LA VERNE - More than 110 students on Sunday received University of La Verne College of Law Juris Doctorate degrees. Retiring University of La Verne president Steve Morgan and Bruce MacDonald, a retired Navy vice admiral, received honorary degrees. MacDonald was the commencement speaker.
Beyond all the Web site promotions and notable graduates law schools tout, Missouri Lawyers Weekly also studied a reason for notoriety. The newspaper researched where recently disbarred attorneys earned their law degrees. The Missouri Board of Law Examiners tracks where attorneys went for law school but refused to share the data and said it does not fall under the state Sunshine Law.
PROVO -- Whether a woman uses her law degree to prosecute white- collar crime, draw up legal contracts or help her 11-year-old son with algebra, the educational experience itself is life changing and beneficial. Education is necessary for fulfilling life's purposes," Nancy Stevenson Van Slooten told a predominantly female audience at BYU last week. "That's really what it's about. Everybody has a different mission. Everyone will apply their education differently, it's not cookie cutter for everyone.
Husson University's trustees announced Monday that they are suspending further efforts to offer law degrees at the university in Bangor. Their decision followed the Maine Supreme Judicial Court's ruling March 4 that Husson's graduates would not be allowed to take the state's bar exam.
PORTLAND - The University of Maine School of Law has announced local students who graduated with degrees of juris doctor in May. Nicholas Charles Bournakel of Lewiston, Bates College; Steven Linn Davies of Topsham, University of Southern Maine; Sarah A. Davis of Bridgton, Clark University, graduated cum laude; Ryan Patrick Dumais of Winthrop, Catholic University of America, magna cum laude; Mara Rose Hunter of Auburn, Wheaton College.
WHEN SHAKESPEARE'S character Dick the Butcher uttered his most famous line, he didn't have Washington in mind. But with 40 percent of Congress holding law degrees, "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" hits close to home. Granted, it's not an acceptable solution to government dysfunction - Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world - but concern for the overabundance of attorneys on Capitol Hill has a long and storied history. The numbers have actually come down in recent years. Twenty years ago, it was closer to 50 percent. On the other side of the ledger, I was one of just seven House members with an engineering degree, and an army of one while in the Senate. When Ted Kaufman of Delaware retired last year - like me, he was trained as a mechani...
The holiday season has come to an end and many are now preparing for that other favorite time of year - tax season. Accountants and tax lawyers will keep busy going over their clients' returns - searching for deductions and write-offs - right up until midnight on April 15.
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