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Connecticut Law Tribune

The Importance of Writing Well

There was a kerfuffle the other day when the powers that rule on such things proposed reducing the length of federal appellate briefs by 1,500 words. After much hand-wringing, weeping and gnashing of teeth, the limit was reduced from 14,000 to 13,000. Civilization will continue.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

A Lawyer's Open Letter to Bar Examiner Chairman

By | October 11, 2016
The Georgia Board of Bar Examiners should do more than acknowledge its wrong after incorrectly failing 90 bar exam takers; it should help recover what was lost.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Bar Passage Rate Dips to New Low

The passage rates for first-time takers of the Pennsylvania bar exam reached a new low with results from the July test.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

Arrested Development Leads to More Unrest

The intersection of race and poverty continue to play an integral role in maintaining historical disparities in the distribution of social and economic opportunities, but pilot programs in DeKalb and Fulton counties are seeking to create better options.
13 minute read

The American Lawyer

Squire Patton Boggs Public Interest Fellowship Goes Abroad

The firm's program, which funds internships at government agencies and nonprofits, is now open to students at law schools outside the U.S.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Review at CUNY Law

By | October 06, 2016
The CUNY School of Law's Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality presented its 7th Annual U.S. Supreme Court Review/Preview Tuesday evening, discussing key cases of interest to the Latino community and to practitioners concerned with issues of equality and social justice.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

George Mason Christens Antonin Scalia Law School

Six Supreme Court justices attended the renaming, including Justice Elena Kagan who called her late colleague "one of the most important Supreme Court justices ever."
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Small Firms Struggling to Take the Technology Leap

Advanced legal technology struggles to find its place among smaller firms and solo practitioners.
18 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Banned from Campus, Alleged Harasser Loses Libel Suit Against Law Student

A Texas appeals court has dismissed a libel suit brought by a political hopeful against a recent graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, whose allegations of sexual misconduct got him banned from the Lubbock law campus.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Law Schools Readying Students for Uniform Bar Exam in N.J.

New Jersey's law schools are taking steps to prepare students set to become the first in the state to take the Uniform Bar Exam, a universal test adopted by a growing number of states that will be administered in New Jersey beginning in February.
5 minute read

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