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Law school clinics across the country serve the important double role of providing law students with vital practical legal experience while at the same time fulfilling the needs of low-income individuals for legal representation.  Law school clinics across the country have recently come under fire in the form of lawsuits, threats to withdraw funding, legislative reform, and publicity assaults in the media.  While the news of clinic appointments went out this week to students at BC Law School, other law schools may be cutting back on their clinical programs because of mounting pressure from state legislators and large businesses.

The bulk of complaints against these law school clinics allege that clinics at public universities are using state funds to pursue private interests.  In some cases, clinics funded by state taxpayer money have brought legal action against state agencies and other quasi-government entities. 

Would you like to get involved in legal volunteer work but wonder how to find it or if you can really fit it in with your insane 1L schedule?

Come hear from 2Ls and 3Ls…

In the latest issue of the National Jurist, BC Law ranked 45th in the number of clinical opportunities available to its students.

We ranked these ABA-approved law schools based on the total number

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By Jesse Stellato, May 6, 2008 

International human rights activist and author Kerry Kennedy ‘87 (bio) gave the speech below at Boston College Law School’s Law Day celebration on April 29, 2008 in Boston’s Seaport Hotel.

“As you leave here today, hold fast to your dreams—to your courage and your commitment,” Kennedy said. “And, make America America again,” she concluded.

BLS is holding a Registration Panel on Tuesday April 22, 12:15pm in EW 400. We want to help especially 1Ls get the inside scoop, offer outlines (optional), and generally make the right choices and stay ahead of the curve (in light of recruiting/interviewing season).

Thanks to everyone who has been bidding online at pilfauction.cmarket.com, we’ve already raised over $1300!

We have also heard from a lot of people that they are curious about what is going…