At 87, this retired police colonel is about to embark on a new career, training as a lawyer But at 87, Ibarra Mariano is not yet done ticking off his checklist in life as he pursues his dream. On Sunday afternoon, Mariano was among the first to come out of University of Santo Tomas after finishing […]
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Graduating from Harvard Law School is an achievement for anyone, but for a young mother working tables and bringing up a one year old, it is much, much more. 24 year old single mother Briana Williams graduated with her Jusis Doctorate after going into labour with her child during the final exam in April. The
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Tom Caine – The most popular law dean in the country – or at least former law dean – Professor Mark Henaghan is to receive a memorable tribute from the students he has cajoled, enjoyed, embraced, celebrated and, most of all, taught in a Facebook-fed tribute that has experienced a tsunami of endorsements and love
Dunedin lawyer David Sim of Downie Stewart has been appointed as an independent barrister to review complaints about inappropriate behaviour – which means jelly wrestling, nudity, excessive drinking etc – at the university’s second-year law camps. The review is expected to “take months” according to an ODT report and will focus on past camps operated
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Undergraduate law courses in the UK are to be ranked in a similar manner to the way in which universities are ranked. This week the UK Department of Eduction launched its Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) consultation process, a 10 week consultation that is designed to cover undergraduate degrees in specified disciplines.
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It’s that law school ranking time with a number of ‘top law school rankings’ about to be unleashed upon the legal public. First we will have the 2019 US News & World Report law school rankings and the Above the Law Top 50 law school ranking. THen there is the Law.com best law school rankings
Clerking for a Supreme Court Justice to working on Death Row are career extremes even for a young lawyer just embarking on his legal career, but the California Bar is “pure torture” but for this young lawyer there was also a personal payoff too. But for kiwi lawyer Andrew Row one of the seminal moments
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A UK study has found that one-third of law students regret taking their degree and even more found that the degree was not value for money. The Student Academic Experience Survey had asked over 14,000 undergraduate students in the UK : ‘If you knew what you know now, would you have chosen another course?’, resulting in
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Law School ‘newbies’ are faced with a range of issues and downright fears when it comes to determining whether they have made the right choice about going to law school in the first place, let alone graduating and embarking on a whole new career and life. But fortunately Renwei Chung, AbovetheLaw’s ‘Diversity Columnist’ made a
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kiwi law professor Mark Henaghan, head of Otago Law School, holds a legendary status among students and alumni alike. But tales of secret sex, nudity on the law camp and other such stories added a certain sense of the “vintage Henaghan”, as one participant put it. Speaking to alumni in Auckland this week, the
