Sentences with phrase «for prospective law students»

«A new era has dawned for prospective law students.»

For prospective law students, IAALS launched Law Jobs: By The Numbers ™, an interactive online tool that gives prospective law students the most transparent and complete law school employment rate information available.

The situation looks dismal for prospective law students.

Not exact matches

This is a great way for those who want to pursue an MBA to earn this degree, which is traditionally quite costly, or for prospective legal students to pay for law school.

At some point, prospective law school students need to recognize the realities of attending law school, stop blaming the ABA, law schools, and whoever else they can, and take some accountability for their choices.

Every law school indicates to prospective students if they pound the pavement and pound it hard after receiving their law license, they will eventually get the dream job for which they are searching.

Mandell Pinder, known for its Aboriginal and treaty law practice, recently hosted a Vancouver networking session to bringing together prospective mentor lawyers with Aboriginal lawyers and law students.

The for - profit law schools» marketing is all about selling prospective students on how they teach «practical skills» (translation: how to do stuff lawyers actually do).

For law students and prospective law students, there are course outlines and information about law schools.

Because the university programs were not seen by prospective students as useful training for the practice of law, they lost out to the more practical pathways of apprenticeship and private law schools.85 Only later, when they married the theoretical and the practical instruction, including the teaching of writing and speaking about the law, would university programs rise to become the dominant force in legal education.86

For all those prospective law students drowning in data, a new website is here to help.

Launched in January, the site aims to be a comprehensive resource for current and prospective law students.

The site's creators aim to make it the premier Internet site for law school rankings, expecting it to be of interest to prospective, current and former law students, among others.

Two key goals include (1) evaluating student and law school performance to identify key success factors and scalable opportunities for law school assessment, as (2) identifying key components of «experiential education» and creating universal definitions that can be used and understood by law schools, the profession, and prospective students.

It's that time of the year — when prospective law students are frantically sending away early applications for Top 20 law schools.

(2) I believe that trying to find a just solution to a contentious matter is as if not more demanding than arguing for its resolution according to legal precedents (I always tell my students that they are mistaken if they believe that mooting is the pinnacle of intellectual achievement in law school — in fact it is learning how to negotiate, mediate and problem - solve)(3) Learning how to problem - solve (which includes relating to the people as well as the problem) is a good deal more practical and important for prospective lawyers than being able to find and apply legal precedent, any well - trained monkey can learn to do that and (4) I think we make the mistake all the time of imagining that knowledge and skills are somehow binary processes.

Patricia White, dean of the University of Miami School of Law, advised prospective students not to «look to law school as a safe harbor» to wait out the current economic storm, and even offered incentives to students willing to defer admission for a yeLaw, advised prospective students not to «look to law school as a safe harbor» to wait out the current economic storm, and even offered incentives to students willing to defer admission for a yelaw school as a safe harbor» to wait out the current economic storm, and even offered incentives to students willing to defer admission for a year.

We also serve as a useful tool for prospective and current law school students.

Langdell raised the standards for admission to the law school, requiring prospective students to translate a long passage of Latin (without a dictionary) and answer questions drawn from Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765 - 1769).

Law firms engage in this process because it provides a valuable outlet for them to raise their profile and bring the quality of their work to the wider market — to clients, prospective buyers of legal services, potential hires, students, and others involved in the legal sector.

To further assist our prospective students as they consider enrolling in law school, we have published Employment and Salary Information for the Classes of 2017, 2016, and 2015.

• Saint John is the home of offices for each of the three leading regional law firms (Stewart McKelvey, Cox & Palmer, and McInnes Cooper), as well as several established, dynamic, and growing local firms, which offers an excellent mix to prospective summer and articling students in terms of both size and variety of work.

Guiton shares the sentiment of another law student who recently told him «it almost turns you off of the law profession... when you see all these young prospective lawyers kind of working against each other for the future jobs.»

While in law school, Nadia volunteered in: developing written accommodation policies to promote mental health awareness as an Equity Officer; guiding prospective students as a Student Ambassador; reviewing papers for publication as Senior Editor of the Journal of Law & Equality; and, managing files for low - income clients at the Downtown Legal Services Clinlaw school, Nadia volunteered in: developing written accommodation policies to promote mental health awareness as an Equity Officer; guiding prospective students as a Student Ambassador; reviewing papers for publication as Senior Editor of the Journal of Law & Equality; and, managing files for low - income clients at the Downtown Legal Services ClinLaw & Equality; and, managing files for low - income clients at the Downtown Legal Services Clinic.