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What If I Don’t Want to Litigate? Law Degree Alternatives: Exploring Unconventional Career Paths

The Barrister

Employment Trends for Law Graduates In a joint study by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) and the NALP Foundation, findings revealed that 97% of surveyed law graduates from the class of 2018 were employed. 14 Read more about alternative legal career paths with Sol Blatt, Jr. However, only 51% were working in law firms.

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With Expansion, Legal Innovation Lab Is First to Span Multiple States and Institutions

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Innovation for Justice , a legal innovation lab focused on social justice, launched at the University of Arizona James E. Innovating Legal Services, in which students will create a Medical Debt Policy Scorecard that inventories the medical debt policies in all 50 states and ranks states based on existing consumer protections.

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Daniel Rodriguez

Colin S. Levy

Rodriguez is the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and served as dean of the Law School from January 2012 through August 2018. How do you envision the role of technology evolving in legal education, and what steps should law schools take to prepare future lawyers for this changing landscape?

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New Director Named to Lead Illinois Commission on Professionalism, As Jayne Reardon Retires

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Harold was a 2014 Republican primary candidate for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District and the 2018 Republican nominee for Illinois attorney general. Since 2015, she has served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Equality. Wright Memorial Award for appellate advocacy in the Ames Moot Court Competition.

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The NextGen Bar Exam Will Be Available in 2026: How Are States Preparing?

Legal Tech Monitor

In 2018, the NCBE launched a Testing Task Force to study if the UBE is continuing to ensure that new lawyers possess the minimum knowledge and skill needed for entry-level practice, as it had received criticism for not reflecting the actual practice of law.

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The 2020 Influential Women in Legal Tech

ELTA

She introduced Spain to Legal Design Thinking, was named an official ambassador of the Madrid City Council for attracting the 2019 European LegalTech Congress to Madrid, and is supporting the internationalization of Spanish LegalTech through her leadership of the European LegalTech Association (ELTA).

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Marking the Retirement of Jerry Larkin, Who Led the ARDC With Exceptional Foresight, Integrity, and ‘Irish Wit’

Legal Tech Monitor

After just a couple of years at the ARDC—an entity charged by the Illinois Supreme Court with upholding the legal profession’s integrity in Illinois—Larkin began to realize he might have found the place where he could accomplish his mission. “As He was a gentleman when he appeared before the court,” Grogan said. “He

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