Sentences with phrase «upper year law students»

Since 2016, Knomos as been working with UVic's Advanced Legal Research & Writing course to enable upper year law students to gain practical experience with new and emerging legal technologies as they prepare to embark into their professional careers.

Rise is a non-profit organization providing free family law services for low - income women through a legal clinic staffed by upper year law students from UBC's Peter A Allard School of Law.

For the past two years I've taught Advanced Legal Research and Writing to upper year law students, and I've just begun a third session.

Not exact matches

Last month, I taught a new course called «21st - Century Lawyering» to upper - year students at Suffolk University Law School in Boston (where I hold the marvellous title of «Legal Innovation Strategist in Residence»).

So students interested in specializing in, say, Japanese law might be offered the option of an upper - year «stream» in Japanese law... that would comprise a certain number of courses in the procedural, substantive, and jurisprudential aspects of the Japanese legal system.

«After speaking to upper - year students, I learned that even if I summered at a firm in another city, I would not be precluded from reapplying to Toronto law firms for articles.»

Interestingly, it was found that the law students in their upper years were less committed to their marital role.

Most law schools assign a «mandatory substantive writing requirement» to upper - year students in an effort to develop research and writing skills.

Rise Women's Legal Centre provides an experiential learning opportunity for upper year students from the University of British Columbia's Peter A. Allard School of Law, in a non-profit, social justice environment, with a focus on the circumstances of women and their experiences within the justice system.

The companion course I taught included coverage of the substantive law in the major legal research assignments in the first - year course, sessions on working with upper - level students and scholarly legal writers, and advanced training in working with non-native English speakers.

I use this as a refresher for upper - year law students.

The programme will give students a foundation in LRW that still leaves lots of room for our instructors in the upper year Advanced LRW classes, and our law firm librarian and research lawyer colleagues to build on.

Our legal services are delivered by upper - year articled students with family law - specific education and training, and who are assisted on every file by our supervising lawyers.

On the academic side, effective legal writing is the subject of scores of legal writing textbooks3 and hundreds of articles.4 Legal writing instruction has been part of legal education in some form since the time of Langdell.5 The American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards recognize the importance of legal writing by requiring law students to undertake writing experiences as part of their first - year and upper - level courses.6

While the complex nature of the topics may be too advanced for first - year law students, upper - level students, professors, judges, and legal practitioners with some basic knowledge of rhetoric and persuasion will find this book engaging and will finish this book with new examples and a greater understanding of established theories.

Law school was a shelter from the storm, and an arts student's dream — a guaranteed ticket into the upper middle class, through a prestigious, cerebral profession that had gone largely unchanged for the last 500 years.

This part of the WLMP is particularly beneficial to first year students, who have a chance to get support and guidance from upper year students who have a better grasp on the law school experience.

It will be staffed by upper - year law students who are closely supervised by onsite attorneys.

Andrew was the recipient of the Frank W. Wilson and Marion Claire Wilson Memorial Scholarship in Constitutional Law, presented to the upper year student with the highest standing in Constitutional Law courses.

After completing a mostly traditional first year of law school, Northeastern students enter a quarter system in which 11 - week cooperative placements alternate with 11 - week upper - level courses.