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Posted by David
Logan
05/10/2012 at 12:57 PM
I am pleased to acknowledge Marek Bute ’05 is serving as local counsel with Lambda Legal and co-counsel O’Melveney & Meyers on the landmark Nevada Marriage Equality case Sevcik v. Sandoval. Lambda Legal filed a same-sex marriage equality claim in federal court, challenging the validity of the Nevada constitutional amendment limiting marriage to different-sex couples, while bestowing essentially all rights and responsibilities of a “spouse” upon same-sex couples in “domestic partnerships.” Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of...
Posted by David
Logan
05/07/2012 at 11:42 AM
On April 16 and 17, seventeen students joined Professors Diana Hassel and Jared Goldstein on a visit to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and Congress.
On Monday morning the group heard the arguments in Christopher v. SmithKline Beechum at the Supreme Court. The question presented was whether pharmaceutical company “detailers,” who visit physicians to encourage them to prescribe the company’s medications, are covered by the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Briefs and arguments centered on how much deference the federal courts...
Posted by Library
Blog
05/04/2012 at 03:50 PM
One of your first priorities practicing law as a newly minted attorney is to determine the nearest law library so that you can access its services and collections! Your state may have a law school library that is open to the public. Courthouses in your state may even have a law library. As a third option, you could pay a fee to use a membership law library such as the Social Law Library in Boston or Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia.
Services offered by law libraries generally include reference assistance, borrowing privileges, document delivery, and interlibrary loan....
Posted by David
Logan
05/01/2012 at 09:40 AM
Our newest student group, the Military Law Society, is off to a great start, sponsoring a push-up competition in the law school Bistro, to benefit the Bristol Veterans Home. Even faculty got in the act, as Zoe Argento, Buzzy Baron and Colleen Brown took on staff and some very-in-shape-law students. The winners in the four heats: Will Wray, Eddie Conlon, Kaela Jalbert and Matt Sinnot. A tip of the hat to the MLS leaders, President 2LT Tunde Adepegba, VP 2LT Elizabeth McNamara, Treasurer SGT Zahrah Taylor, Secretary CPT Christina Needham, and 2LT...
Posted by Library
Blog
04/27/2012 at 11:22 AM
The bad news is that at some point after you graduate from law school, you will no longer have access to LexisNexis and Westlaw through the Law Library. But don’t despair! There are many resources in the Law Library for job searching (e.g. books in the Career Collection) and legal research.
If you are staying in the area, use the RWU School of Law Library! While studying for the bar exam, you can check out books and reserve study rooms until the end of July. As an alum, you can continue to access the Law Library’s databases from computers on the hexagons in the Law...
Posted by David
Logan
04/26/2012 at 02:16 PM
The fifth edition of a RWU’s ranking of law school scholarly productivity has been released, and again the data is being picked up by influential blogs across the Internet, including Brian Leiter's Law School Report and Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog.
Conceived by RWU Law Prof Michael Yelnosky, the study identifies which law faculties publish the most pages in the leading U.S. law journals, calculates per capita productivity, and then ranks the results, focusing on schools outside of the US News top tier; a calculation is also done for all New England law schools.
The...
Posted by David
Logan
04/24/2012 at 02:20 PM
The RWU Law Marine Affairs Institute and Rhode Island Sea Grant recently celebrated the accomplishments of the Sea Grant Law Fellows at the second annual Law Fellow Colloquium, held at the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus. The Colloquium showcased the work of the fourteen Law Fellows on eighteen projects, ranging from the development of renewable energy to determining public access to the water in the town of Warren, for clients from Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Washington, D.C.
The program (one of only a handful in the country)...
Posted by Library
Blog
04/19/2012 at 03:43 PM
Bloomberg Law is free for law school faculty, staff, and students. Access for students is not limited during the summer and graduates retain access for 6 months after graduation. The Bloomberg Law service offers primary legal materials and a citator (like Shepard’s or Keycite), but its significant coverage of secondary and practice materials makes Bloomberg Law a great product to explore while you’re in school. Some of these secondary sources include books and treatises from the ABA and Practising Law Institute, plus a variety of BNA reports, treatises, manuals, and practice...
Posted by David
Logan
04/19/2012 at 09:24 AM
Fresh on the heels of organizing a hugely successful program at the School of Law on the fascinating and timely topic of “popular constitutionalism,”
/blog/tea-party-and-constitution-program-draws-national-experts
Prof. Jared Goldstein has continued to be at the center of the debate by publishing a piece in the Northwestern Law Review
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2011/11/lrcoll2011n11goldstein.pdf
and just last week an essay on the influential law blog “Balkinazation.”
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-presidents-cannot-run-against-court.html ...
Posted by David
Logan
04/17/2012 at 09:24 AM
I am thrilled to congratulate Eden Sears on being the first law student to win the RI Coalition for the Homeless’ Legal Clinic Award- an award usually presented to seasoned attorneys. At the awards luncheon on March 24, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse presented Eden with the award for her dedication and commitment to working at the Homeless Legal Clinics. Eden began her work with the Coalition two years ago at the Amos House Homeless Legal Clinic, under the supervision of attorney Steven Miller. After volunteering for a year at the Amos House Legal Clinic, she took on another legal clinic at the...