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Associated Press
23-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Lindabury Law Firm Welcomes its 2025 Summer Associates
Two promising law students, Alix Gallipoli and Jordan DeCrescente, join the firm for a summer of hands-on legal experience and mentorship. 'Working alongside our attorneys Alix and Jordan will receive real-world experience and training across a variety of practice areas. We look forward to their contributions and a summer of learning.'— Eric B. Levine WESTFIELD, NJ, UNITED STATES, May 23, 2025 / / -- Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, is pleased to welcome Alix Gallipoli and Jordan DeCrescente to its 2025 Summer Associate Program. Both law students have outstanding academic and professional backgrounds and will spend the summer gaining hands-on legal experience and mentorship across the firm's various practice areas. Alix Gallipoli is a 2026 J.D. candidate at Rutgers University School of Law, where she is a Staff Editor of the Rutgers Business Law Review. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and previously worked as a paralegal in the New York office of an international law firm. Jordan DeCrescente is a 2026 J.D. candidate at Seton Hall University School of Law. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from The George Washington University. Prior to starting law school, Jordan gained valuable legal experience as a legal intern at several law firms in New Jersey, Washington, DC, and Virginia Beach, VA. 'We are thrilled to welcome this year's summer associate class to the firm,' said Eric Levine, President of Lindabury. 'Working alongside our attorneys, Alix and Jordan will receive real-world legal experience and comprehensive training across a wide variety of the firm's practice areas. We look forward to their contributions and a summer of learning, collaboration and growth.' Lindabury's Summer Associate Program offers law students hands-on legal experience through direct collaboration with the firm's partners and associates. Alongside substantive legal work, the program includes luncheons and social events designed to foster both professional growth and personal connections within the firm. About Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. is a mid-sized general practice law firm, located in Central New Jersey. From offices in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, the firm serves clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Lindabury provides litigation and transactional counsel to a broad spectrum of clients including corporations, privately held businesses, insurance firms, healthcare institutions, trade corporations, employee benefit funds, banks and financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, and individuals. Richard DeLuca Lindabury email us here Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Reuters
20-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
ABA plan to boost law students' hands-on experience spurs criticism about accreditor overreach
May 20 (Reuters) - The American Bar Association's proposal to double the number of hands-on learning credits that law students must complete to graduate has sparked criticism that the accrediting organization is going too far in controlling the curriculum for legal education. Under the proposed change to the ABA's law school accreditation standards, the number of credits for hands-on learning, known as experiential learning, which students must take would go to 12 from the current six. Students would need to earn at least three of those credits in a clinic or a field placement. And none of the experiential credits — which include clinics, externships, or simulation courses that aim to recreate real legal work — could be taken in a law student's first year. The ABA, which says that the change is necessary to produce practice-ready graduates, adopted the six-credit experiential learning requirement in 2014, but surveys of recent graduates and legal employers continue to find that young lawyers are unprepared, according to the proposal, opens new tab. The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar is gathering public comments on the proposal through June 30 with final adoption possible in August. If approved, the changes would go into effect in 2030. Supporters and opponents are making their cases now, before the comment period closes. 'The ABA ought not to be in the business — for the most part — of increasing programmatic requirements that are expensive,' Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor Daniel Rodriguez told Reuters. He also said doubling the experiential credit requirement leaves less room in law students' schedules to take upper-level seminars or subjects tested on the bar exam. The ABA proposal acknowledged that clinics are more expensive for schools to deliver than other types of classes due to their low student-to-faculty ratios but said their costs are in line with other low-enrollment courses. The ABA did not provide an estimated cost to schools for meeting the proposed new requirement but said schools would have several years to reallocate resources. The ABA has not produced any empirical studies that show law graduates who took 12 or more experiential credits are better lawyers than those who took fewer, Rodriguez said. University of Miami law dean David Yellen said in a post on the law school-focused PrawfsBlawg, opens new tab that the ABA proposal goes beyond what other professional school accreditors require. Doctors, dentists and veterinarians complete more hands-on training than lawyers, but those rules are imposed by schools or licensing requirements, not by their accreditors. The claims of ABA overreach come as the organization faces threats from the Trump administration to strip it of its status as the federally recognized accreditor of U.S. law schools. Supporters of the change, including the Clinical Legal Education Association, say critics are overstating the cost of experiential courses and underestimating how flexible and innovative they can be. Live client clinics cost more than large lectures, said University of Washington in St. Louis clinical professor Robert Kuehn, but so do many other types of law courses. His research shows that law schools that offer more experiential learning opportunities don't charge higher tuition than those with less. 'It's really a choice about how schools spend their money,' Kuehn said. 'It's not that schools don't have the money to do it.' Other ABA curricular requirements for professional responsibility and upper-level writing coursework haven't generated the same level of scrutiny or claims of regulatory overreach as experiential education, said Gautam Hans, a clinical professor at Cornell Law School. The debate over the experiential credit requirement also reflects the longstanding tension between clinical and doctrinal teaching, said University of Florida Levin College of Law clinical professor Sarah Wolking. 'The critics are doctrinal or podium professors,' she said. 'These are people who feel threatened by the idea that nobody is going to fill their niche seminars.' Read more: ABA keeps law school diversity rule on hold into 2026 amid Trump crackdown Law school courses to become more uniform under new ABA accreditation rule
Bloomberg
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Chief Justice Roberts Says Court Criticism Shouldn't Be Personal
Chief Justice John Roberts said that criticism of members of the US Supreme Court shouldn't turn personal. 'Criticism is a good thing so long as it is not trashing the justices,' Roberts said in response to questions from graduating law students at Georgetown University Monday.
