instrumental in raising $ 150,000, and his personal donations and event sponsorships last year funded 13 mentorship matches for youth, many of whom are at risk for dropping out of school, using drugs or alcohol, or getting into trouble with the law.