law school

More

Author John Grisham on ‘Talk Justice’ podcast about the importance of legal aid

  • June 2, 2023

justice-podcast-about-importance-of-legal-aid/john-grisham-4/” data-orig-file=”https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham.png” data-orig-size=”555,312″ data-comments-opened=”1″ data-image-meta=”"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"” data-image-title=”john grisham” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”” data-medium-file=”https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham-400×225.png” data-large-file=”https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham-150×84.png” decoding=”async” class=”alignright size-full wp-image-323427″ alt=”author john grisham” width=”555″ height=”312″ srcset=”https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham.png 555w, https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham-400×225.png 400w, https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham-150×84.png 150w” data-lazy-sizes=”(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px” src=”https://augustafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/john-grisham.png”/Bestselling author John Grisham’s speech on the importance of legal aid and his experiences as a lawyer have been included in this the latest episode of the “Talk Justice” podcast.

Legal Services Corporation President Ron Flagg introduced Grisham’s speech, which was recorded at a recent LSC forum on access to justice.

Grisham serves on LSC’s Leaders Council, which works to raise public awareness of the current crisis in civil justice. He is also a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform, frequently speaking publicly about wrongful conviction and serving on the board of directors for both the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries.

“I have a long affinity with legal aid,” Grisham said. “It goes back to when I finished law school at Ole Miss some 42 years ago. I inadvertently became a legal aid lawyer.”

Grisham was struggling to build up clientele in his own law firm after law school when a woman in tears found his office and asked for his help in court that day. She was going to be evicted from her mobile home, and she told Grisham about the years of effort she put in to keep it up, only to have it all taken away. He went with her to court and ended up representing several of her neighbors in the trailer park. He got all of their evictions dismissed and became the community’s go-to pro bono attorney.

“That case proved to me the power of a license to practice law when it’s used to help people,” said Grisham. “It’s astonishing what happens when you’re a lawyer and you take

… Read the rest
LEGAL
More

Large U.S. law firms love hiring from these schools

  • May 20, 2023
  • Same school tops list for a second year
  • Elite law schools dominate in large firm hiring

(Reuters) – Cornell Law School has done it again.

The Ivy League school sent a higher percentage of its 2022 graduates into jobs at large law firms than any other U.S. law school, new data from the American Bar Association shows. Cornell took the top spot in 2021 as well.

Nearly 80% of Cornell’s 2022 juris doctors landed jobs at firms of 251 or more lawyers within 10 months of graduation, up from 76% the previous year.

Columbia Law School was second highest, sending 78% of its 2022 graduates to large firms. Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law was third at more than 68%. Duke Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School finished out the top five with large firm hiring rates of 67% and 66%, respectively.

The ABA on Tuesday released a wealth of data on the class of 2022’s employment outcomes, and the numbers reflect a strong job market for those graduates. Nearly 78% of last year’s new juris doctors found employment that requires bar passage within 10 months of leaving campus — up from about 76% among the class of 2021. That employment rate was higher than the class of 2019, which was the last cohort to enter the job market before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Akua Akyea, associate dean for career development at Cornell Law, attributed the hiring success of graduates from the Ithaca, New York, school to its students who are “problem solvers” sought by law firms.

Reuters analyzed the data to determine which law schools had the highest percentage of 2021 graduates who landed jobs at firms of 251 or more lawyers. Most of these large firms specialize in representing companies in transactions

… Read the rest
LAW
More

Law firm hires Sheldon native Van Holland | News

  • March 2, 2023

SHELDON—Ever since Avery Van Holland earned her law degree, she knew she wanted to return home to Sheldon.

She even knew what firm she wanted to work for as well.

Van Holland got her wish. Not only was she able to return home, she was hired to practice law at Heidman Law Firm in Tom Whorley’s office in Sheldon.

“I’ve very excited to be here,” Van Holland said. “I’m originally from Sheldon, so I wanted to get back to the area and I’m learning from the best.”

She did not have any lawyers in her family, but she knew practicing law was what she wanted to do from a young age. Despite her interest, Van Holland had never met Whorley, a longtime lawyer in Sheldon, when she was in Sheldon.

It was not until she was attending the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City when met Whorley.

Van Holland ended up interning in Whorley’s firm the two summers she was in law school.

“It was clear to me since I started that I wanted to work here full time after I graduated,” she said. “I learned a lot about how to interact with clients and how to talk to people and meet with people and help them through difficult times in their lives. I loved that I was able to work in so many different areas of law. I’ve done a little bit of everything which has been fun to get to know what I enjoy.”

Whorley said Van Holland is a great addition to his firm.

“She clerked for us for two summers, and she did a tremendous job,” he said. “She’s a very bright young lady, and we are really looking forward to integrating her into our Sheldon office. She was born and raised

… Read the rest
LAW
More

UAPB alumnae end law school

  • July 5, 2022

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff extends congratulations and recognizes four female alumni who finished law school in 2022.

The UAPB alumnae are: Ajia Richardson, Tonisha Cox, Ja’Mecia Laws, and Angel (Thurman) Lockhart, according to a news release.

AJIA RICHARDSON is a Pine Bluff native and a 2022 graduate from Howard University School of Law. Richardson is a 2018 UAPB graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in political science degree. Richardson plans to take the Georgia Bar Exam and use her knowledge accumulated at Howard University to implement equity in the entertainment field, according to the news release. During law school, Richardson interned with Amazon Studios and United Talent Agency (UTA). She also interned with Epps Firm LLC, a boutique business and intellectual property law practice that provides legal advice to creatives and entrepreneurs. Also in law school, Richardson served as a student attorney of the Intellectual Property Trademark Clinic and was a member of the Sports and Entertainment Law Student Association (SELSA). She led as SELSA’s 2022 chair of their annual Center Court Conference. While at UAPB, she interned with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) and was initiated into the Delta Eta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. in the spring of 2016. Richardson was a member of the Lady Lions Women’s basketball team at UAPB.

TONISHA “TONI” COX is from East St. Louis, Ill. and is a 2018 UAPB graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in political science degree. In May 2022, she graduated from the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Cox plans to take the Pennsylvania Bar Exam where she aims to later join the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as assistant district attorney. Being a lawyer is a dream that she developed at

… Read the rest
LAW
More

Vermont Law School to rebrand, add master’s degree programs

  • July 5, 2022
Beth McCormack, interim president and dean at Vermont Law School, left, speaks during a press conference in Burlington where the school announced a new strategic direction on Tuesday, June 21. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

Vermont Law School will add three master’s degree programs and rebrand as Vermont Law and Graduate School, school administrators announced Tuesday, adding that the changes will not impact operations at its South Royalton campus.

The law school unveiled the new name and logo at a Burlington press conference, outlining a transformation that will draw from an anonymous $8 million donation to help add two master’s programs in environmental policy and a master’s degree in animal law policy, starting in 2023.

press conference in Burlington where VLS announced a new strategic direction on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger","created_timestamp":"1655808285","copyright":"Glenn Russell","focal_length":"112","iso":"360","shutter_speed":"0.003125","title":"vt-law-school-5 20220621","orientation":"1"” data-image-title=”vt-law-school-5 20220621″ data-image-description=”<p>Beth McCormack, interim president and dean at Vermont Law School, speaks during a press conference in Burlington where the school announced a new strategic direction on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger</p> ” data-image-caption=”<p>Beth McCormack, interim president and dean at Vermont Law School, speaks during a press conference in Burlington where the school announced a new strategic direction on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-300×200.jpg” data-large-file=”https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-610×406.jpg” width=”300″ height=”200″ src=”https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-300×200.jpg” alt=”” class=”lazyload wp-image-396389″ srcset=”https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-300×200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-610×406.jpg 610w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-125×83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-768×511.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621-1536×1022.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vt-law-school-5-20220621.jpg 2000w” data-sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px”/
Beth McCormack. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

“There’s been a period of declining enrollments in law schools over the last several years,” said Beth McCormack, the school’s interim president and dean, “but a growing interest in things like environmental law and justice reform. And so we tried to come up with a plan that would help us in that regard and build upon those strengths.”

The school has operated with a

… Read the rest
LAW
More

Law schools are offering undergrad degrees in emerging legal education trend

  • July 5, 2022

People walk on an empty University of Southern California in Los Angeles, August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Register

  • Three law schools, including USC, to offer a bachelor’s degree in law this fall
  • The University of Arizona’s law school in 2014 was the first to launch a undergraduate degree

(Reuters) – Undergraduate degrees are catching on at US law schools as universities seek new ways to give students a head start on legal careers and help them better understand the role of law in society.

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law said Tuesday that it will offer a Bachelor of Science in legal studies — making it at least the third law school in the country to grant degrees to undergraduate students and the first to do so among US News & World Report’s top 20 highest rated schools.

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law have also said they plan to launch undergraduate degree programs this fall.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Register

These degrees don’t enable students to sit for the bar exam and practice law, but they can pave to the way to law-adjacent careers in compliance and human resources or prepare students for a Juris Doctor program down the road, the schools said.

Unlike in most other countries, the degree needed to practice law in the US is graduate level.

“This is not law school-lite,” said USC law professor Bob Rasmussen of his school’s program. “This is general knowledge for what you would want a smart, educated person to know about the law.”

The University of Arizona’s law school in 2014 became the first to offer a bachelor’s, and the State

… Read the rest
LAW
May 2024
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031