Archive for Fact or Fiction?
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Professor Tribe to Return to HLS from DC
Professor Laurence Tribe, one of the world’s foremost experts on Constitutional Law and who has been serving in the Obama administration as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice in the Justice Department, will be returning to HLS this January and resuming teaching in the 2011-2012 school year. We know DC will miss him, [...]
November 19, 2010
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So You Want to Go to Law School?
Cartoons with robot voices talking about law school seems like an odd thing to be gaining a lot of attention among lawyers, but about fifteen people have all forwarded me the same YouTube video entitled “So You Want to Go to Law School.” It features a young woman who [...]
November 3, 2010
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Seeing Beyond the Frivolous
I grew up on a steady diet of daytime television, along with which came a hearty helping of personal injury lawyer ads. One of my local law firms even made Esquire’s list of the five worst plaintiffs’ lawyers ads of all time (For that one and four other gems, check this out.). These low-budget commercials, [...]
October 27, 2010
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HLS Class of 2010 Breaks Pro Bono Record!
The Class of 2010 broke previous pro bono service records by performing an astounding 329,934 hours of pro bono service, an average of 553 hours per student! In fact, 105 students performed more than 1,000 hours of pro bono service each during their three years. Only 23 students performed the minimum of 40 hours. Seventy-five [...]