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June 5, 2015 | National Law Journal
Suzanne Reynolds, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law who has served as interim dean for the past year, is getting a promotion. University leaders this week named her dean, effective on July 1. She is the school's first woman dean.
By Karen Sloan
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June 4, 2015 | National Law Journal
The University of California at Los Angeles School of Law has selected professor Jennifer Mnookin as its next dean.
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June 4, 2015 | National Law Journal
A former assistant director of financial aid at Arizona Summit Law School has sued the school, alleging it unlawfully fired her in 2013 after she refused to submit false state tax documents and complained of misleading information about student success.
By Karen Sloan
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June 3, 2015 | National Law Journal
Should law schools grant students academic credit for externships that pay student participants? The American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has debated that question for more than a year, and will take it up once again this week in Minneapolis.
By Karen Sloan
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June 2, 2015 | National Law Journal
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. David Coar, a former judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Illinois. Those are just a few of the leaders who benefited by various NAACP Legal Defense Fund scholarships during the past 50 years. Now the organization is overhauling its law student scholarship program, increasing the amount of grants and providing substantive civil rights training.
By Karen Sloan
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June 1, 2015 | National Law Journal
Northwestern University School of Law will expand its global Access to Health Project with a $1 million donation from university alumnus Chris Combe and his wife Courtney.
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May 29, 2015 | National Law Journal
The "Like" and "Share" buttons are integral to Facebook, but did the social-media giant infringe two patents by employing them on its site? That's what Rembrandt Social Media L.P. — a so-called "patent troll" — claimed in 2013 when it sued Facebook Inc. In stepped the intellectual property litigation team at Cooley.
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May 29, 2015 | National Law Journal
UnitedLex's legal residency program is a collaboration between the legal services firm and four law schools. Graduates get two years of hands-on training in litigation management, discovery, cybersecurity, intellectual property and more.
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May 28, 2015 | National Law Journal
The University of Toledo College of Law has named Benjamin Barros as its next dean.
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May 27, 2015 | National Law Journal
The University of Montana School of Law will soon be renamed the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana. Alumnus Alexander Blewett and his wife, Andrea, have pledged $10 million to the law school—among the largest individual gifts in the university's history.
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The Daily Report is honoring those attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession.
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