Sentences with phrase «law schools as»

It is a mistake to ignore the fact that judges attended the exact same law schools as those lawyers who argue before them, and are therefore in the same deficient situation when it comes to problem - solving skills.

Here are the Top 20 law schools as listed in the 2016 U.S. News Law School Ranking (with changes from last year noted in brackets):

Put another way, we have been growing the number of law schools as though the demand for lawyers would permanently continue to experience exponential growth, whereas in fact it follows the classic natural growth S - curve.

In a country as large as the United States and one boasting as many law schools as it has, the attraction of ranking is almost irresistible.

They referred to a 1986 speech by Chief Justice Dickson, where he described law schools as the gatekeepers of the profession who ensure the best candidates are chosen, including minority groups and those from difficult economic circumstances.

For example, the benchers inquired with the UVic and UBC law schools as to whether any TWU undergrads had subsequent disciplinary issues at law school.

The story on Whittier in the NYT is here.As I said in 2012,» [t] he world doesn't need as many ABA - accredited law schools as it has already, just as the world has figured out that it doesn't need as many U.S. - based BigLaw firms as...

Langille points to the law schools as a major cause of the articling crisis.

The Task Force recommends that participants in the legal education system, but particularly law schools, universities, the Section of Legal Education, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal education.

This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as legal academics and lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and how people access legal education, where and how people learn about law, and where and how people solve the problems that matter most in their lives.

We do, however, work closely with interns from local law schools as well as schools around the country.

Most of them run internal competitions within their own law schools as training for the national competition and to get more students involved.

Is this just an anomaly or is this happening in other law schools as well?

If legal employment has undergone structural change that depresses job prospects, the implications for law schools as we now know them are obvious.

But for law schools as a whole it's still a work in progress.

He contends that law schools as institutions are places of privilege and people don't realize how offensive their remarks can be.

It is under siege — though one would not think so were one to spend time at law schools as I have.

On the other hand, the Carnegie Report characterizes United States law schools as doing a better job at handling the intellectual training or apprenticeship required for nascent lawyers.

There is no reason to presume that Evangelical Christian students will suddenly stop going to other Law schools as they have in the past.

Elizabeth is a frequent contributor and panellist for the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and various law schools as she is a recognised networking and job searching expert.

To those prospective law students applying to law schools as a fallback in a bad economy, or because you want three more years to figure out what to do with your life: please save yourself time, money, and a huge amount of stress; do not apply to law school.

And conservative lawyers love to bash the law schools as liberal incubators.

This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as legal academics and lawyers bring design... [more]

Of course, working and going to school is only an option in cities that have night law schools as well as patent law firms that practice in your technology area.

He also taught at Oklahoma City University law school as an adjunct lecturer - although his FindLaw profile falsely misrepresented his occupation at that time as an «Outstanding Political Science Professor».

Bharara will join NYU Law School as a «distinguished scholar in residence»...

He grew up in Delaware and attended Amherst College and then Yale Law School as well receiving a master's degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School before going into law practice.

«His performance as president prompted me to run for mayor of Norwalk in 2001,» said Knopp, who is now teaching at Yale Law School as a visiting clinical lecturer.

Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara will join NYU Law School as a distinguished scholar in residence April 1, NYU announced Tuesday.

For the record @HackneyAbbott, I was a trainee solicitor when elected, having gone to law school as a mature student and single parent (1/2)

Instead of going to law school as expected, she puts it on hold and heads to L.A. to come up with a new plan, this time, against her father's wishes.

After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked legal aid at a nonprofit for Spanish - speaking immigrants in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, on a Skadden Fellowship, with a focus on tenants» and workers» rights.

To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael.

He began writing before law school as a reporter for the Staten Island Advance.

A tort is defined by the Cornell University Law School as «an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability.»

I recall going off to law school as a what I believed to be a decent writer.

Those that hold religious beliefs may attend law school as they have equality under the law.

That is to say, a white student who gets a large preference (because of alumni connections, for example) has the exact same problems in law school as a black student who gets a large preference.

Only in this case, the debate is over whether the state should open a public law school as part of the University of Massachusetts.

Given that a lot of 1Ls are starting law school as we speak, I thought I would compile a list of some of the bigger mistakes I made or I saw others make.

«Use law school as much as you possibly can to explore your own interests and get a foundation in what you think you'll focus your future on.»

These we studied in law school as the first «official» rules.

You may recall that last fall, my stated intention as I went back to law school as a sessional instructor was to keep a record of my... [more]

While there, I thought of law school as a factory, with a large conveyor belt that was moving through and ultimately delivering students at the door of large law firms.

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.

The program also proved to be the right experience for Anna - Carolle Bougie, who graduated in 2001 from law school as a mature student.

In that last section I pointed to Professor John Palfrey of the Harvard Law School as a possible model for the leadership.

Sossin says that he hopes the money, comprised of surplus dollars from the law school as a result of a successful professional development program, will grow in future years.

He proudly emphasized his work after law school as a VISTA volunteer and in legal services and his decades of charitable endeavors.

I viewed law school as the path of least resistance.