Category: Law Students

From the latest edition of WisBar InsideTrack: Sept. 29, 2009 – A petition filed on Sept. 25 with the Wisconsin Supreme Court aims to extend the “diploma privilege” to graduates of all ABA-approved law schools or abolish it entirely. Petitioner Steven Levine, a past State Bar of Wisconsin president, and 70 other State Bar members …

Last week, plaintiffs filed a brief in their challenge to Wisconsin’s “diploma privilege.” From the State Bar of Wisconsin news: In the newly filed brief, the plaintiffs ask for summary judgment on the question of whether Wisconsin discriminates against interstate commerce when it requires an examination of graduates from out-of-state law schools in subject areas …

The next time you receive a corrupted file from a student, you may want to think twice. Thanks to one of our faculty members for passing this one on: From Inside Higher Ed: Corrupted-Files.com offers a service — recently noted by several academic bloggers who have expressed concern — that sells students (for only $3.95, …

“Big firms across the country have dramatically cut the number of associates attending their 2009 summer programs, a sign that firms don’t expect to see a talent shortage in fall 2010,” reports Law.com. Many of California’s biggest firms have cut the number of associates in their programs compared to last year, some by 30 percent …

Despite the downturn in the economy, or perhaps because of it, applications at Wisconsin’s law schools are high for 2009. According to WisBar, “applications for the entering class of 2009 are up 5

The Social Media Law Student has launched a series called Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools. In part one, the author shares her frustrations about her school’s stance on social media: Like other law students, I was told not to blog about law school and to be careful what I posted on that evil …

From UW Madison News: Robert Lee Stinson, a Milwaukee man convicted of homicide in 1985, is expected to be released from prison today (Jan. 30, 2009) based on new evidence of his innocence. Stinson’s attorneys with the Wisconsin Innocence Project and Milwaukee County District Attorney Norm Gahn have agreed that the new evidence — consisting …

There is an interesting article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education on the results of the 2008 Law School Survey of Student Engagement. The author particularly discusses one section of the report, Computers in the Law School Classroom. Law-school professors are fed up with students using laptop computers in class to surf to Facebook, eBay, …

The American Association of Law Libraries announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Contest. Currently enrolled students attending graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related subjects are eligible to enter the competition. Papers may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. Papers must be …

From Law.com: UC-Berkeley School of Law researchers say they have identified tests that could be used along with it to better predict success in the practice of law. And the law school’s dean is trying to round up support from other schools to take the research to a national level. Roughly 10 years have passed …