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• Going beyond law school rankings

  
  Equal Justice Works Blog — Authority: 106
  A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the competition for better rankings and an increasingly hands-on approach to educating students is responsible for driving up the cost of law school. The report further blamed the focus on rankings for a drop in the number of minorities enrolled in ...
  10 hours ago

• Justice Alito and the ABA Guidelines

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  National Law Journal reports, " A Justices Curious Comment About ABA Guidelines for Death Penalty Lawyers ."  Its written by Marcia Coyle. The Supreme Court this week, in an unsigned opinion, reversed reliefgranted by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to a death row inmatebecause of his lawyers ineffective ...
  22 hours ago

• The ABA Has a Plan for Law School Loans

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 720
  The American Bar Association has a plan to help out unemployed lawyers with their student loans. Seriously. An actual plan. The National Law Journal reports : The ABA wants the government to let unemployed graduates convert private loans into federal ones. The change could allow them to defer repaying those loans ...
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• Delaware PDs See Case Loads Reduced

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  " States public defenders see fewer cases ," is the title of J.L. Millers report in the Wilmington News Journal. The Public Defenders Office wont seek a budget increase this year,thanks to a puzzling trend in the number of cases the agency handles. Public Defender Brendan ONeill said in his agencys budget ...
  6 days ago

• Florida Revises Death Penalty Jury Instruction

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  " Fla. justices respond to death penalty confusion ," is the title of Bill Kaczors AP report, via the Miami Herald. The Florida Supreme Court revised standard jury instructions fordeath penalty cases Thursday in ways the justices hope will reducewidespread confusion among jurors disclosed by an American ...
  2 weeks ago

• New GAO Report on Law School Cost and Access Issues

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 422
  The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recently released a new report titled “Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access.”The report includes briefings the GAO made to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) and to the  U.S. House of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Religious differences are making custody disputes even messier

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Christianity Today : "In mid-July, New Hampshire judge Lucinda Sadler ordered 10-year-old Amanda Kurowski into public instruction . . . I think its widely regarded as a dangerous precedent if its allowed to stand, said [Mike] Johnson, whose group represents Kurowskis mother. We dont want courts to be in the business ...
  2 weeks ago

• New GAO Report on Legal Education

  
  Out of the Jungle — Authority: 492
  The GAO has released a new report on the cost of legal education, according to a news brief in Inside Higher Education . The Chronicle of Higher Education also covers the new report in an article published yesterday. Some individuals and groups, notably ALDA, have blamed the ABA accreditation process ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opinion Roundup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  " Death penatly costly ," is the editorial in the Salina Journal.  Its written by editor and publisher Tom Bell. Just for the sake of discussion, lets set aside any moral questionsregarding the death penalty and look at the issue from another angle --one based in common sense. Simply put, the death penalty is much ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama’s Newest Racemongering Judge: California’s Edward Chen

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  President Obama has gone out of his way to “diversify” the federal bench with his spate of nominations of various minorities chief of which was his successful seating of the “wise Latina,’ Sonia Sotomayor, on the Supreme Court. Obama’s nominees* for 10 district court openings include four African-Americans, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Get Your Legal Assistant Education On The Web from the Comfort of Your Home

  
  Sparkliesunshine.net — Authority: 163
  Having a low level job is not where many people would like to spend their careers. If you work in administration, why not focus on tasks revolving around law offices? There have been many campaigns promoting online paralegal schools. The American Bar Association has recognized some of the many online paralegal ...
  3 weeks ago

• Opinion Roundup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  We have an OpEd, blog post, and column to fit into this post. First from the Allentown Morning Call, an OpEd by Ashlee Shelton and Kurt Rosenberg, " Pennsylvania is at serious risk of executing an innocent person .  She is the director of Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty ; he is the director of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Judge plays psychologist in part vs full scale IQ use in death penalty case

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 130
  Judge plays psychologist re: part vs full scale IQ scores in Atkins IQ MR death penalty case.  Check out guest post, at I CDP blog, by Kevin Fole y . Technorati Tags: psychology , forensice psychology , criminal psychology , ABA , American Bar Association , school psychology , educational psychology , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Al Qaeda funding disrupted, but Taliban much stronger: US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  By Arun KumarWashington, Oct 13 (IANS) The US government claims to have made major strides in disrupting Al Qaeda’s funding network, but believes several other terrorist groups, particularly the Taliban in Afghanistan, are much stronger financially than Al Qaeda.These other terror groups continue to pose “serious ...
  4 weeks ago

• In Forida

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  Todays St. Petersburg Times carries the OpEd, " Florida death penalty system needs reform ."  Its written by Raoul G. Cantero III and Mark R. Schlakman.  Cantero is a former Florida Supreme Court justice appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush.  Schlakman is the board chair for the InnocenceProject of Florida and served on ...
  8 weeks ago

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