Concordia University School of Law’s request for provisional accreditation, which would allow degree-holders to take the bar exam anywhere in the U.S., will be considered at an American Bar Association meeting almost a month after scheduled commencement ceremonies for its first graduating class.
Eduardo Peñalver’s social activism started started long before he led Cornell classmates in their 1993 takeover of the university’s administrative office building: His parents had taken him on their protest marches at nuclear submarine bases in Washington State. His resulting drive for social transformation led him to law school, legal academe and now, to the position of dean at Cornell Law.
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Michael M. Martin’s relationship with Fordham Law School began in 1972 with a love affair — he looked for a law teaching job in New York to be with the woman he married — and ended up as a love affair. Dean since 2011, he says he’s lucky to be at a school where even the new building reflects its sense of community and family-like culture.
James Anthony Wolff, a 3L in New York Law School’s evening division, long ago confessed to being a passionate composer and musician, a tech geek and a serial entrepreneur; a 3D and space technologies entrepreneur to be exact. All of it, he says, explains why the Center for Business and Financial Law and the “feel of the place” made NYLS the right choice for him.
Students, academics and lawyers at Golden Gate law school’s Second Annual Veterans Law Conference quickly learned what the veterans in attendance knew too well: The legal system can do more to help remedy the homelessness, unemployment, addiction and mental health issues that plague many of the 19.6 million men and women who served in the U.S. armed forces.
Yellow Ribbon, a part of the GI Education Enhancement Program, is designed to pick up on higher education tuition and fees where post-9/11 GI Bill leaves off. The issue for qualified law school applicants is whether their target schools participate and calculating how much of their tuition and other expenses will actually be paid.
In the litigation trenches, John Keker, founder of San Francisco’s Keker & Van Nest, is known as the toughest lawyer around. But he recently came to the Golden Gate University School of Law Second Annual Veterans Conference counseling students, academics and leaders of the bar to offer legal services to veterans with understanding, compassion and, yes, love.
Advocating for disadvantaged communities is a passion for Lola Sophia Bovell, a 3L and 2014 Ms. JD Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. But why she chose UW had a lot to do with its national reputation, choice of clinics, financial aid and a relationship with the school forged at a “Law Day” forum years before the Florida native even applied.
The University of Wisconsin Law School has long prided itself on its “law in action” educational philosophy. Perhaps that’s why Margaret Raymond considers herself the law school’s “dean in action” – an engaged, hands-on administrator who cites her own legal education as a life-transforming experience.