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Golden Gate University's 14 New Year's Resolutions For Law Schools In 2014, Wes R. Porter

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New Year's resolution-making isn't just for people, but should be a requirement for higher education, particularly law schools, according to Professor Wes Porter, Director of Golden Gate University's Law Litigation Center. "Law schools that continually embrace fresh teaching techniques graduate the smartest students possible," says Professor Porter. To help law schools kick-start 2014, he offers 14 New Year's Resolutions for Law Schools.

Spring 2014 Course Schedule, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Your Career: A Path To Scholarship, Rachel A. Van Cleave

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Golden Gate Dean Rachel Van Cleave interviews Professor Benedetta Faedi Duramy about her journey through academia.

Viewpoint: Coming Together, Crafting Solutions, Rachel A. Van Cleave

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I have previously called for greater collaboration among a broad variety of lawyers to address the critical issues facing legal education and the legal profession. Private lawyers, government attorneys, public interest lawyers, legal educators, and even law school regulators must come together at the table for the betterment of the profession. Last week, two conferences made some initial and very positive strides in this direction. The NALP Foundation and West LegalEdcenter held a one-day forum, Tomorrow's Law Practice: A Forum on the Market, Demand and Opportunities for Lawyers; and the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Initiative held its annual conference entitled, Connecting …

25 Innovative Ideas, Michelle Weyenberg

Articles About GGU Law

PreLaw Magazine names GGU Law among the top 20 most innovative law programs for our 1st STEP Trial and Evidence program.

Jd Prospectus, 2013-2014

Law School Bulletins & Prospectus

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Value(S) Of Lawyers, Rachel A. Van Cleave

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Top concerns facing legal educators and the legal profession today are the cost and quality of a legal education and the job market for graduates. President Barack Obama's comments in August about whether law school should be shortened to two years have generated healthy discussions about the trifecta we are grappling with: cost, quality and employment. These are critical issues. However, it is important not to lose sight of both the value of the legal profession as well as our fundamental values as lawyers and what model might best support these.

2013 Dean's Annual Update, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Dean's Annual Report

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The Best Llm Tax Programs According To Tax Hiring Authorities, Taxtalent

Articles About GGU Law

Golden Gate University School of Law ranked in the top ten LL.M. tax programs in the United States.

TaxTalent recently ranked the top Tax LL.M. programs in the United States. The Top-10 programs in the ranking were (in order) NYU, Georgetown, University of Florida, Boston University, Villanova and Michigan (tied for 5th), Northwestern, DePaul, University of Miami, New York Law School, and Golden Gate University.

The results are based on a survey of 128 corporate in-house tax department employees who were "asked to select up to five schools (out of 31) with LLM Tax programs that they hold in highest …

Law Library Orientation - August 2013, Michael Daw

Orientation

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Law Schools’ Untapped Resources: Using Advocacy Professors To Achieve Real Change In Legal Education, Wes R. Porter

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If the current law school model is dilapidated, then the remodel requires more than a face-lift; it requires real structural and architectural changes. Legal education (finally) must cater to the needs of students. By most accounts, that means teaching students the knowledge, skills, and values required to serve clients and solve problems. However, to reinvent legal education in a meaningful way, law schools must involve and elevate their former second-class citizens on the faculty: advocacy professors, clinicians, and legal writing instructors. These faculty members already teach, and have long taught, in the way that would represent real change in law …

Tweeting - For Better Case Analysis, Wes R. Porter

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Teaching case analysis is always a challenge. The skill of case analysis is critical for our courses and mock trial teams - and for a career in litigation. While jury addresses, witness examinations, and motions in limine involve case analysis, we miss something when this skill is not isolated from other parts of trial presentation. We sought to better segregate the skill of case analysis and diagnose related issues independently. We focused more on case analysis in our advocacy curriculum and created a consistent, written requirement (expectation) to segregate the the skill of case analysis.

Future Of The Legal Profession, Rachel A. Van Cleave

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Many books and articles in the last few years describe a "profession in crisis" with no shortage of demons to blame: many equity partners in large law firms pursuing ever increasing profits, tenured law professors sitting on big salaries with no incentive to change how they teach, accrediting institutions imposing expensive regulation on law schools, and the examples of finger-pointing continue. In the words of YouTube sensation Kid President, "I think we all need a pep talk."

Couple Marks 20 Years Of Helping Gay Law Students, Elliot Owen

Articles About GGU Law

Golden Gate University third year law school student Kate Baldridge was awarded the Michael A. Zamperini / W. Clay Burchell Endowed Scholarship during an event last month at the Coblentz Patch Duffy and Bass LLP offices in San Francisco's Ferry Building.

Viewpoint: Happier Law Students, One Client At A Time, Susan Rutberg

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It's not your parents' legal education anymore. To lawyers who came of age in days of yore, legal education today would be almost unrecognizable. True, students still learn how to analyze appellate opinions, and at some schools, still survive the socratic method. But at Golden Gate University and an increasing number of other schools, legal education consists of multiple opportunities to intertwine theory and practice; build oral and written communication skills, learn the values of the profession and shape professional identity, both in and beyond the classroom.

Practice Perfect, Rachel A. Van Cleave

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Institutions of higher education and law schools in particular are currently addressing new questions about the value and form of the education they offer, due, in part, to economic reality, practical necessity, and public scrutiny. Changes in the nature of the legal profession and the market, the cost of legal education, and most recently the purpose of the third year of law school, have each been at the center of professional conversations, public debate and media stories about reform.

Like my colleagues at other law schools, I am certainly involved with these critical conversations. I am also working with GGU …

Professor William Gallagher: The Practice Of Intellectual Property Law - In The Classroom, Lisa Lomba

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In recent years there has been a lot of buzz in legal education about the need for law schools to produce more “practice ready” graduates. GGU Law has long prided itself on providing rigorous, practical legal education, and Professor William Gallagher’s course, IP Litigation: Trademark and Copyright, is at the forefront of this tradition.

Professor Mort Cohen: An Advocate Professor's Journey, Leeor Neta

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Professor Mort Cohen has taught at GGU Law for 30 years. In addition to teaching, Cohen has taken on pro bono cases as an advocate, most recently in service of the elderly and mentally ill. In 2012, Cohen successfully represented two individuals and the California Association of Mental Health Patients Rights Advocates in K.G. Et al v. Meredith as a Marin County Public Guardian. In an unprecedented, unanimous decision, a three-judge panel in The California Court of Appeal, First District stated that patients could not be treated with mind-altering drugs without their informed consent. It further stated that the County …

Ggu’S New Dean, Rachel Van Cleave, Eric Christiansen

2012-2017: Rachel Van Cleave

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Build On Your Law School Success, Angela Dalfen, Leeor Neta

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Much — perhaps too much — has been written about the skills one needs to obtain a legal job. From our point of view as administrators on either end of the law school experience, it is clear that many of the attributes sought by law school admissions committees are akin to those sought by prospective employers. We counsel students and attorneys to consider how the "soft skills" they relied on to gain entry to law school will serve them equally well as job seekers.

Fall 2013 Course Schedule, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Spring 2013 Course Schedule Changes, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Summer 2013 Course Schedule, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Spring 2013 Course Schedule, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Summer 2013 Course Schedule Changes, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Fall 2013 Course Schedule Changes, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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Student Handbook 2013-2014, Registrar

Student Handbooks

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