Month: August 2014

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Law Student Limelight: University of Miami Law’s Noel Pace

Posted on: by Margot Slade

 

University of Miami law student Noel Pace, right, and alum Ryan Foley, left, helped U.S. Army veteran Hosea Smith, center, obtain Social Security disability payments. Smith is a leukemia patient of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Miami.

University of Miami law student Noel Pace, right, and alum Ryan Foley, left, helped U.S. Army veteran Hosea Smith, center, obtain Social Security disability payments. Smith is a leukemia patient of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Miami.

STUDENT NAME: Noel Christian Pace

LAW SCHOOL: University of Miami School of Law and U.S. Army War College (attending concurrently)

STATUS: J.D. – 3L full-time; Master of Strategic Studies, 2nd Year, part-time

UNDERGRADUATE: B.S. in management, Tulane University, New Orleans; Army ROTC Scholarship: Distinguished Military Graduate

OTHER DEGREE/INSTITUTION: Master’s in health administration, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; Master’s of Business Administration, University of Denver.

HOME CITY/STATE OR COUNTRY: Originally Fayetteville, New York (before being commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1993); now a resident of El Portal, Florida.

Think of Noel Christian Pace as a paladin fighting for health justice in the U.S., particularly for giving military veterans the services they deserve. The image of a knight is more appropriate than many might think: This Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and third-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law is concurrently a second-year master’s student at the U.S. Army War College; an Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorpsJD Veteran’s Rights Fellow with the Dean’s Certificate of Achievement (highest grade) for his work in the University of Miami Health Rights Clinic in 2013-2014, and has a history as a leader with health-care organizations in and out of law school. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Harvard Law’s Martha Minow

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Martha Minow. Photo by Ken Richardson.

Martha Minow can’t say “no” when it comes to working for people on society’s margins – typically members of racial and religious minorities, women, children, people with disabilities. Even when she insists that she knows nothing about the specific subject – refugees, for example, or Kosovo – the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law of Harvard Law School ends up as the co-chair or co-creator of some targeted, outcomes-based human rights initiative. Continue reading →

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Michigan Law Clinic Students Help Win New Trial in 1996 Killing

Posted on: by James Langford
Innocence Clinic

Michigan Innocence Clinic staff attorney Caitlin Plummer and then-law student A.J. Dixon talk with TV reporters about the Jamie Peterson case. Photo courtesy of University of Michigan Law School.

Almost two decades ago, a 21-year-old high school dropout named Jamie Peterson confessed to the brutal rape and murder of a Michigan grandmother whose body had been discovered in the trunk of her car. He got most of the details wrong. Continue reading →

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Making a Deal: BU Lawyering Lab Lets 1Ls Practice Transactional Law

Posted on: by James Langford

The lobby of the new Sumner Redstone building at Boston University School of Law wraps around the exterior of the old law tower, above. The school will begin teaching classes, including the Lawyering Lab, in the new building this fall.

The scenes are pure fiction: A Navy lawyer played by Tom Cruise provoking Jack Nicholson’s ruthless Marine colonel into self-incrimination in “A Few Good Men.”

Julianna Margulies as Chicago attorney Alice Florrek, “The Good Wife,” discrediting witnesses for the opposition with a few well-chosen questions.

Raymond Burr winning virtually every one of his cases in a 1960s black-and-white portrayal of Perry Mason.

But in these cases, art has manipulated life as well as imitated it. Such dramatizations have given thousands of prospective lawyers their first glimpse into the legal profession, enhancing its allure by what the directors show – the drama – and what they leave out – the hours of research and paperwork. Continue reading →

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BU Law Students Move in to New Building for Fall ’14 Classes

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Walk through the entrance to the new Sumner M. Redstone building at Boston University law school and you find yourself in a glass-walled atrium, facing a wall of concrete.

That concrete is more than an architectural flourish: It’s the exterior wall of the 17-story tower that has been the law school’s home since the 1960s. This fall, the tower will be closed for renovation as classes shift to the five-story state-of-the-art structure wrapped around a portion of its base, built to complement the design of the original architect, Josep Lluis Sert. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Daniel J. Steinbock, University of Toledo Law

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TOLEDO SteinbockAt the heart of the University of Toledo College of Law is the faculty – at least as far as one former member of that band of academics is concerned.

“I went to Yale Law – obviously a number of years ago – but I still can say without hesitation that we have better teachers here than I had then,” said Daniel J. Steinbock, a faculty stalwart since 1985 and the school’s dean since 2010. “They are noteworthy scholars. They are remarkable in the classroom. And they care.” Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: Cleveland-Marshall’s Michael Bowen

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Michael BowenName: Michael Bowen

Law School: Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Status: 3L, Part-Time

Undergraduate Institution:  Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Undergraduate Degree/Major: History (major), Political Science (minor)

Home city, State: Shaker Heights, Ohio

Enrolling at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Michael Bowen had an already established career in Cleveland, Ohio, politics. His mother was a two-term councilwoman and Bowen had worked for two mayors and multiple campaigns since 2009. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Rick Bales, Ohio Northern University Law

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Rick Bales says he’s in the enviable position of leading a personalized legal education program at a niche institution in a shrunken law student market. Bales is the dean of Ohio Northern University College of Law, where, he said, faculty and staff know every member of the entering class, which this academic year, like the last, won’t exceed 80. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: New York Law School’s Joseph Chung

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check with Philip Greenberg before use Philip Greenberg is the only copyright holderSTUDENT NAME: Joseph Chung 

LAW SCHOOL: New York Law School 

STATUS : Rising 2L (2016)

UNDERGRADUATE: University of Texas at Austin. Major: International Relations and Global Studies

HOME CITY/STATE OR COUNTRY: Houston, Texas

Joseph Chung’s sense of himself as an engaged, and engaging, citizen in a global economy developed during his undergraduate years in Austin, Texas. Chung, a 2L at New York Law School, said that’s where he became keenly interested in the complicated legal issues that arise from economic development and the interactions between various foreign and domestic parties. Continue reading →

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