Month: June 2014

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Convict’s Suit Over Expulsion From Northwestern Law Dismissed

Posted on: by James Langford

A federal judge has agreed to the voluntary dismissal of a former Northwestern Law student’s suit claiming he was wrongfully kicked out when the school learned of his felony conviction for pretending to be a lawyer.

Mauricio R. Celis, Northwestern Law and Instituto de Empresa, the school’s Spanish partner in the executive master’s in law program, sought the dismissal about a month after the case was referred to a federal magistrate for settlement talks. Their joint request, filed on June 18, makes no mention of any settlement agreement. Continue reading →

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Law School Photos, From Downtown LA to the Chesapeake Bay

Posted on: by James Langford

The month of June took Lawdragon representatives from Pepperdine Law’s campus overlooking the shores of Malibu to the University of Maryland’s Westminster Hall, where 19th-century writer Edgar Allan Poe is buried.

Since trips are nothing without photos, each of which is worth 1,000 words, we’re taking this opportunity to share ours with you. Continue reading →

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Women, Minorities Land Majority of New Law Dean Appointments

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Daniel Rodriguez may have gotten his wish this year. The president of The Association of American Law Schools said he encourages women, people of color and other minorities to seek work as deans.

Quite a few have been doing just that: Of the 15 new deans at law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, eight are women and almost half are minorities. Continue reading →

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Law School Application Checklist

Posted on: by Melissa Chan

Applying to law school is an investment in both time and money. Before you start the application process, you should research law schools and talk to your pre-law advisor to decide if law school is the right choice for you. The key to success is planning ahead.applicationsCROP

When you’re ready to get started, be sure to read and follow each school’s application requirements and deadlines. Your acceptance will be based on several factors, the two most important being your LSAT score and GPA. Letters of recommendations and employer valuations will also be considered. Along with your score and academic performance you will be required to submit a personal essay.

You’ll want to have sufficient resources to help you make your final choices. Continue reading →

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Your Guide to the LSAT

Posted on: by Melissa Chan

About the LSAT

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day standardized test, administered by the Law School Admission Council four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world. The exam is designed to measure a student’s critical thinking, comprehension, analytical and logical skills to assess an applicant’s likelihood of success in law school. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: Georgetown Law Center’s Fawah Akwo

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Georgetown's Fawah AkwoStudent Name: Fawah Akwo

Law School: Georgetown University Law Center

Status: Rising 3L

Undergraduate: B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Home City/State/Country: Limbe, Cameroon, in west Central Africa

Fawah Akwo worked as a senior software engineer at Oracle, where she developed customer relationship management web applications. A hallmark of her life, however, has been a devotion to helping women and children, especially girls. During her time in Silicon Valley, she founded a platform to enable youth in developing countries to organize and garner support for service projects in their communities. An advocate for women’s education, Akwo also founded and coordinates a “GirlTech” scholarship program in her home town to orient and nurture women students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

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Gonzaga Law Professor Wins Second Fulbright to Teach in China

Posted on: by James Langford

The Murphy family didn’t make a habit of traveling to the same place twice. So when Gonzaga Law Professor Ann Murphy applied for a second Fulbright teaching scholarship in China, she knew it would be a break with tradition.

Her logic was that China’s rank as the world’s fourth-largest country by area and its diverse population of 1.4 billion make each visit unique.

“I told my brothers and sisters I can’t believe I’m applying for China again because that’s not the Murphy way,” she said in a telephone interview about the most recent grant, which will take her to Shanghai for a year. “But it’s such a huge country, it counts as something different.”

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Dean Limelight: Jocelyn Benson, Wayne State University Law School

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Wayne State Law Jocelyn BensonJocelyn Benson’s commitment to civic engagement and an open, honest American electoral process runs long and deep. The dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit entered the fray as an undergraduate at Wellesley College in Massachusetts when she founded the Women in American Political Activism conference and became the first student elected to serve in the Wellesley town governing body. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Boston University Associate Dean Peggy Maisel

Posted on: by James Langford

Prepping law students to be practice-ready when they graduate isn’t necessarily a matter of balancing practical experiences with traditional classroom instruction, in Peggy Maisel’s opinion. Instead, what works best is fusing the two strategies.

Maisel_Margaret-Peggy-554x260“A big piece is, ‘How do you integrate the two so that in every course, students are learning to be lawyers and to be real problem-solvers in whatever career they decide to embrace,’” said Maisel, who was recently appointed the associate dean for experiential education at Boston University School of Law. “Too often, people are thinking, ‘We’ve had this type of curriculum in law schools that has taught our students to think like lawyers and now we’re going to experiential, and that there’s something different.’” Continue reading →

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