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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. The post South Dakota’s Pilot Bar Alternative Switches Out Studying Outlines For Community Service appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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South Dakota Lawmakers Face Opposition Over Proposed New Women’s Prison

The Crime Report

Lawmakers in South Dakota have proposed a new women’s prison, estimated to cost $60 million, in response to the state’s current overcrowding issue, Lee Strubinger reports for the SDPB. The women’s prison in Pierre, South Dakota, currently has a population of 316 inmates in a facility built to hold just over 200.

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ALPS In Brief -Episode 81: Tam Nash, ABA YLD President - Inspiring First Gen Lawyers to Summit New Heights

ALPS

Tamara Nash, Director of Experiential Learning and lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law and Chair of the ABA's Young Lawyer Division shares her plans to reach more young lawyers by organizing the ABA's inaugural first-generation summit in April 2024.

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Why Regulatory Reform Is Desperately Needed in the U.S.

Attorney at Work

million lawyers in the United States. Nationwide, there are approximately four lawyers for every 1,000 residents, but the number doesn’t reflect the reality. Most lawyers work in urban areas, while many rural areas of the country have few or no lawyers. have less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents. .”

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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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2023 is the Year of New Consumer Rights

Diane Drain

Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer. Drain, P.A.,