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Performance, evaluations, and emotional intelligence

I'm not a fan of performance evaluation instruments. Too often they are shallow and anxiety provoking.  Too often the evaluation conversations are full…
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New York Law Journal

Law Schools Ramp Up Efforts to Aid Immigrants

Albany Law School has announced that it will launch a new immigration law clinic, while Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center announced that its immigration law clinic has received a grant to take on additional cases involving unaccompanied minors.
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Daily Report Online

Emory Law Announces Civil Rights Professorship Named for John Lewis

Emory University Law School is honoring Atlanta civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis with an endowed civil rights professorship that will be called the John Lewis Chair in Civil Rights and Social Justice.
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National Law Journal

Civil Rights Veteran Lends Name to Emory Law Professorship

Emory University School of Law will establish an endowed chair in civil rights and social justice with a $1.5 million gift from an anonymous donor.
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New York Law Journal

Law Schools

In this Special Report from the New York Law Journal, brought to you free by : "Changing the 'How' But Not the 'Why'," "J.D. Advantage Versus J.D. Required: The Old Rules No Longer Apply," "The Writing You'll Do, and the Writing They'll Read," "Think Outside the Box to Showcase Skills Firms Really Seek" and "Networking Your Way to a Great Legal Career."
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New York Law Journal

J.D. Advantage Versus J.D. Required: The Old Rules No Longer Apply

Jill Backer, assistant dean of career and professional development at Pace Law School, writes: A J.D. is a versatile degree. So, why are the various regulators and reviewers of law schools making a sharp delineation between those graduates that are practicing law in the traditional sense which requires the Bar exam and those graduates using their degree in other ways?
6 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Traditional Marriage Group Calls on Ginsburg to Recuse

A leading group that opposes same-sex marriage is urging U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse herself from the landmark cases that could decide whether such marriages must be permitted under the Constitution.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Think Outside the Box to Showcase Skills Firms Really Seek

Carol Kanarek of Kanarek & Brady discusses various ways—from how to draft your cover letter and resume, to how to utilize contacts—to best draw attention to the qualities firms are really looking for.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Writing You'll Do, and the Writing They'll Read

Joy Martini, a principal with Martini Consulting, writes: The kind of writing you've been trained to do is unique and, to the non-lawyer or no-longer-practicing lawyer, kind of burdensome. There is another writing discipline, marketing writing, that is a key component of client nurture and firm branding.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Networking Your Way to a Great Legal Career

Jack Killion, co-founder and partner of Bluestone+Killion, writes: Law students need to be developing networking skills both to find internships and their first positions after law school and to accelerate their careers once out and working in the profession
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