Sentences with phrase «of getting into law school»

Having any legal citations, or even any disciplinary sanctions through your undergraduate institution, could affect your chances of getting into law school.

Not exact matches

If you're dedicated enough to get into U of T's MPP program as well as their JD program (law school), you can combine the degrees and complete them simultaneously for a well - rounded law and public policy education.

That's the kind of reasoning that used to get you into trouble in legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Before getting into the world of school food, Kate practiced law, worked as a professional chef in both white tablecloth restaurants and institutions, and also owned a large wholesale and retail bakery.

Former Democratic NYC councilman and Taxi & Limousine Commission chairman David Yassky is being ousted as dean of the Pace University Law School following controversies that included getting back into politics behind the backs of the school's stuSchool following controversies that included getting back into politics behind the backs of the school's stuschool's students.

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.

Others, including Sheriff Murphy and Warren County Sheriff Bud York, support the use of retired law enforcement officers as an economical way of getting well - trained armed officers into schools.

It's the law and people like Mr. Yearwood (who in my opinion is an arrogant and insensitive man) does not care if a concerned mother like Mrs. Kimberly Puccia (who was only waiting to make sure that her child got into the dance school building safely) receive's a ticket by one of his Traffic Agent's under his command.

Durham Public Schools high school English teacher Tim McNamara just got his first up - close look into the implementation of the new teacher contracts that were passed into law last July.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

While not all leaders of other private religious institutions have embarked on lobbying campaigns to get school vouchers enacted into state law, it's worth highlighting another one of those schools that stands to gain from the Opportunity Scholarship Program as an example of the lengths to which taxpayer funds will fund religious education.

If your powers of persuasion haven't helped you get into law school yet, you can put them to good use as an entrepreneur.

There is no set requirement for an undergraduate course of study necessary to get into law school, but experts advise that you take courses that sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills.

Not everyone has this type of knowledge (although I suppose I could have gone to grad school and not law school, biogeological cycles would have been an interesting area to get into) so we do need experts to explain complicated topics.

Their prospective students can't get into top tier schools, but are savvy enough to know all about the non-profit schools» misrepresentation of how many of their graduates get law jobs.

Coming out of law school in 1986, Kevin was anxious to get into the court room.

I am a history major, and in every one of my classes there were at least three people who were taking history because they needed a bachelors to get into law school.

My understanding has always been that Canadian students could get into law school after 2 - 3 years of undergraduate study, depending on the program, and Quebec being the exception.

Legally Blonde has probably done more to lower prospective law students» expectations on the difficulties of getting into and succeeding in a top - tier law school than any other film.

We bought at the height of the housing bubble in 2007, one of those bend - you - over, no - money - down, first (and second) mortgages that only an idiot young law grad like myself would get into (because law school taught me everything there is to know about mortgages and home - buying, if not how not to be stupid).

Law school is hard, it is draining, and it has a special way of turning normal, productive people into frustrated, bitter naysayers.The job you eventually get with your J.D. is unlikely to change the world.

I would make it harder to get into law school, so that there are not so many people with massive debts chasing the much lower number of training contracts

Those behind the Ryerson proposal say the school is necessary as there are a lot of Ontario residents that study abroad because they can not get into the province's existing law schools.

While Benjamin admits it can be a bit of a challenge to get back into school mode, learning soft skills (especially communication skills through teaching) before going back helped him succeed in law school.

And I suppose one of the most useful things a mentor can do, especially if you're engaging with somebody about to leave law school or right out of law school, is help them ease that transition by offering yourself, your knowledge, and your skills, and your advice on how to get your head out of the books and into the practice.

One question the writers of «legal eduction» studies might ask — perhaps they have, I've never bothered to look — is «what does it tell us about law as a discipline that so many people who claim they're no good at math, sciences, philosophy, logic etc. (and whose transcripts show it), manage to get into law school and then do reasonably well»?

It seems odd that those students who worked their butts off to graduate in the top half of their class or to get into a good law school (i.e., not Bond university) should have to subsidize the C - students or the trust fund brats who went to Bond because daddy wanted them to be a lawyer.

Should we not be counting the very significant numbers of Canadian students attending foreign law schools (possibly because they could not get into Canadian schools) then wanting to article here?

The strategy of «head down and work hard to get through» is great for getting you A's in school, getting into a top law school, securing a job in a top law firm, and surviving as an associate and perhaps even getting into partnership.

It seems a lot of students at least that I know went to law school knowing about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and even took out loans to get into law school, in order to finance law school under the knowledge that they would be able to repay them down the road.

This month's cover story, and really a lot of the talk of the town here in Ontario, centres on the shortage of articling spaces for all the lawyers in training graduating from law school and wanting to get into the practice of law — or at least who want to get called to the bar so they can tick it off their list of accomplishments and then go on to run a successful enterprise using their law - school smarts!

Keep in mind that with the advent of «market value» degrees, tuition is more expensive than ever, and students are coming out of law school with massive debt and an understandable desire to cut into that debt and get on with making a good living beyond that — sooner than later.

«Most people I know who get out of law school get into the system where there are required billable hours and they lose their purpose.

BLSA and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law are cooperating to hold an event to help YOU get into law schoLaw are cooperating to hold an event to help YOU get into law scholaw school.

In round two of the mailbag episodes, Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice gave even more advice to people who got into law schools and are trying to figure out the best course of action.

Joe Patrice and Elie Mystal read letters from prospective law students who are trying to figure out where to go based on price, quality, and location of the schools they got into.

Gawker posed a very inflammatory question yesterday: How Did the Owner of a Barely - Legal Teen Gossip Blog Get Into a Prestigious Law School?

You can certainly argue about the problems faced by racialized communities and how that would impact their odds of getting into a Canadian law school, and you can put forward proposals to help them get in.

A number of people in Quebec were annoyed that the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a provincial law that prohibited people from getting their kids into English - stream public education by sending them first to an English - language private school.

But when law firms see foreign degrees that aren't from world prestigious schools they see one of two things; someone who couldn't get into law school in Canada and went abroad, or someone who has been practicing abroad and likely doesn't know much about Canadian law.

But after the amount of study and effort it took to get into law school, and the fierce competition experienced amongst some of the brightest and most determined people I've met, I sure hope to be paid well.

Soon, it will be the season for chucking mortar boards into the air as law students celebrate their success in securing the all important First or 2.1 degree to qualify them to join an ever growing list of contributors to the profits of the vocational law schools and join a list of highly qualified «legal technicians», working for little above the minimum wage, if they can't get that all important training contract or pupillage.

It used to be that «smart» was enough to get you through law school and into a lifetime of cozy legal employment.

At least some of them will be doing those jobs because, for whatever reason, they didn't get into law school or they got in and had to leave without completing law school.

By the way — this is not to denigrate mature students — if one can get into a law school as a mature student, without any form of undergraduate degree, then what does that say about the claim that the JD indicates the law school degree is a 2d professional degree?

«This gap between being eligible for legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell into meant she wasn't able to get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontario.

«When you first go to law school, there is a lot of this competitiveness, especially when you think about people trying to get into the big law firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw school, there is a lot of this competitiveness, especially when you think about people trying to get into the big law firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in OttaLaw in Ottawa.