Sentences with phrase «law school dean»

«It's our largest donation; it's the largest individual donation in our university's $ 1.5 - billion dollar [fundraising] campaign, and it's the largest donation to legal education in Canada ever,» says law school dean Mary Anne Bobinski about the latest gift.

In her remarks in the program accompanying the symposium, Robson Hall law school dean Lorna Turnbull noted, «our ethical standards are at the heart of our professional identities, wherever our law degrees may have taken us over our careers.

«Law societies are extremely slapdash about all aspects of their disciplinary proceedings,» remarks Philip Slayton, a former Bay Street lawyer, law school dean, author of Lawyers Gone Bad and Canadian Lawyer columnist.

My Osgoode Hall Law School dean (1961 - 64), H. Allan Leal, was by that time the Chair of the OLRC.

Also honored is Judge Richard Posner, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals Judith Kaye, former Solicitor General Seth Waxman, and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh.

According to Fischer - Baum, the highest - paid state official in the Pine Tree State is a law school dean.

Before becoming a law school dean, I was fortunate to serve as Suffolk Law's inaugural director of our Institute on Legal Innovation and Technology and the related concentration in the area.

Osgoode Hall Law School dean Lorne Sossin advocates more hands - on learning in legal education.

The following year we debated the future of the legal profession in light of Richard Susskind's book The End of Lawyers, and despite being teamed up with the inestimable intellect of UVic law school dean Donna Greschner, and the two of us giving away free dinosaur toys to all the attendees in an attempt to bribe them, we were trounced by University of British Columbia law dean Mary Anne Bobinski and her partner in crime, litigator, rock star and Paul McCartney's good friend, Michal Bain (who tires of being described as the «Bain» of my existence).

There has long been discussion that legal education needs to be reformed, but slow to respond to the debate have been the bodies regulating lawyers, says Harry Arthurs, former Osgoode Hall Law School dean and former LSUC bencher.

An internet ad for a law school dean would likely be placed on websites frequented by those in the academy, and those in the academy might not know the best websites to attract candidates outside the academy.

So the Center kicked off in September 2016 and the Center for Innovation is one of the recommendations that came out of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services report and that recommendation was adopted by the ABA Board of Governors and we kicked off this fall and that's as Ed had mentioned that we're both involved with that, that's another group where when we attend those meetings I feel like a child sitting at the grown - ups table with the individuals who are involved with — general counsel from some of the largest companies in the world, law school dean, just amazing group of people.

To put it in crass terms, I doubt a law school Dean ever gave a professor an endowed chair, or a raise, or a research leave — or whatever else Deans can sometimes give professors for top job performance — in recognition of the professor's outstanding contributions to the blogosphere.

«We like to say in the accountability sphere that anything that raises the profile is good,» says Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin, who took on the integrity commissioner job on an interim basis between Mullan's retirement and Leiper's appointment.

As we told you last week, an investigation into the office by University of St. Thomas Law School dean Thomas Mengler concluded with a report last Tuesday that effectively sided with Swanson.

It was big news last week when Northwestern Law School Dean David Van Zandt announced he'd be stepping down to take over as president of the New School.

Author: Nancy Rapoport, a former law school dean, is a law professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

This is simply a pointer to an open letter sent to the Minister of Justice and the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs by Osgoode Hall Law School Dean, Lorne Sossin, and Professor Sonia Lawrence over on Dean Sossin's Blog.

This is not the best time to be a law school dean — which is not to say that law schools deserve a bit of sympathy.

Especially those of Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and Justice Elena Kagan.

If every Biglaw partner, law professor, and law school dean read this book and followed its prescriptions, we just might get our profession back on track.

My old Law School Dean Edwards (Manitoba) used to continually say to us: «Nothing is really new under the Sun».

Failing Law Schools is a rational, unassailable indictment by a consummate insider; it should be required reading for every law school dean.

Lots more to talk about, and if you go to HYPERLINK «http://www.ambar.org/cwpresources» ambar.org/cwpresources, it's all there, because we know that although women constitute a-third of the profession, there are only a-fifth of law firm partners, a-fifth of general counsel at Fortune 500 companies, and law school dean and for women of color, they only occupy 2 % of large law firm equity partnerships.

In June, she was the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association Award of Excellence recipient, and in May she was awarded the Osgoode Hall Law School Dean's Alumni Gold Key Award.

But in the nomination of Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan to be solicitor general, reactions vary according to proximity to Langdell Hall.

This first charter class received their degrees from Canada's first Indigenous law school dean, Professor Angelique Eaglewoman and completed a program with mandatory Aboriginal Law classes.

Sovern's villain is fictional law school dean «Leslie,» who woos potential students with the school's secure spot high in the rankings, then confides to «Lee,» a professor, that the school can not afford to spend more on educating the students who are already there.

«Driving this effort is a shared belief that the law should be free and open to all,» said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow.

Law school dean and chairwoman of the Council of Canadian Law Deans, Camille Cameron, took to the podium to give the Dalhousie community an update on their alma mater, including building renovations, faculty retirements and that the Indigenous Blacks and Mi» kmaq initiative, launched in 1989, will graduate its 200th student in Dal's 200th year.

Today, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced the long - awaited replacement for Harry S. Martin, who has been director of the Harvard law Library -LRB-(Which is the most extraordinary law library I've ever used, with due apologies to Ruth at the Bodleian and David at the Great Library)-RRB- for 27 years.

At Georgetown, an official statement quoted law school Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff:

A local law school Dean recently commented that women seem to be backsliding in the legal profession.

Outgoing AALS president Paul Marcus of the William & Mary Law School organized the opening plenary on access to justice where he was joined by Cara Drinan of Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, Associate Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn of the Virginia Supreme Court, veteran legal aid attorney and former executive director of Bay Area Legal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow.

For Fordham Law School dean William Treanor, the news of Justice John Paul Stevens» retirement brought to mind a poignant memory about Stevens and his relationship with his appointing president Gerald Ford.

Some have a lot of clout, such as the ABA in the US (which even sets out requirements for law libraries in universities to be independent of the university library and report direct to the law school Dean).

You'll hear about the senior litigation counsel at Apple who pursues astronomy in his free time, the UC Hastings Law School dean who has a passion for Honda Hawk motorcycles, and the legal recruiter who moonlights as a standup comedian.

That concerns Erwin Chemerinsky, law school dean at the University of California at Irvine and a prominent critic of the scandal.

Among the likely candidates are 7th U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Wood, 2nd U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm.

Imagine you're a law school dean at a traditional non-profit third - tier school.

In the words of Harvard Law School Dean, Elena Kagan, quoted in the article, «When you haven't changed your curriculum in 150 years, at some point you look around.»

ne in five law school dean positions, 45 % of law school associate or deputy dean positions, and 66 % of assistant dean positions.

«An unexpected, positive finding was the high per centage of lawyers - 46.7 per cent in 2009 - who provide some level of pro bono or free legal services,» says Osgoode Hall Law School dean Lorne Sossin.

«CBS» featured Law School Dean David Yassky in «NYC Lawmakers Propose «Right To Disconnect» Legislation»

Several hundred people also attended the panel «Religion Matters: HDS at Harvard University» on Friday, which was moderated by Divinity School Dean David Hempton and featured Law School Dean Martha L. Minow, Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, and Graduate School of Education Dean James E. Ryan.

National Research Council, «A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools: From Impressions to Evidence,» a report prepared by the Committee on the Evaluation of the D.C. Public Schools, co-chaired by Christopher Edley, UC Berkeley Law School dean, and Robert Hauser, executive director of the NRC's Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

As urban legend has it, a Harvard Law School dean walked into an orientation for incoming students and told them to, «Look to your left and then look to your right, because one of you won't be here by the end of the year.»

These referees were a Fordham Law School dean and two retired New York judges, none with any particular expertise in school finance.

It was chaired by the respected former Fordham Law School Dean John Feerick, and it issued several reports with recommendations for change that were widely praised at the time by reform groups and newspaper editorials.

Bartoletti, with the League of Women voters, says the reform panel looking into JCOPE, is made up of «irreproachable» appointees, including it's chair, former Albany Law School Dean and now Dean of the Touro Law School, Patricia Salkin.