African-American and Mexican-American representation in law school has decreased over the past 15 years, even as their test scores improved and more seats became available, according to a recent study published by Columbia Law School, "A Disturbing Trend in Law School Diversity. The groups accounted for a smaller percentage of the 2008 entering class than the 1993 entering class, and a smaller number of students -- 4,060 in 2008 compared to 4,142 in 2003, according to Columbia's Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic study, conducted in conjunction with the Society of American Law Teachers.
Prior to being appointed the youngest dean in Columbia Law School's history at age 35, David Schizer had no intention of working in academia. I was practicing law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, doing interesting work and really enjoying it - and I assumed I would stay there," said Schizer, now 36.
NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following are remarks as prepared for delivery by Attorney General Holder: Dean Schizer, distinguished faculty, proud parents, family members, friends, and, most importantly, the Class of 2010. Thank you for inviting me to share in this moment and to join you in celebrating all of your accomplishments that have been, and most assuredly will be, achieved.
After he graduated from Columbia Law School, he was hired at a prestigious law firm in New York City.
The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law hosted its annual Law Day, an event honoring its outstanding alumni, faculty and students. The award receipeints included: Christina E. Wells, the Enoch N. Crowder professor of law, received the Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Excellence in Research Award. She joined the faculty in 1993 after having been an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Chicago and Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe in Los Angeles, working primarily in the area of business litigation. In 2001, Wells was a Fulbright scholar in the Czech Republic at Masaryk & Palacky universities. In 2002, she was invited back to present a series of lectures on American constitutional decision- making. In 2003, she received the Sustained Outstanding Achievement Awar...
..., Probabilistic Patents (Stanford Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 288, 2004), http://ssrn.co... (Boalt Hall), UCLA Law School, and Columbia Law School for comments and suggestions. Special t...
Jana Leslie has joined the Easton office of Miles & Stockbridge. She counsels clients on estate planning and estate administration matters, and tax issues relating to asset protection and long-term care, special needs planning, estate administration, and elder law. Leslie earned her J.D. from University of Maryland School of Law after she received a bachelor's degree from University of Maryland, College Park. Douglas M. Bregman, of the Bethesda firm of Bregman, Berbert, Schwartz & Gilday, has been voted onto the Columbia Law School adjunct faculty. He will be teaching at Columbia in the fall and continuing his teaching at Georgetown University Law Center in the spring.
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