Sentences with phrase «get into law school in»

But when law firms see foreign degrees that aren't from world prestigious schools they see one of two things; someone who couldn't get into law school in Canada and went abroad, or someone who has been practicing abroad and likely doesn't know much about Canadian law.

The next «caper,» as Goff calls it, was helping this student get into law school in Uganda.

Not exact matches

In fact there's nothing particularly objective about who gets into the best clubs — whether that means the best schools, law firms or corporate positions.

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.

In Colorado, Nicole was the driving force to get Senate Bill 09 - 226 introduced and passed into law requiring all school districts to have a policy to keep food allergic children safe at school.

Before getting into the world of school food, Kate practiced law, worked as a professional chef in both white tablecloth restaurants and institutions, and also owned a large wholesale and retail bakery.

There's a young lawyer, he goes to law school, works very, very hard, he wants to be a success, does well in law school, earns good grades, gets into a big firm.

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.

It's the law and people like Mr. Yearwood (who in my opinion is an arrogant and insensitive man) does not care if a concerned mother like Mrs. Kimberly Puccia (who was only waiting to make sure that her child got into the dance school building safely) receive's a ticket by one of his Traffic Agent's under his command.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE - Jan 27 - Jasbina Ahluwalia got a master's degree in philosophy, went to law school, and then seven years into a successful law career, she became a professional matchmaker.

She plays Elle Woods, the seemingly airheaded California girl who gets dumped by her aristocratic boyfriend, enrols into Harvard Law School to impress him and ends up a high - flying legal eagle in her own right.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

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.

Those students graduate from high school at higher rates, are less likely to get pregnant as teens or run into issues with the law, and are more likely to attend integrated colleges and work in integrated workplaces, he said.

Watson learned from a neighbor's son - in - law, who was a nurse, that a nursing degree would provide a stepping stone to get into veterinary school.

Many new associates, relieved at getting through law school and securing a job, are unexpectedly thrust into a sink or swim legal environment that puts a sting in learning.

Coming out of law school in 1986, Kevin was anxious to get into the court room.

I am a history major, and in every one of my classes there were at least three people who were taking history because they needed a bachelors to get into law school.

Legally Blonde has probably done more to lower prospective law students» expectations on the difficulties of getting into and succeeding in a top - tier law school than any other film.

We bought at the height of the housing bubble in 2007, one of those bend - you - over, no - money - down, first (and second) mortgages that only an idiot young law grad like myself would get into (because law school taught me everything there is to know about mortgages and home - buying, if not how not to be stupid).

While Benjamin admits it can be a bit of a challenge to get back into school mode, learning soft skills (especially communication skills through teaching) before going back helped him succeed in law school.

It seems odd that those students who worked their butts off to graduate in the top half of their class or to get into a good law school (i.e., not Bond university) should have to subsidize the C - students or the trust fund brats who went to Bond because daddy wanted them to be a lawyer.

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.

By studying hard, getting good grades that raise your GPA, and submitting an excellent thesis that shows your critical thinking, reasoning skills and insight into ethics and justice, you'll strengthen your application to law school at postgraduate level in the future.

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It seems a lot of students at least that I know went to law school knowing about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and even took out loans to get into law school, in order to finance law school under the knowledge that they would be able to repay them down the road.

Before 1949, when the LSAT was first administered, one's ability to get into a top law school in the U.S. depended more than anything on pedigree.

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!

Keep in mind that with the advent of «market value» degrees, tuition is more expensive than ever, and students are coming out of law school with massive debt and an understandable desire to cut into that debt and get on with making a good living beyond that — sooner than later.

In round two of the mailbag episodes, Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice gave even more advice to people who got into law schools and are trying to figure out the best course of action.

You can certainly argue about the problems faced by racialized communities and how that would impact their odds of getting into a Canadian law school, and you can put forward proposals to help them get in.

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.

A number of people in Quebec were annoyed that the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a provincial law that prohibited people from getting their kids into English - stream public education by sending them first to an English - language private school.

As much as getting into law school was a task, finding a paying Canadian articling position in a major Canadian city is difficult.

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.

One English municipality used its spy powers under the anti-terrorism law to prosecute a couple who claimed to live in a school district other than where they did live, in order to get their kid into a better school.

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.

• Have you overcome tremendous hardship, either financially, socially, or emotionally in order to get into 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 Ontario.

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Getting a great job immediately after law school is top of many students» priorities, but isn't the only consideration in deciding whether to pursue a broad scope of study or delve into certain subject areas in more detail.

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.

His son had started using drugs, had gotten into trouble with the law, and was struggling in school.

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.

Backing up, just anyone with a high school education nor with just even so - so marks in University can get into law school nor medical school in the first place.

Correction Third paragraph, twelve lines down should read: «Backing up, just anyone with a high school education or even a University education with only so - so marks «can not» get into law school or medical school in the first place.»