Sentences with phrase «of a law degree»

How is it that students can complete two and a half years of a law degree before ever being required to search for a judgment?

As part of your law degree program, you may be required to work as in intern at one or more places.

These two types of data are intuitive and simple; as such, they were relied upon heavily by people assessing the value of the law degree.

If he's not taking advantage of his law degree while writing laws, what is he doing?

Considering the cost of a law degree, that fact says something genuine about where this firm's interests lie.

But have you really thought about the various types of law degrees on offer?

Walk into just about any legislature now, and you'll see plenty of law degrees on the walls.

Understanding the financial realities of your law degree is the first step to making wise decisions about your student loans.

Many lawyers in the area argue that anything short of a law degree is inadequate preparation for the complexities of family law.

The debate between law societies and universities about the contours of law degrees has been at the forefront of discussions between law schools and law societies for the past ten years.

Let technology handle the busy work, so you can focus your time on your client's needs that require individual attention and are worthy of your law degree.

The main tip for new law students is to be prepared to work hard but not to be put off by the challenges of a law degree.

If you're in your final year of a law degree you can apply for a training contract or placement scheme with us, or join us for an open day.

It is this relative advantage — not absolute outcomes — that measures the value of the law degree.

Mr. Milligan holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Queen's University.

With a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bar Ilan University in Israel and a BCOMM from Monash University in Melbourne, Doron was previously an M&A attorney at the international law firm Clifford Chance in London, a Corporate Finance lawyer at Yigal Arnon & Co. in Tel Aviv, and a Vice President at Barclays Capital in Israel.

Jaime holds a Master of Laws degree in International Legal Studies from American University, Washington College of Law, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Puerto Rico Law School and Bachelor of Science degrees in marketing and organizational management from Marquette University.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Ryerson University.

Below is a look at some of the prestigious honors awarded to members of the HGSE community: Professor Emerita Patricia Albjerg Graham, previously Harvard's Charles Warren Research Professor of the History of American Education, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Harvard University Commencement this year.

Expected completion of law degree in May 2012 and focused on a role in government agency law.

Alex has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Trudeau Foundation Mentor and has received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from the University of New Brunswick.

About AccessLex Institute: AccessLex InstituteSM, in partnership with its nearly 200 nonprofit and state - affiliated ABA - approved Member law schools, has been committed to improving access to legal education and to maximizing the affordability and value of a law degree since 1983.

If many faculty members have been too slow to recognize the professional purposes of a law degree, many students — and the law firms that eventually hire them — have been too quick to turn law school into a jurisprudential version of the college football season and draft, with too much attention focused on what comes after graduation, not before.

30 states allow for at least some of their judges to serve without benefit of a law degree (a 31st, Connecticut, allows non-attorney Probate Judges in office on January 4, 2011 to remain and be reelected.)

I was wondering whether we are getting to a stage where law degrees have become worthless in favour of City firms looking to fill training contract positions with STEM grads, or whether the legal profession, at least for the short term (say ten years) will still be just as fond of law degree holders.

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.

BU Law has offered a post-graduate legal education leading to the Master of Laws degree for more than 125 years.

Additionally, the Law Society has approved another innovative option for fulfilling the experiential training component of its licensing requirements: the Integrated Practice Curriculum offered by Lakehead University, as part of its law degree program.

The second instance is scheduled to occur on May 17, 2009 when the University of Notre Dame will salute the nation's leading abortion advocate, with an honorarydoctor of laws degree at the 164th university commencement ceremony.

Instructor Howard O. Kieffer's criminal background — not to mention his lack of a law degree — came as a surprise to the Federal Defender Services of Milwaukee, which arranged the CLE program back in November 2007 believing Kieffer to be a legitimate expert on sentencing law.

You will spend 1 - 2 years studying all the compulsory modules of a law degree including tort, contract law, constitutional law, EU law, property law and equity and trusts.

Nearing the end of her law degree, she found all the opportunities were for the following year.

In fact, in the last couple of days I have seen no fewer than three new species of law degrees or joint programs offered:

Many lawyers earn a comfortable living and a J.D. certainly has value in today's marketplace, but you must weigh the cost of law school and three years of lost earnings against the potential returns of a law degree.

The National Law Journal this week raises the question, «Is the Versatility of a Law Degree Just a Myth?»

An effect, then, of tuition deregulation and climbing law school tuition fees is to create an increasingly narrow social category of student who can afford the professional gamble of a law degree.

This can be a frustrating disconnect: the lawyers I meet invariably are interesting, insightful, and well - rounded, yet their online bios are often stiff, stilted, and one - dimensional, providing readers with trivia such as year of call and source of law degree rather than information that clients can really use.

Is the author proposing reforms to articling or the structure of law degrees?

It also approved Lakehead University's integrated practice curriculum, in which students take approximately 10 - 20 extra credit hours across the course of their law degree, and complete practical and experiential education, as a replacement to articling after graduation.

Launched at the end of 2016, «Trailblazer» law apprenticeships have been developed by a high profile panel of law firms and offer an alternative route to legal practice which involves «learning on the job» as opposed to following the traditional route of a law degree followed by the Legal Practice Course (LPC).

the review and modernisation of law degree studies so that new lawyers can meet the technological challenges;

In the aftermath of yesterday's historic debate before the Law Society of Upper Canada, in which the application of Trinity Western University for accreditation of a law degree was rejected 28 - 21, with one abstention, a number of colleagues asked me about the tactical considerations involved in this two - day process.