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South Dakota’s Pilot Bar Alternative Switches Out Studying Outlines For Community Service

Above The Law

What if instead you could get some hands-on lawyering experience and help others along the way? South Dakota is working on implementing a program that will let you do just that. Not too long ago, the bar exam was the metric to determine if law school grads were ready to make the jump from J.D. ” certificate?

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Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual Journal is out

At the Lectern

The new Journal includes: Articles Ladies Justice: Celebrating Seven Trailblazing Female Firsts on the California Court of Appeal by Justice Shama Hakim Mesiwala Chinese Immigrants in the California Supreme Court: The Earliest Civil Cases by Charles McClain South Dakota v. Bringing Humanism to Californias Prisons by J.

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Lack of Rural Lawyers Leaves Much of America Without Support

The Crime Report

While the running joke may be that there are too many lawyers in the world, in many rural places in the United States, there are demonstrably too few. Despite efforts in recent years by a handful of states, universities and legal associations to ease the problem, there remains a glaring lack of lawyers in many far-flung places.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 64: Project Destination

ALPS

I’m on the road today and out in South Dakota at a convention and have had the pleasure to meet Tamara Nash. And she is the Director of Experiential Learning and a lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law. ” So our class had a wrongful termination lawsuit and-.

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The Growing Fight Against Marriage Equality

Above The Law

In Idaho and North Dakota, House legislatures have approved measures asking SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell. In Wyoming and South Dakota, similar measures have been introduced. Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast , and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer.

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Biden Again Summons His “Leading Legal Constitutional Scholars” to Support an Absurd Constitutional Claim

JonathanTurley

Even worse, four states Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky rescinded their prior ratifications and a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. The problem, Biden admitted, was his own lawyers told him that it would be flagrantly unconstitutional. It failed to do so.

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