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.
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.
Jared Brenner went to law school so that he could learn to protect musicians and other creative artists in ways they didn’t – or couldn’t – themselves. What he found at Brooklyn Law School was a new community of creators — tech-startup entrepreneurs — who he hopes will one day be his clients and collaborators.
The cold and snow of Colorado made Kellie Manders, a 3L at Arizona State’s college of law, yearn for Arizona’s sun and warmth. But it was ASU’s distinctive Center for Law, Science and Innovation that sealed her law school choice. It’s now kick-started her career.
Before becoming dean of The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, Daniel F. Attridge spent more than 32 years as a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a major international firm, including 14 years as managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office. That experienced grounded him in the management skills that a dean needs to deal with students, faculty, staff and alumni along with university administrators.
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