| LSU Law Center Approves Buyout Program for Professors | By Jim Vassallo |
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The Law Center at LSU has offered incentives to seven professors should they retire next summer, according to The Advocate.The Law Center is trying to cut costs in the middle of declining interest in law schools nationally.All of the professors are older than 65 and are tenured members of the facult... |
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| Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law Receives Provisional Accreditation from ABA | By Jim Vassallo |
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Lincoln Memorial University’s law school has received accreditation from the American Bar Association, according to WBIR.The accreditation comes after years of working to reach the milestone. Joy was definitely in the air at the Duncan School of Law in Knoxville earlier this week when the news... |
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| LSU Creates Graduate Certificate in Energy Law and Policy | By Jim Vassallo |
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Law students will be able to earn a Graduate Certificate in Energy Law and Policy beginning in the spring at the LSU law school, according to The Daily Reveille.The new energy law and policy graduate program began this semester at the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center.The chancellor of the Paul M. H... |
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| Law Students Attend City Charter Seminar | By Jim Vassallo |
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A group of law students in Hudson, New York recently attended their city charter, being able to sit the in Common Council with other city officials and view how the council meeting proceeded. These were students of Hofstra Law School in New York. Eight students were allowed to attend just a few days... |
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| Law Student Hiring is Turning Around | By Jim Vassallo |
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In the past few years, especially following the recession in the United States, law students have had some difficulty finding work. Fortunately, new statistics for the 2014 year show that this is going to change and the slowly building economy is allowing for more law student hiring. In 2013, the am... |
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| Law Students at Rutgers-Camden Help File Taxes | By Jim Vassallo |
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With Tax Day right around the corner, many people in the country dread the deadline and struggle with filing taxes themselves. Being able to pay for an accountant to file taxes for you can be very pricey. A program at Rutgers-Camden Law called the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) project helps... |
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| Join a Study Group | By Daniel June |
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The way to acquire not only mere knowledge – facts, figures and dates – and understanding – how those ideas form a relationship – but also wisdom – how to use those interrelated ideas in life and in law – comes from continual contact with the material. That means ... |
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| Keeping Active With Outlines | By Daniel June |
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The mind learns through active engagement; the more you struggle with the materials, the more you continually return to it, the stronger a grasp you will have on them. Pain is the basic mnemonic device, but to be a strong student you need be no masochist. What is any form of training but pushing you... |
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| Last Minute Prep for 1Ls | By Daniel June |
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Alright class of 2015, classes are about to start, you're a little nervous, a little excited, and you are ready to push your angst into a little preparation. Now's the time to take things to the next step. It's time to read ahead on the courses you are about to take, ensure you've co... |
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| Join a Bar Association | By Daniel June |
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How many of us have taken Spanish in highschool and can't even count to diez? How is it that four years of Spanish pronunciation and vocabulary and we can't even listen in on the fellow shoppers speaking in Spanish? What's the problem? The problem is that we learn a language by immersion... |
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