| Former Dean of Washington and Lee School of Law Dies | By Jim Vassallo |
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Former Washington and Lee University School of Law dean Roy Lee Steinheimer Jr., passed away on Thursday at the age of 98, according to a release from the school.Steinheimer served as dean of the law school from 1968 to 1983 and was the Robert E.R. Huntley Professor of Law Emeritus at the school.&qu... |
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| Harvard Law School Failed in Response to Sexual Assault Complaints | By Jim Vassallo |
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It was announced on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education that Harvard Law School failed to respond properly to complaints of sexual assault by two students, according to a report from The Boston Globe.The agency also said that the school violated federal rules that govern how sexual harassmen... |
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| How Not to Write a Personal Statement for Law School | By Jim Vassallo |
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Writing a personal statement for a law school application can be one of the most stressful components of the application to complete. This statement needs to show the law school what type of person you are academically and personally so they know who they are getting if you are accepted. We will dis... |
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| FSU and UMass Law Enter into Partnership for Joint Bachelor’s and J.D. | By Jim Vassallo |
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An announcement was made on Wednesday that Fitchburg State University and the University of Massachusetts entered into an agreement that will allow its students to earn a bachelor’s degree and a law degree in six years, according to The Sentinel & Enterprise News. UMass Law School Dean Mar... |
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| Handling Slumps and Depressions in Law School | By Daniel June |
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We all get anxious at times, we all get depressed; some are more prone to this than others, but nobody escapes it in the long run. Meanwhile, we are in law school, we've done a lot to be here, paid a lot to be here: what sort of career are we building for ourselves if instead of making a favorab... |
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| How to Keep Cool on Your First Day of Law School | By Daniel June |
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You're a law student! You're on your first day to school, and perhaps you've been losing sleep about it: What if my school isn't ranked high enough? What if I don't graduate in the top ten percent of my class? What if I can't get a job 10 month out of law school? I may be ple... |
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| How to Win Friends and Network -- and Not be Shy | By Daniel June |
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One wonders if such books as "How to Win Friends and Influence People," ever changed anybody's actual behavior. One's style of making friends seems intuitive, a basic life skill we've formed within the first ten years of life. Yet there is another sense that we can pick up inte... |
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| Find a Mentor | By Daniel June |
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We’ve all been warned of the limits of book study, and no matter how apt you are at turning school knowledge into work power, there will be bumps. The commonly repeated advice is true. Sometimes you can read an entire book, but all you need is the voice of experience telling you that one sente... |
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| Having a Sense of the Big Picture | By Daniel June |
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Sheila Birnbaum has recently taken the next expansion of her career, leaving Skadden Arps to work at Quinn Emanuel, saying, “I had a wonderful run at Skadden and have many great friends there. However, the opportunity to join Quinn Emanuel was an offer I could not refuse. Its pure litigation m... |
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| How to Network with Lawyers | By Daniel June |
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Once you graduate, how do you make your presence felt in the legal world? Social networking. This isn't sitting at home on your computer emailing your resume to law firms. Mass emailing your resume is spam and not only will it get deleted, and it might even leave a nasty residue on your name. So... |
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