Several UW Law School professors testified in favor of allowing law-school students more supervised practice time in Wisconsin before they graduate.

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On a dreary February day in Madison, Makda Fessahaye and Leakhena Au showed up for class at Madison East High School on internment camps and equal protection.

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Ryan Poe-Gavlinski and her students at UW Law School are doing the sort of work many practicing attorneys can’t. Poe-Gavlinski is the director of the school’s VOCA Restraining Order Clinic, which helps victims obtain restraining orders in cases involving domestic abuse, harassment and child abuse.

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The American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section will plan to present a prestigious award to the retired University of Wisconsin Law School professor Marc Galanter.

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As part of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s 150th birthday festivities, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson will be giving the school’s Kastenmeier Lecture.

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Once Miriam Seifter began taking classes at Harvard Law School, she knew she was interested in becoming a law professor some day.

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Despite more job opportunities for new law school graduates, the percentage of law school grads who get jobs out of college fell for the sixth straight year, according to a study released this month.

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Not long after graduating law school, Margaret Raymond was in court defending a man facing prison time, when she had an epiphany.

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When protestors swarmed Madison over collective bargaining, Carin Clauss didn’t see a political opportunity. She saw a chance to teach.

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Meg Gaines practices knight-in-shining-armor law while supervising students at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Center for Patient Partnerships.

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A $2.5 million endowment to the University of Wisconsin Law School has established the John W. Rowe Faculty Fellowship Fund.

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Shana Lewis has joined the Labor & Employment law practice group at Davis & Kuelthau SC’s Madison office. Lewis practices in the areas of labor and employment, and school and municipal law.

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For the second time in three weeks, the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a grant to the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Frank J. Remington Center.

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It was hard enough to carve out elbowroom, much less a comfort zone with the University of Wisconsin-Madison professors. There were close to 100 students in six of her nine classes.

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Meet Margaret Raymond Current Position: William G. Hammond professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law (she joined the faculty in 1995) Education: Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1985; Carleton College, B.A., 1980 Previous Positions: Clerk ...

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By David Ziemer and Caley Clinton Wisconsin Law Journal As the search for the next dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School draws to a close, one of the three finalists has withdrawn from consideration. Gene Nichol, professor and ...

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The University of Wisconsin Law School will have to do more with less under Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal. His 2011-13 budget includes a $250 million cut in state aid to the University of Wisconsin System that includes the ...

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