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Like a lot of young lawyers these days, Megon Walker is out of work. But what makes her stint with unemployment different than most is that the Ohio native claims her alma mater, Harvard Law School, is to blame. Life ...
Read More »NY school budgets within tax cap fare better
BUFFALO — Voters in New York state appear to have approved virtually every school budget put before them that didn’t raise taxes beyond new limits set by the state. Budgets that would have overridden the tax cap to preserve staff ...
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Read More »Sotomayor tells NYU graduates to dream big
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came home to the Bronx Wednesday for New York University’s commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium, marveling at the circumstances leading to her return. “This is awesome,” Sotomayor told the 8,000 graduates ...
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Read More »UB TCIE celebrates 25th anniversary
SUNY Buffalo TCIE is celebrating 25 years of improving the local economy by connecting companies with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences resources. Officially launched in 1987 in a storage room in Bell Hall on the North Campus as ...
Read More »Harvard Law dean highlights SUNY Buffalo Law commencement
Campaigning for president in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama was asked why he had chosen a career in public service rather than corporate law. “When I was at Harvard Law School,” he replied, “I had a teacher who changed my life ...
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Read More »Bar exam results posted
Grading has been completed for the February 2012 bar examination, as announced last week by the state Board of Law Examiners. The board examined 4,011 candidates during the two days of testing on Feb. 27 and 28. Graduates of ...
Read More »SUNY’s head trustee gets law school tour
New York state’s public law school recently entertained a visitor with deep roots in public service. H. Carl McCall, chairman of the State University of New York board of trustees, toured SUNY Buffalo Law School Wednesday, meeting with Dean Makau ...
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Read More »Hofstra law student wins bar foundation fellowship
Jonathan Riddix, a law student at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, is the 2012 recipient of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Minority Summer Fellowship, The New York Bar Foundation announced today. As the recipient ...
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Read More »Pollution Prevention Institute adds programs
Joseph Martens, Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, and Anahita Williamson, New York State Pollution Prevention Institute’s (NYSP2I) director, announced that two new programs have been added to the NYSP2I at Rochester Institute of Technology to help businesses market and develop ...
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Read More »County to consider cyberbullying legislation
The Monroe County Legislature will consider a new law that could authorize fines of up to $1,000 or a year in jail for those found guilty of cyberbullying. The bill, which cleared the legislature’s Agenda/Charter Committee earlier this month, will ...
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Read More »EEOC adds transgender to protected list
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups are praising the recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision in Macy v. Holder (appeal no. 0120120821), to extend Title VII employment discrimination protection to transgender individuals. “Applying Title VII in this manner does not ...
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Read More »Buffalo HIV program educates pharmacists
The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is offering three unique HIV continuing education programs in an online format to help pharmacists all over the world keep their knowledge of HIV pharmacotherapy current. It has provided training ...
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