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ABA: Unemployment rate increased by 30% for 2020 law school grads

The unemployment rate for recent law-school graduates increased by about 30% from 2019 to 2020. And COVID-19 is likely to blame, according to the American Bar Association. The ABA released 2020 employment data last week. The report showed 34,420 people graduated from the 197 schools that were ABA-accredited in the U.S. in 2020, a 1.4% increase from 2019. Of those ...

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UW restraining-order clinic offers life-changing help to survivors

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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UW law professor wins award

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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Raymond leads by example

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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Innocence Project gets $1 million in grants

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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More than just a face in the crowd

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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UW Law names Raymond new dean (UPDATE)

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 to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge James Oaks of the U.S. Court of ...

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Nichol withdraws from UW Law School dean search

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 director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina School of Law, informed the ...

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Walker’s budget includes cuts to UW-Law School

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 state’s only public law school. “We anticipate significant cuts to our budget,” UW-Law School Dean Ken Davis said. How much ...

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