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UW Law School hires States as first associate dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Michael States will serve as the inaugural associate dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Read More »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 ...
Read More »UW Law professors in favor of rule to allow law students more supervised practice time
Several UW Law School professors testified in favor of allowing law-school students more supervised practice time in Wisconsin before they graduate.
Read More »Program exposes students to diversity, possibility in legal profession
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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Justice to headline law school’s 150th birthday celebration
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.
Read More »UW Law School’s Seifter passing on her knowledge learned from Ginsburg, Garland
Once Miriam Seifter began taking classes at Harvard Law School, she knew she was interested in becoming a law professor some day.
Read More »More opportunities for recent grads, but fewer get jobs
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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Clauss might be retired, but she’s not done teaching
When protestors swarmed Madison over collective bargaining, Carin Clauss didn’t see a political opportunity. She saw a chance to teach.
Read More »Gaines turns personal victory into legal calling
Meg Gaines practices knight-in-shining-armor law while supervising students at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Center for Patient Partnerships.
Read More »UW Law school announces $2.5 million fund in honor of alumnus
A $2.5 million endowment to the University of Wisconsin Law School has established the John W. Rowe Faculty Fellowship Fund.
Read More »Who’s Doing What: New additions at Davis & Kuelthau and Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren
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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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