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Elite US law schools must take accountability for enabling use of fossil fuels: law student group

JURIST

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions.

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Continuing Education for Paralegals – Sink or Swim?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Why Continuing Education is Necessary If you asked 100 paralegals who all went to 100 different paralegal certificate programs, they would all tell you the same thing: the schools taught us theory and terminology, but not the skills that were needed when on the first day of that first paralegal job.

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157 US law school deans issue collective statement on 2020 election, Capitol attack

JURIST

Law school deans from 157 law schools across the US issued a collective statement on Tuesday addressing the 2020 election and condemning the attack on the US Capitol on January 6. Because law school deans usually do not collectively speak on issues outside of legal education, this was an unusual occurrence.

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Time To Educate The Educators

Above The Law

Law schools proclaim that their job is to make you 'think like a lawyer.' The post Time To Educate The Educators appeared first on Above the Law. That’s not enough.

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Top Lawyers: Randy Zelin of Cornell University Law School On The 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Specific Field of Law

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Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? Except for a brief moment when my mother bought me Grey’s Anatomy and the pictures made me want to throw up, I have always wanted to be a trial lawyer.

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Law School For Non-Lawyers Rests On Knife’s Edge Between ‘Good Idea’ And ‘Cynical Cash Grab’

Above The Law

Honestly, this could be the start of a great new frontier in legal education. The post Law School For Non-Lawyers Rests On Knife’s Edge Between ‘Good Idea’ And ‘Cynical Cash Grab’ appeared first on Above the Law. But it could also be a costly waste.

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US dispatch: SCOTUS set to hear arguments in Harvard case that may end affirmative action in higher education

JURIST

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . President & Fellows of Harvard College , is widely expected to end the practice of affirmative action in higher education. Civil rights groups and lawyers have also submitted amicus briefs in the case.

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