Sentences with phrase «law school he focused»

Law school focuses on learning the law, yet a significant portion of your legal life is based, not around digesting legal concepts, but by putting together tangible work product.
I am currently a graduate member of CILEX after completing a course of study with CILEX Law School focussing on civil litigation and conveyancing.
Next, Professor Susan Duncan summarized key developments in the standards governing American law schools focusing on those that directly impact the teaching of legal writing.
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
Law school focuses on the logic and reasoning, when being skilled in diplomacy (either by natural talent or by learned psychology) is important in most legal proceedings.
While in law school he focused on litigation practice courses specifically designed to enhance understanding of the practical application of the law.
I think that this goal can be more easily achieved and the curriculum offerings enriched if law schools focused more on the work that solicitors do.
Wright moved across town to the University of Toronto where he created a law school focused on academic legal theory.
As I have frequently stated on Slaw, the principal problem I see is that law schools focus excessively on appellate litigation and not enough on the work of solicitors, i.e., the work that the bulk of the profession will perform.
Two recent reports — Best Practices for Legal Education: A Vision and a Road Map, 6 published by the Clinical Legal Education Association (Best Practices) and Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, 7 published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie Report)-- advocate that law schools focus more on teaching professionalism, skills, and ethics and on integrating these topics into the traditional curriculum.
It seems like a great movement in law schools focusing on smaller firms or solos.
Should law schools focus more on the emergent job market?
Universities maintain — with good reason — that they have an academic mission that precludes their law schools focusing only on producing practicing lawyers.

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From the time he graduated from Howard Law School, he had one plan: to run his own media company with a multicultural focus.
«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.
Almost everyone I've seen as an in house labor and employment attorney has done similar work for a law firm but most have not focused on this aspect of law in school or have a theoretical grounding in labor and employment issues.
The intensifying regulatory environment has led more law schools to offer executive education programs that focus on law, ethics and compliance.
The remarkable preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.
In this corner we have Professor Randall Thomas of Vanderbilt Law School who said this approach made sense because it «lends itself to allowing these nominees, if elected, to focus on independent decision - making and fulfilling their fiduciary obligations on behalf of shareholders.»
She attended Northeastern University Law School with a focus on social justice issues.
Ms. McBride received her law degree from George Washington University Law School and her Master's Degree in Evaluative Clinical Sciences (a program focused on health policy considerations of clinical outcomes) from Dartmouth Collelaw degree from George Washington University Law School and her Master's Degree in Evaluative Clinical Sciences (a program focused on health policy considerations of clinical outcomes) from Dartmouth ColleLaw School and her Master's Degree in Evaluative Clinical Sciences (a program focused on health policy considerations of clinical outcomes) from Dartmouth College.
And the measure would have schools consult with state law enforcement officials at the Division of Criminal Justices to create a model curriculum focused on gang violence prevention.
The very day after Silver was arrested, Bharara gave a talk at New York Law School where he urged people to focus their outrage and join him in taking on the culture of corruption in Albany.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Illinois» 13th.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Texas» 23rd.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd, 2012 focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for New York's 18th.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Minnesota's 8th.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Florida's 18th.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for California's 36th.
«As I said during the campaign, I intend to focus on important fiscal and environmental issues, and to make sure we're doing all we can to have safer schools and sensible gun reform laws,» Clements added.
Police and federal officials, though, countered that they remain focused on curtailing a gang that preys on immigrants and said the steps they take are based on evidence.The report by the New York Immigration Coalition and the Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law warns about the danger of law - enforcement agencies slipping into profiling and discriminatory policing.&raqLaw warns about the danger of law - enforcement agencies slipping into profiling and discriminatory policing.&raqlaw - enforcement agencies slipping into profiling and discriminatory policing.»
In a letter to members of the NRA and the Unified Sportsmen of Florida, posted online Wednesday by Ammoland, Hammer focused her wrath on GOP lawmakers — particularly Sen. Doug Broxson of the Panhandle town of Gulf Breeze — who supported the sweeping measure (SB 7026), which was rushed into law shortly after the Feb. 14 deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Seven of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker of the New York City Council convened at New York Law School on Monday night for a forum focused on government reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.
«They want to focus on Washington instead of the fact that she supported the use of taxpayer money to cover up sexual harassment and abuse in the State Assembly, she approved of seating Hiram Monserrate in the State Senate even though he slashed his girlfriend in the face and caused a wound so deep it required 20 stitches to close and she wrote the law that sent $ 373 million in Westchester's state school aid to New York City.»
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.
A graduate of the Tulane University School of Law, Minerva has focused his areas of practice in securities law, shareholder derivative and consumer class action litigatiLaw, Minerva has focused his areas of practice in securities law, shareholder derivative and consumer class action litigatilaw, shareholder derivative and consumer class action litigation.
At the New York Law School, Bratton also defended broken windows, which calls for a focus on small, so - called «quality of life offenses» to prevent larger crimes — and wouldn't even consider one attendee's calls during the question - answer - session to do away with the practice.
Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Arizona's 1st.
«What you saw is the government being forced, post-Skilling to really pitch a case as a bribe case, without focusing on a failure - to - disclose theory,» said Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School.
Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.
The school board has approved turning the school into one focused on public service and law enforcement.
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, venture capital firms, scientific consulting firms, medical and scientific journals, law firms dealing in intellectual property, science - focused nonprofit organizations and foundations, government agencies, and K — 12 schools are among the «alternative» career options the speakers mentioned.
The approach allows researchers to «actually come up with a valid estimate of the rate of false convictions — knowing something that people say [in criminal justice] is not knowable,» says study author Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration databalaw professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration databaLaw School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration database.
When Swift graduates in May, she plans to take a year or two off to focus on expanding Young Inventors, before going to law school or graduate school for economics with an eye toward working in intellectual property.
One of these studies focused on recent law school graduates preparing for the bar examination and two others centered on college students who were preparing for difficult pre-med science examinations.
So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigation.
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I am a recent graduate of law school, and now that I have my career on track, I am excited to now focus on my personal life.
Chris «Ludacris» Bridges narrates Ward Serrill's inspirational documentary, which focuses on Bill Resler, a professor of tax law at the University of Washington, who takes up a position as women's basketball coach at nearby Roosevelt High School.
For generations, they have been able to control policy change by focusing attention on the adults in the schools through the contract bargaining process, through labor laws in the legislature and through a supportive media environment.
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