Sentences with phrase «law schools and students»

As law schools and students pursuing law multiply, the traditional elitist finishing schools face increasing competition from bright, innovative upstarts.

Robert Gill, LawWorks chief executive, says: «The new law schools student post will provide a central resource enabling LawWorks to assist and coordinate law schools and students who wish to extend and / or develop pro bono services.»

The portal is targeted at law firms, local and international businesses, law schools and their students, and covers countries often overlooked by such initiatives.

They recognise the commitment of law schools and students to providing pro bono legal advice.

Similarly, law schools and students themselves often portray their career choice in the dichotomy of public interest versus private gain — sometimes with the idea that one side is virtuous and one side is bad.

And — keep in mind — that the broader system in which law schools and students find themselves is, itself, broken.

There will be other upsides from a career perspective as law firms, in - house counsel, law schools and students themselves adjust to legal automation.

One thing is clear: A reactive approach to technology disruption will put legal firms, law schools and students on the back foot.

Howarth, who had yet develop her Facebook prowess (came with her attending a day long MSU Law social media bootcamp), empowered change and the use of social media — as a gift to the law school and its students — whether she knew it or not.

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The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

He added that he would ask for $ 500 million in mental - health and school - safety initiatives, and he called for a law - enforcement officer in every public school and for mandatory «active - shooter training» for students and faculty.

For students wishing to combine business and law, the school offers a joint MBA and JD (juris doctor).

Combined (including Dalhousie law and the soon - to - be-settled school of education), they comprise 15,000 students and more than 2,500 faculty, have annual spending of $ 270 million, occupy 1.6 million square feet and give out 6,000 scholarships.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

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Although women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1988, they have earned at least a third of law degrees since 1980, were fully a third of medical school students by 1990, and, since 2002, have outnumbered men in earning undergraduate business degrees since 2002.

«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.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during claLaw School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during clalaw and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

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Christopher Buchanan is an articling student at Miller Thomson LLP, and while at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, he made sleep a priority.

The Feb. 14 massacre is the worst school shooting in Florida history and sparked nationwide outrage, a wave of student activism and a law restricting gun sales.

After the shooting, there has been heightened security on campus, as staff and law enforcement officers have kept a close watch on the school that houses 3,000 students.

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Teenagers are forcing lawmakers to consider changing their state gun laws — demanding action after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 17 students dead and added to the list of instances where people have opened fire on school grounds in 2018.

High school students across Florida staged walkouts and protests to show solidarity and demand tougher state and federal gun laws.

The John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program provides up to $ 10,000 per year of law school loan repayment for state and federal public defenders and state prosecutors who agree to remain employed as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

Vitalik Buterin has partnered with CCRG founding directors Aaron White, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York, and Kieren James - Lubin, a PhD student in mathematical physics at the University of Berkley in California.

Students and parents walked Sunday through gates that had been locked to all but law enforcement and school officials since the Valentine's Day shooting, collecting backpacks and other belongings left behind as they fled the massacre.

The sweeping and bipartisan law is named after Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a former student, Nikolas Cruz, was charged with launching the massacre on Feb. 14.

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Students at thousands of schools across the United States walked out of class Wednesday morning to pressure Congress and state lawmakers to pass gun control laws.

They are both renowned students and teachers of the Hanbali school of law.

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Catholic News Agency: Stanford Law School inaugurates religious liberty clinic Beginning this term, students at Stanford Law School have the opportunity to gain knowledge and real - world experience by participating in the nation's first religious liberty clinic.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

North Korea has strict laws about Christian evangelism so the school doesn't teach doctrine, but does teach its students about other countries and other forms of government — something you can't get almost anywhere else in North Korea.

I saw sensitivity in the way he treated students, and I believe that his legal opinions — even those with which I disagree — often betray the same,» said University of Colorado Law School's Dayna Bowen Matthew, who hired Gorsuch as an adjunct professor.

On almost every campus I visited, including elite law schools like Stanford and NYU, students came up to me afterwards to say that they had never heard a rational case for marriage.

Most of these students had returned to school after some significant work experience — in such diverse fields as teaching, politics, law, securities, real estate and graphic design.

By the time the average theological student begins to think about a religious profession (at age 24.6 years), the average medical student is already in medical school and the average law student has taken the LSAT exams.

By sharp contrast, almost all law students (85 percent) make multiple applications; only 46 percent are attending their first - choice school; and 87 percent of those not attending first - choice schools say those schools did not accept them.

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The Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey (where I work) is now accepting applications for six summer seminars, on topics ranging across ethics, politics, law, medicine, philosophy, and religion, for every age cohort from high school to post-baccalaureate students.

He had put himself and his first wife through professional school (she, a Ph.D. physiologist; he, a law student on the law review) by working as a Customs Inspector, a droll occupation for a political radical.

They attended a school - board meeting in October 1993 where they distributed material citing federal laws and court rulings upholding the rights of pregnant students to participate in public school extracurricular activities.

I had gotten a law school education by osmosis, and one of the first things law students learn is «Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.»

The Coalition is calling for a one - day strike of professors and students at Harvard Law School in order to advance «the issue of «normalization,» or making our school look more like the society in which we live.&School in order to advance «the issue of «normalization,» or making our school look more like the society in which we live.&school look more like the society in which we live.»