Sentences with phrase «just as law students»

Wannabes would be hired on an articling basis after successfully completing rigid schooling, just as law students fresh out of law school are taken on.

Not exact matches

It is, of course, governed by democratic laws (including federal Civil Rights laws), just as are the private clubs like those remaining in Philadelphia, Augusta, etc., or those set up by college students — sororities, fraternities, or the sort of club in the SOCIAL NETWORK which provokes such envious emotions in Mark Zuckerberg.

No one is forcing you to work for a Catholic Hospital, just as the Islamic Students are filing a law suit against a Catholic University because of their religious images, then why would you go there if your Islamic?

But British justice in which he trained as a law student in London failed in India and as an Indian or Hindu he utilized love and strategy to force justice to cede power and become more just.

«We have matched the needs and skills of the Columbia Law Students with the needs of the smaller municipalities, like Boston and Evans, the Erie County Clerk's foreclosure data, and the Law Center's expertise to create a project that is beneficial not just to the parties involved but to our Western New York community as a whole.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

Parker Sawyers plays the future president when he was still just a charismatic law student, with Tika Sumpter co-starring as the future first lady, his superior at the Chicago law firm where he worked during the summer of 1989.

The concern was that some states would be starting with such low percentages of minority students at grade level that just requiring that as a starting point would subject the law to ridicule for having embarrassingly low standards.

Similarly, in Vergara, there may be measures that school districts could take to reduce the burdens of ineffective teachers on low - income students, but such measures are costly, increase with the number of low - income students and, as in Serrano, those costs are just another form of burden placed by state law on low - income schools and districts.

One positive note is that federal law now requires school districts to publicly report on per - student spending at the individual school level, not just at the district level as previously required.

NCSECS advocated and helped influence the law including a provision raising the bar a bit higher to ensure high standards for special education students by limiting their participation in tests based on alternate (lower) academic achievement standards to 1 % of students tested (and not just limiting the reporting of their scores on such tests, as was done under NCLB).

President Obama just signed into law the bipartisan, bicameral bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177).

-- The New York Times editorial board says the Obama administration's gainful employment rule should apply to not just for - profit colleges but nonprofits as well, to help stop law schools from admitting unqualified students while loading them with student debt.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

Persis Yu, director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center, called the GAO report a demonstration of «just how draconian these [garnishments] are» as well as exposing issues with the policies themselves.

Also, will Obama's new student loan plan apply to my graduate (law School) loans as well as my under - graduate loans or will they just apply to my under - graduate loans?

Not just understand it well enough to say lots of nifty words about it — well enough to start from the basic empirical laws and principles and derive and demonstrate nearly the whole thing through the introductory classical level at the blackboard, without notes, as I do several times a year in front of several hundred very bright students a year, working with a team of Ph.D. physicists who are my co-instructors (with perhaps a century of teaching experience between us who, one would think, would correct my errors if I made any egregious ones along the way).

As for CANLII, it should by now I hope be considered as a real alternative to the commerical products, and as law students need to know how to use it and what it is good for, just like we have always done for the commercial vendorAs for CANLII, it should by now I hope be considered as a real alternative to the commerical products, and as law students need to know how to use it and what it is good for, just like we have always done for the commercial vendoras a real alternative to the commerical products, and as law students need to know how to use it and what it is good for, just like we have always done for the commercial vendoras law students need to know how to use it and what it is good for, just like we have always done for the commercial vendors.

I think they were all fairly non-descript, but maybe I just wasn't paying as close attention as some law students do these days.

«Blogs written by lawyers, judges, law professors and law students that provide solid information and critical analysis on subjects the authors know something about are just as authoritative as other secondary sources.»

As part of our law school & careers content, Charles R. Toy, Associate Dean of Career and Professional Development, Western Michigan University - Cooley Law School, here lists 5 top tips for job hunting, whether you're a student who has just qualified, or a lawyer looking to take the leap to another line of work or filaw school & careers content, Charles R. Toy, Associate Dean of Career and Professional Development, Western Michigan University - Cooley Law School, here lists 5 top tips for job hunting, whether you're a student who has just qualified, or a lawyer looking to take the leap to another line of work or fiLaw School, here lists 5 top tips for job hunting, whether you're a student who has just qualified, or a lawyer looking to take the leap to another line of work or firm.

By Stephanie Sundheimer Just as not everyone is cut out for law school, not every law school student is cut out for every type of law.

She just uses them outside the courtroom and on behalf of students.Maerowitz advises students and their families on the college and graduate school admissions processes, including those for law school, as a partner

Of course, there's always the down the middle angle: it just means there are less law students, but they will still have the same wide range of views as every other law school class.

Because Sacramento is the state capital of California we had a very robust and well - thought - through field placement program where students would have the opportunity to extern in either state government or regulatory agencies or otherwise in what I call the hub - and - spoke model where they would go out into their field placement, come back into a hub, discuss, process, analyze under supervision either the ethical issues they were facing in those environments or other practice issues, and I think that helps prepare them for the transition into life beyond law school as well as allowing them to create the opportunities to meet people in those working environments, understand what it meant beyond the law school to be in that working environment, beyond just a kind of summer type of experience.

But the post applies just as well to law students gearing up for interview season (particularly someone this unlucky student described here) as well as lawyers looking to lateral to other firms.

One of the selling points for the change was that, just as some professionals can brag «I'm in Law» or «I'm in Engineering», students and graduates could brag «I'm in Information!»

I recall as a law student having to attend a number of cocktail parties at law firms when applying for jobs, and we all knew we were being assessed for our «fit» in that environment just as much as we were at the formal interviews.

There is a lot of material that will be unfamiliar to law students — not just the accounting and financial terms, but information on operations, marketing, and strategy, as well.

Why do our law professors, both alone and in collaboration with others, continue to prepare and publish casebooks commercially when there are so many alternatives that are just as effective and would cost their students nothing?

JM: As noted above, Touro Law Center has incorporated courses into the curriculum that address the technology that will be available to our students and provide resources that were unavailable just 5 - 10 years ago.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturelaw schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturelaw), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturelaw faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal cultureLaw and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturelaw together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

Proper guidance of an articling student or junior lawyer requires endless explanation of the law, heart - to - heart conversations about anything and everything, marking up memos and correcting draft documents, taking the junior to court appearances or client meetings (and maybe lunch), introducing the idea of law as a business as well as a profession, helping resolve complex ethical issues that sometimes arise — and that's just the half of it.

«The increasing — exponentially increasing — tuition costs for law students is a problem not just for us as students but is a problem for the profession, in terms of who is able to enter the profession and wants to graduate from law school.»

One difference between Legally Minded and other lawyer - networking sites such as Legal OnRamp and Martindale - Hubbell Connected is that it is not just for lawyers, but for any legal professional including paralegals, law librarians and law students.

(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.

Yet they did not feel the need for radical change to their teaching and learning practices; they relied on academic librarians to impart these skills.2 They felt this was justified on the grounds that, as one law professor stated, students had limited time available, had difficulty working independently, and would perhaps «get more confused and... just throw a lot of stuff in?

If such options are designated only for Flex Time law students, moreover, this distinction may give rise to stigma or a «second tier» impression for Flex Time students, just as «night school» legal education in the US often is referred to as less rigorous and of lower quality than «day programs.»

Many law students conceptualize their education solely as «learning the law,» but the tertiary skills that come along the way can be just as important.

Any good business student will know that there's more to business and entrepreneurship than simply buying and selling, but savvy business people know that it's just as important for them to have a solid understanding of business law.

While our hosts Ari Kaplan, Rob Robinson, Doug Austin and Robin Thompson are prolific and accomplished online professionals, we expect to learn just as much from our law student attendees as our hosts.

Outside the law school context, writing center scholars have long debated whether generalist tutors (those that are not expert, or even conversant, in the writer's subject matter) can provide the right amount of feedback.105 Some believe generalist tutors are the ideal, because «the ignorant tutor, by virtue of her ignorance, is just as likely — perhaps even more likely — than the expert to help the student recognize what must be stated in the text.»

«Just as actually practising environmental law was seen as a pipe dream of law students in the»60s and»70s, but then became a reality for thousands of lawyers, animal law may become more than just law school courses and philosophical debaJust as actually practising environmental law was seen as a pipe dream of law students in the»60s and»70s, but then became a reality for thousands of lawyers, animal law may become more than just law school courses and philosophical debajust law school courses and philosophical debates.

With the new fall term just beginning, and thousands of first - year law students across the country entering upon legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently practislaw students across the country entering upon legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently practisLaw Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently practised.

The Clinic views its educational mission as one in which students do not just learn the law, they help make the law.

Most law graduates begin their career by working in small - to medium - sized firms, so whether just starting law school or preparing to graduate, law students should join the GPSolo Law Student Committee as a stepping stone in their careelaw graduates begin their career by working in small - to medium - sized firms, so whether just starting law school or preparing to graduate, law students should join the GPSolo Law Student Committee as a stepping stone in their careelaw school or preparing to graduate, law students should join the GPSolo Law Student Committee as a stepping stone in their careelaw students should join the GPSolo Law Student Committee as a stepping stone in their careeLaw Student Committee as a stepping stone in their careers.

Just as minority students struggle with the LSAT due to its demand for speed, they may similarly struggle with law school exams.

Law schools did a great job of terrifying students out of acting like themselves, so as lawyers, it became difficult to just act human.

It has been disconcerting to learn that students are now rarely taught the significance of a reported decision — a case from the Dominion Law Reports is viewed the same as any other and DLR is just another cite.

On a personal note, it's encouraging for me to see a law school finally paying attention to social psychology (and I can only hope that Yale and other schools will start thinking about individual psychology as well): it has always struck me as completely bizarre that although there is a tacit assumption that law has something to do with human conduct and is not just an exercise in art — if, as Shelley says, poets can be legislators, then lawyers can be poets — there is not one moment spent in a student's legal education in exploring the nature of the human actor.