Sentences with phrase «said law school»

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A large percentage of law students surveyed in 2010 said law school did not prepare them to understand the needs of clients.

«I'm here because I think it's really important for Asian Pacific Americans to show solidarity for immigrant communities to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,» said law school graduate Michelle Lee, 25, who lives in Manhattan.

It is a truism to say that law schools do not do a good job of equipping students with the skills they need to succeed in the real world.

It goes without saying that law school does not teach us how to run an office.

Sossin says the law school believes it's great to see students «expressing their convictions» and they'd like to ensure they're given the space to further their dialogue.

«Foreclosure Standoff Update: Homeowner Carried Out of Home by His Hands and Feet Main Adam Smith, Esq., Says Law Schools Should Pledge Full Disclosure on Employment Stats»

Jay Michi, a third - year student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, says law schools are oriented toward producing lawyers for big law firms — an orientation that needs to change in order to improve access.

Valarie said law schools are notoriously theory - heavy and suggested lawyers might need more management training.

In - house lawyer Patricia Romanovici says law schools are «definitely not» the only place to get legal training.

I would say that law school was quite directionless for me.

Sixty - five percent of law students (and 90 percent of lawyers) say law school does not teach them the practical business skills they need to practice law in today's economy.

Trudell says law schools have a role to play.

This is not the best time to be a law school dean — which is not to say that law schools deserve a bit of sympathy.

A new paper by a law professor who battled clinical depression says law schools can do a better job of talking to future lawyers about the issue of mental illness within... Read More

It goes without saying that law school is a competitive environment.

As for the report's data collection recommendation, which suggests law schools should «gather and publish qualitative and quantitative data on the composition of students entering and exiting law school,» Brooks says her law school collects «some» data, and also works collaboratively with the barristers» society to track the students and their path as they enter the profession.

While her school may not collect all the data it could, Brooks says law schools generally make «all kinds of data» available on their web sites.

Many will say that law schools are there simply to serve the purpose of providing a legal education that students are free to use in whatever fashion they choose; ensuring students become lawyers is not the role of law schools.

«It's our largest donation; it's the largest individual donation in our university's $ 1.5 - billion dollar [fundraising] campaign, and it's the largest donation to legal education in Canada ever,» says law school dean Mary Anne Bobinski about the latest gift.

However, it strikes me that during a time when the NYT says law school is a losing game, many are saying bag law school altogether, and there is a market for shit law jobs, that there is more to getting a law job than getting dressed up to talk about current events while following the golden rule, following basic rules of competency, oh and having fun.

Not exact matches

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.

«I worry this will turn immigration itself into a poison pill,» says Vivek Wadwha, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, and an Inc. columnist.

California Western School of Law professor Leslie Culver says she's seen this occur several times in a professional setting.

Yanev holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Oxford Said School of Business (M.B.A, Christ Church).

Start - Up Chile's creators realized that «to change the culture, you'll need to bring foreigners in,» says Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School and adviser to Start - Up Chile.

«If you're uninsured or underinsured, you can run up a huge debt in a short period of time,» says Lois Lupica, a bankruptcy expert and Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law.

Cohen has long viewed his legal career through a pragmatic rather than high - minded lens, said former Cooley Law School classmate Greg Crockett, now an attorney in Okemos, Michigan.

«At a minimum we need a law that protects the privacy of our children in our public schools,» Abbott said.

But it's unlikely the CFPB will take an active role in regulating lawsuit lenders under acting director Mick Mulvaney, or under a future permanent director appointed by President Donald Trump, said Nora Freeman Engstrom, professor of law at Stanford Law Scholaw at Stanford Law SchoLaw School.

«The official position of so many jurisdictions now is that they want less solitary,» said Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a co-author of the report.

«Look to your right; look to your left,» Tisch said at a recruiting event in early January, modifying the Harvard Law School warning to first - year students.

For example, Montesano said some of his clients will overlook colleges that are «top feeders» into the country's best law, business and medical schools as well as Ph.D. programs, just because they don't boast a well - known or Ivy League title.

Stanford University Law School professor Michael McConnell, a former federal appeals judge, said the court should not consider campaign statements, because Trump only swore an oath to uphold the Constitution after he became president.

As Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program Executive Director Sharon Block said to me in an email: «I don't think we can be limited in our thinking by what can get through Congress now — nothing can.

Frazier went straight from Penn State to Harvard Law School, where he says he was one of the few people in his class who had gone to a state university (as opposed to an Ivy League university or one of the more elite private colleges.)

«Writing about race and inequality made me want to explore these issues more deeply, so I'm now getting my JD at Yale Law School,» Jeff says.

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

'' [Silicon Valley] runs the risk of being perceived as arrogant and entitled and super-wealthy and narrowly satisfying its own interests,» says Dan Siciliano, a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center, and executive director at the Program in Law, Economics, and Business at Stanford Law School.

«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous about getting the law right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suilaw right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suiLaw School professor who has studied appraisal suits.

The situation is worse, if anything, among accountants than it is among securities dealers, says John C. Coffee Jr., a Columbia Law School professor and a leading authority on securities enforcement issues.

«My guess is pharma is waiting to see how it plays out and which side the public opinion goes,» said Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

«I enjoyed law school,» he says, «but I didn't ask the question of why I was doing this nearly enough.

«So many things can look good online,» says Ray Madoff, director of the Forum on Philanthropy and Public Good at Boston College's Law School.

Kim Jong Un is looking for a «drawn out, open - ended negotiation process to buy time and money,» says Lee Sung - Yoon of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

«The real problem isn't H - 1Bs — it's green cards,» says serial entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa, a Stanford Law School fellow and author of The Immigrant Exodus.

Mueller's office's move to dismiss last week's charges against Gates appear to be in step with the plea deal the former Trump adviser coordinated with the special counsel's office, said Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal lLaw School and an expert on criminal lawlaw.

Even if the FDA puts its foot down, «companies are always going to be able to find a new synonym or creative marketing term» that doesn't run afoul of regulations, says Margaret Pollan, an assistant professor of environmental food law at Pace Law Scholaw at Pace Law SchoLaw School.