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Conquering Law School Exams – Top Ten Tips
Learning how to learn the law for exam purposes and demonstrating your learning are the keys to high scores on law school exams. Exam time is stressful in any academic program. Class ranks and GPAs are on the line and it is the one time of year when all the tasks are...
CASA: Home to Practical Training for Law Students
Students and Graduates Do Good for Kids While Gaining Valuable Practical Training Giving back to the community is an important value at St. Francis School of Law. Our professors live out this value in a variety of ways, including providing pro bono legal service,...
Take Your Training in the New California Ethics Rules Online from the State Bar
State Bar of California Plans Free Online Training in the New Rules of Professional Conduct The Rules of Professional Conduct, governing lawyer ethics and discipline in California, underwent a major overhaul for the second time in the last 15 years, in a process...
When Law Schools Teach Law Practice, Everyone Wins
Students and Graduates Place High Value on Practical Training Law schools and their students seem to disagree on whether training in the practical skills needed to run a law practice should be included in the bundle of knowledge and skills students acquire as part of...
St. Francis Continues Focus on Successful FYLSE Outcomes for Its Students
October 2018 and Cumulative FYLSE Results Show St Francis Students Continue to Succeed Despite Dips in Bar Exam Pass Rates The big news in California legal circles is not about the First Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSE), but about the July 2018 California...
Get the JD Advantage – Part 2
October 2018 and Cumulative FYLSE Results Show St Francis Students Continue to Succeed Despite Dips in Bar Exam Pass RatesThe big news in California legal circles is not about the First Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSE), but about the July 2018 California General...
Get the JD Advantage – Part 1
Across the Economy, Employers Are Anxious to Hire JD-Prepared Job Candidates Research shows the Juris Doctor (JD) degree significantly increases lifetime earning potential.1 Certainly, much of that is attributable to the work lawyers and litigators do in law practice....
New Court, New Term
A Look Ahead at Some Important Supreme Court Cases Soon to be Decided An ideologically divided Supreme Court faces a daunting calendar of important cases in the new term. Big cases involving some famous names (Apple), governments (Sudan, California, Washington, and...
Wages of Din: The Perils of Listening to Voices in Your Head(set)
Are We Getting the Truth from Our News Sources? Can We Tell? I began writing about “noise” earlier this year, around the time of an article called “Wages of Din: Bond Noise Over Rising Pay Exposes Stretched Markets.” (Title kudos to the Financial Times of February 7,...
Join Us for Our Webinar “New Court, New Term: A Look Ahead at the 2019 Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court”
The Supreme Court faces a daunting calendar of important cases in the new term. Cases involving some famous names (Apple), governments (Sudan, California, Washington and the US Fish and Wildlife Service) as well as issues including double jeopardy, capital punishment,...
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