Since Russia initiated the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II on Feb. 24, Indiana’s law schools have condemned the attacks while educating students on the evolving situation from a legal perspective.
The Exoneration Justice Clinic at Notre Dame Law School, which traces its founding to a group of students and dozens of white roses, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice that will bolster the clinic’s ability to investigate and litigate wrongful convictions.
The Indiana legal community has recently launched a variety of initiatives focused on improving and increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession.
The Tindley Law and Public Policy Institute has the ambitious goal of launching in the fall of 2022. Marion County Juvenile Judge Geoffrey Gaither is clear that he wants the initiative to become the premier law program for charter schools.
In this guest column, Indiana Lawyer invited us to discuss some of the initiatives occurring at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law that help recruit talented and diverse students.
The pandemic has changed the way people approach virtually every aspect of their lives, and law school is no exception. As professors alter their approaches to teaching to be more accommodating and supportive toward students, some Indiana educators admit they’ve felt the same pressure, too.
Ice Miller has launched a new scholarship program focused on giving minority law students financial support and legal experience — an initiative the law firm’s attorneys say represents the next step in the effort to increase the diversity of the legal profession.
There are things in life you can set your watch to; a national reckoning over race is not one of them, as I would come to find out in the spring of 2020.
Through an externship at Notre Dame Law, students work on asylum cases, typically in pairs, for immigrants in Indiana.
Through its acquisition of the Institute for the Future of Law Practice in late 2020, the Law School Admission Council is continuing to branch out from its traditional LSAT test administration role and offer more legal skills programming at its online platform LawHub. The new curriculum coming from IFLP is touted as helping to better prepare law students and lawyers for the demands of today’s marketplace.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity program.
The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law on Friday hosted national gun law and gun violence experts at the Program on Law and State Government’s fellowship symposium exploring state governments’ responses to gun violence across the United States.
For eight weeks this fall semester, 32 sophomores, juniors and seniors from Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis will have ample opportunity to learn about the law from attorneys with Katz Korin Cunningham and the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana through a program designed to extend the pipeline into the legal profession further back.
Barnes & Thornburg’s new Prelaw Scholars Program covers the cost of applying to law school for select low-income students who have demonstrated academic excellence and personal achievements.
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, IU McKinney and Notre Dame Law School have all started classes with the students, faculty and staff all in person and tentatively planning for a semester that resembles those prior to the pandemic.
Law schools in Indiana are welcoming students and preparing for a fall semester that will be as normal as masks and social distancing will allow.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana is allowing Indiana University’s requirement that students must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to additional requirements in order to return to classes in the fall, finding the 14th Amendment permits the school “to pursue a reasonable and due process of vaccination in the legitimate interest of public health.”
Many summer associate programs were adjusted last year when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Although collaborating through online platforms and performing research and writing from home is doable, several 2021 summer associates can attest looking back that it pales in comparison to experiencing law firm life in person.
Summer associate programs are really extended job interviews. Law firms take a close look at the candidates to determine if they can do quality legal work and fit with the office’s culture, while the students are determining whether they enjoy practicing at that firm and would want to work there after graduation.
Eight students, including an incoming law student, have filed a lawsuit against Indiana University, claiming the school’s policy requiring students to be inoculated against COVID-19 is “irrational and unreasonable” because “the pandemic is virtually over, herd immunity has been achieved and there is extremely minimal risk of COVID to IU students.”