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Nationally known author, lecturer, attorney, mutual fund trustee, business expert and former UCLA School of Law Professor Lynn A. Stout is Cornell Law School’s first endowed professor in the new Jack G. Clarke Institute for the Study and Practice of ...
Read More »St. John Fisher’s business school honors alumni
The Bittner School of Business at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford hosted a banquet Wednesday to honor the alumni winners of the Excellence in Management Award and the Dean’s Medal for Outstanding Service. The event took place at the ...
Read More »School vouchers prompt court fights across U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable. He was failing in his neighborhood ...
Read More »University offers patent talk
Tina McKeon, an intellectual property law attorney, will present a talk on “Positive and Negative Data in Patent Procurement — When to Provide it and Why it Matters” at 9 a.m. Thursday at the University of Rochester. The free program, ...
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Read More »Dean Mutua re-elected vice president of the ASIL
State University of New York at Buffalo Law Dean Makau Mutua, SUNY Distinguished professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, was re-elected Tuesday for one more year as vice president of the American Society of International Law. ...
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Read More »Recovery threatened by student loan debt
WASHINGTON — The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job. But many borrowers these days are close to flunking out, ...
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Read More »Attorney plans suit over claims by law school
With an 87 percent job placement rate for the Class of 2011, an education in law at Syracuse University College of Law looks like a pretty good investment. That’s the percentage of graduates the school’s website said are either employed ...
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Read More »Citizens Bank offering scholarships
The application period for Citizens Bank’s annual TruFit Good Citizen Scholarship program begins Sunday. The deadline to apply is April 30. Citizens launched the scholarship program last year, awarding $50,000 to college students whose volunteer efforts have made a ...
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Read More »Suit over student’s death continues
A federal judge has given the green light to a lawsuit seeking to hold the city of Ithaca and Cornell University liable for the death of a student who committed suicide by jumping from a local bridge. “[The] defendants’ duty ...
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Read More »LSAT testing numbers drop to decade low
The number of students who took the Law School Admission Test in the past year was the lowest in 10 years, and the 16.2 percent drop in the number of LSATs administered is the highest drop ever — according to ...
Read More »State Police K-9 Academy graduates 11
New York State Police conducted graduation exercises for its 2011-12 Basic Canine Handler School on Monday at the State Police Academy in Albany. The 11 graduates are: • Trooper Sean P. Pierce and Canine Dobber, Troop A • Trooper Matthew ...
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Read More »Regional law schools rank in top 100
The numbers are in. The rankings of law schools in the Western and Central New York regions remained relatively stable, according to the list published Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. SUNY Buffalo Law School, which was in an 11-way ...
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