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Rough Day For Law School — See Also

Above The Law

Law School Woes : Cleveland-Marshall out of financial compliance with the ABA. What In The World : The attack on a South Carolina attorney has spun into a trip to rehab, a suspended license, and missing funds. Quick, let's see if anyone's willing to pay an emergency tuition surcharge!

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Marketing Roundup: Diverse Leadership, Strategic Pricing, Data-Driven Client Service

Above The Law

Before joining the firm, she was a marketing consultant and writer for law firms. with a concentration in intellectual property from Suffolk University Law School and a B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina. Morgan holds a J.D.

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Wingman

Legal Research is Easy

For those not in the know, I'm no longer with the county law library helping the legions of pro se litigants, attorneys, judges, senators, representatives who would walk through the front door. Nope, now I work at a law school trying to help in-grateful students understand the "how" of legal research. Got all that?

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Just call me Captain Obvious

Legal Research is Easy

T he other day as I was doing my Librarian thing, I happened to stop and talk with a student here at the law school. Heck, I used it in law school to help me get ready for my classes for Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Remedies, and Civil Procedure (among others). Seems she was freezing. A warm jacket.

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Why Writing Skills are Necessary for Paralegals

Paralegal Mentor

graduated from the Creighton University School of Law and practiced for many years in banking and commercial litigation in Omaha, Nebraska before she “attempted” to retire in South Carolina. Before Law School, she worked as a paralegal for a number of years and was the first CLA in the state of Nebraska.

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial.

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Tributes to Walter Dellinger, a scholar, Supreme Court advocate, and “luminary in law and in life”

SCOTUSBlog

He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School. From picketing the Carolina Theatre, as a skinny college kid protesting segregation, to arguing in front of the Supreme Court, Walter exemplified the best of what we can be.

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