Sentences with phrase «law school deans»

At the welcoming lunch on my first day of law school our dean told a story.

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

New Yorker and former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan is reportedly President Obama's US Supreme Court pick.

«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.

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

Cherkasky replaced John Feerick, the former Fordham law school dean who was appointed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to head the CPI when it was created by merging the erstwhile Lobbying and Ethics Commissions.

Those qualitative assessments are based on feedback from law school deans, law faculty, and practicing attorneys, who rate programs on a scale of 1, for marginal, to 5, for outstanding.

Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin said that if there is indeed an increase in incivility, it's more likely tied to the decrease in mentorship for upcoming lawyers compared with a generation ago.

If the committee wants to address with law school deans the preparedness of new law graduates to pass the licensing exam, then they should do so.

So what about law school deans who have engaged in misrepresentation (by omission, perhaps) for years?

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.

They are a distinguished presence across American legal education, and two have gone on to serve as law school deans.

«Take former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh,» Lithwick writes.

There is also a peer assessment score factored into the ranking, as rated by law school deans.

Bartoletti said the reform panel looking into JCOPE is made up of «irreproachable» appointees, including its chair, former Albany Law School Dean and now Dean of the Touro Law School, Patricia Salkin.

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.

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.

The igniter sessions begin with a short talk by speakers such as Vanderbilt Law School Dean Chris Guthrie, Lawton Penn of Davis Wright Tremaine, and Shawna Hoffman and Brian Kuhn of IBM.

This, after all, is the man who brought you the hottest law school deans and America's hottest ERISA lawyers.

However, law school deans tend to lack vision when it comes to this topic and only a few law professors would be qualified to teach it (although many law librarians could; however, most law schools in Canada fail to recognize the law librarian's Master degree as making them qualified to teach credit courses at law school).

Mark Cohen will be spending the day with Northwestern Law School Dean Dan Rodriguez and his senior administration team to discuss advances in curriculum reform that bridge the gap between law school and the marketplace.

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.

wo years ago, Vanderbilt Law School Dean Guthrie inaugurated the Program on Law and Innovation «designed to equip Vanderbilt Law students to become innovators who successfully navigate and influence the directions in which these changes take law and the legal industry throughout their careers.»

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.

At 8:15 a.m., U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, introduced by New York Law School Dean Anthony W. Crowell, speaks during an event organized by the school's Center for New York City Law as part of the center's «CityLaw Breakfast Series»; event center, second floor, 185 W. Broadway, Manhattan.

Former Moreland Commission member and SUNY Buffalo Law School dean Makau Mutua told the Wall Street Journal in April this year that the commission had found potentially criminal offenses by about a dozen lawmakers as part of its work.

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.»

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.

The AccessLex Legal Education Research Symposium offers law school deans, administrators, faculty and researchers from across the nation the opportunity to engage in thought - provoking discussions on the most critical issues facing legal education today.

That, of course, was the situation for former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan, who made national news last year when she failed the California bar exam and who again made the news this week when she passed the exam.

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.

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.

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

Glassmeyer may be right that the legal academe has stifled education, but with applications dropping, many law schools in the red, and law jobs in short supply, it looks like more and more law school deans and professors are going to be willing to try something new, anyway.

I've posted here about the decision by Boston College Law School Dean John Garvey to invite U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to be commencement speaker and some of the subsequent controversy.

American law school deans have long chafed at library expenditures.

Among those exploring the need for reform of legal education are several highly regarded law school deans and legal educators.

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

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.

Until that happens, the HBCU law school deans will fight its adoption and urge the ABA to thoroughly re-examine its necessity.

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.

In a forward, Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Irvine law school dean - to - be, sums up what he sees as the symposium's stark conclusion:

«Building up our needs - based financial program is the key funding priority for this chapter at the law school, and I am excited at the prospect of supporting Indigenous students attending the Faculty of Law with the help of their gift,» law school dean Edward Iacobucci said in the release.

Today, the business of law focuses law school deans and practitioners in big law firms on something else: maximizing immediate profits for their institutions.

This claim has caused some consternation for existing law school deans, who have said they are continuing to evolve and offer innovative curricula.