Sentences with phrase «hard for law students»

When creating or editing a fact - based resume, it is sometimes hard for law students to decide how to word particular experiences.

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A city Law Department spokesman noted that even though the court ruled against James, «our schools are working hard to address the air conditioning issue for students.»

An investigator for a non-profit law firm told us he enrolled in Saving Schools to better understand his clients: «I am most interested in learning about the forces in American education that... graduate significantly underperforming students that too often end up serving adult hard time, or losing their lives, in correctional facilities».

In California, school officials «fought so hard to block the claims of a student that Judge Oliver W. Wanger of United States District Court took 83 pages to berate the district's «hard - line position» and its law firm for «willfully and vexatiously» dragging out the case so long that the former student is now 24.»

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has pushed the hardest, enacting a law that removes the cap on the number of charter schools in his state, authorizes all universities to register charters and expands an existing voucher program in the state for students to attend private and charter schools (in some cases managed by for - profit companies).

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

CER is a trusted advisor to policymakers across the states, and has worked hard with legislators to write laws that allow the growth of choice for the nation's students and their families.

For law students, assignment writing becomes a very hard task.

Writing law dissertation is amongst the hardest tasks to accomplish for university students everywhere.

One of the most disturbing trends I have watched over the past years are those students that work hard to obtain advanced degrees in specialized fields such as law and medicine but what they discover along the way is that the field really isn't for them.

The company's zeal for the task has led it to hound cancer survivors and other unfortunate, hard - working souls, and has reshaped the relationship between student loans and bankruptcy law in ways that exacerbate the country's trillion - dollar student loan problem.

«Halting and dismantling these common - sensesafeguards will leave taxpayers holding the bag when schools commit fraud or close suddenly, make it easier for unscrupulous schools to defraud students and evade accountability, make it harder for defrauded students to get their loans discharged as provided under the law, and funnel taxpayer dollars to programs that consistently leave students buried in debt they can not repay.

But even though laws make it hard to discharge your loans, they still allow for some recourse where people won't ever be able to repay their student loans.

It is hard to believe that, for a similar aggregate sum, CanLII could not be improved to the point that it would provide many of the same services to law students — with the difference that those improvements be available to all and on an ongoing basis.

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.

The world of Law schools is hard - core for many students.

«Lakehead has many exceptional people and groups working hard to promote and facilitate an inclusive culture for all members of our diverse University community, including, among others, our Office of Human Rights & Equity, our Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, our chair on Truth & Reconciliation, our Ogimaawin - Aboriginal Governance Council, our Faculty of Law's Aboriginal Advisory Committee, the President's Advisory Council on Truth & Reconciliation, Lakehead's Anti-Racism Committee, Lakehead's Aboriginal Education department, as well as the Lakehead University Student Union's Pride Central, Gender Issues Centre, Aboriginal Awareness Centre and Multicultural Centre.»

Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193

For a law student, that money can be hard to turn down.

And here's a bunch of law students who are making demands that might make it even harder for big firms to remain competitive without ever once considering whether these changes will make BigLaw so prohibitively expensive that firms will lose even more clients to boutiques.

«It has come to the attention of your anonymous Editor that some lawyers, law students, and law professors would like to be contributors to Blawg Review, but are worried about losing clients, getting hard - marked, or jeopardizing tenure... To enable everyone to be a contributor to Blawg Review, without fear or favor, there is now a convenient submission form created by blogcarnival.com for Blawg Review, so you don't have to use your regular email, if you like the new form.

We argue that the recommendation that targets what we teach at law school is a moment for looking broadly at how we offer law students diverse opportunities for engaging with the hardest questions a society can ask of itself.

Our post here Monday, A Cold Slap for Law Students, discussed that day's Wall Street Journal report on the sad state of the legal job market, Hard Case: Job Market Wanes for U.S. Lawyers.

[Hard to believe that many of the Fort Lauderdale high - school Law Magnet students and 7 - 8th grade Juvenile Street Law Participants have been local lawyers for a few years now.

The main tip for new law students is to be prepared to work hard but not to be put off by the challenges of a law degree.

«The students have been working really hard in their groups to design and build tools that can be used by a range of not - for - profit centres associated with UNSW Law,» the course convenor Associate Professor Lyria Bennet Moses said.