preLaw Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 11) record FOR THE Awarded Drake University Law School has been selected as a 2008 recipient of the American Bar Association’s Gambrell Professionalism Award. The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility recognized Drake Law School for its implementation of “an innovative and integrated approach to teaching legal ethics and professionalism.” The ABA noted that in addition to the required upper level professional responsibility course, the law school has developed an extensive professionalism curriculum that spans the entire first year. gram in environmental law. He currently serves as acting director of the JD Environmental Law Program. New program •The John Marshall Law School in Chicago was selected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to participate in the agency’s new Law School Clinic Program this fall. Second and third-year students will work with inventors on patent applications and will represent inventors on a limited basis directly before the USPTO. The school was selected from 18 applicants. •Starting in 2009, non-lawyers around the nation who work with the elderly will have an opportunity to obtain a Masters of Studies in Law and Aging from Stetson University College of Law in Tampa Bay, Fla. Courses will be offered online for the broad range of people who work with the nation’s growing senior population, including health care givers, geriatric care managers, bank trustees, financial planners and consultants, government workers and researchers and paralegals. “Trends indicate that by 2030, one in every five Americans will be a senior,” said professor Rebecca C. Morgan, Boston Asset Management chair in elder law and director of Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Elder Law. “This new graduate program is designed for the growing number of people in this country who work closely with our exploding aging population.” Donation Washington and Lee University School of Law donated 30,000 pounds of law books to Monrovia, Liberia. The bulk of the donated books will help restore the once thriving National Law Library, maintained by the Liberian National Bar Association. The books amount to a donation of roughly $75,000. New dean Alan Ramo was appointed acting dean of Golden Gate University School Dean Ramo of Law. He is a former professor at the law school and also served as director of the LL.M. pro- Community Focused Student Centered The University of Denver Sturm College of Law is a private law school dedicated to the public good. In 1904 we launched the first clinical programs in the United States. Today we have five in-house clinics and require all of our students to complete 50 hours of public service work. Additionally, our Chancellor’s Scholarship program provides full-tuition scholarships to students that demonstrate a history of excellence in academics and public service. admissions@law.du.edu 303.871.6135 www.law.du.edu Fall 2008 11 http://www.law.du.edu http://www.law.du.edu
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