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AltaClaro Grows Team with Addition of Executive Legal Editor, Director of Marketing

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Donnerstag, April 18, 2024
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NEW YORK, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- AltaClaro, the leading experiential training platform for lawyers, today announced it has added two key hires to its team: experienced litigator, law professor and legal writing expert Patricia Libby and legal tech marketer Meg McEvoy. These hires reflect AltaClaro's strategic growth as it enables more AmLaw and National Law Journal-ranked firms to reduce training costs and stem associate turnover via AltaClaro's science-backed education programs.

Key Points: 
  • These hires will power our growth and help us continue to meet the training needs of the legal market."
  • As Executive Legal Editor, Patricia Libby oversees all of AltaClaro's practitioner-created and instructed educational content.
  • AltaClaro's new Director of Marketing, Meg McEvoy, will spearhead marketing, brand and communications initiatives for the growing legal edtech company.
  • "I am delighted about the addition of these two talented hires to the AltaClaro team," said Abdi Shayesteh, CEO and Founder of AltaClaro.

Davis Polk Welcomes M&A Partner James Dougherty

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Mittwoch, Februar 1, 2023
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Davis Polk today announced that leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer James Dougherty has joined the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice as a partner in New York.

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  • Davis Polk today announced that leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer James Dougherty has joined the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice as a partner in New York.
  • “James is an excellent practitioner at the top of his game, and we are thrilled that he is joining Davis Polk as we continue to grow our elite M&A team,” said Neil Barr, Davis Polk’s Managing Partner.
  • Representing acquirors, sellers and special committees, Mr. Dougherty has worked on many high-profile M&A transactions, including Marathon Petroleum’s $23 billion acquisition of Andeavor.
  • “James has a diverse practice running the gamut of M&A transactions – strategic and private equity deals, board representations and activist defense,” said Will Aaronson, co-head of Davis Polk’s M&A practice.

9th Circuit Judge Paul J. Watford Named Southwestern Law’s First Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence

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Donnerstag, November 17, 2022
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Judge Watford received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and delivered the keynote address at Southwesterns 2018 Commencement ceremony.

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  • Judge Watford received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and delivered the keynote address at Southwesterns 2018 Commencement ceremony.
  • Likewise, Judge Watford gained an admiration for Southwestern and its students, whom he found to be receptive, passionate, and motivated.
  • For these reasons, Dean Dickersons choice of Judge Watford as the inaugural Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence is a natural and exciting continuation of his relationship with the law school.
  • After law school, Judge Watford clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski and then U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Southwestern Dean Emerita Susan Prager Receives Bernard E. Witkin Medal

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Donnerstag, November 10, 2022
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San Diego & Los Angeles, California, Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southwestern Law School Dean Emerita Susan Westerberg Prager recently received the Bernard E. Witkin Medal, awarded annually by the California Lawyers Association to a legal community member who has helped shape the legal landscape through an extraordinary body of work.

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  • San Diego & Los Angeles, California, Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southwestern Law School Dean Emerita Susan Westerberg Prager recently received the Bernard E. Witkin Medal, awarded annually by the California Lawyers Association to a legal community member who has helped shape the legal landscape through an extraordinary body of work.
  • Past Witkin Medal winners include Justice Anthony Kennedy, James Brosnahan, Herma Kay Hill, Erwin Chemerinsky, Jesse Choper, Gerald Gunther, and Southwestern alum Justice Stanley Mosk '35.
  • A legal education trailblazer, Prager served as Southwestern's first female and 11th Dean and President during 2013-2021.
  • Prager previously served in several leadership positions, including 16 years as Dean of UCLA School of Law and President of Occidental College.

New Study from the UH Law Center Finds Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Lending Industry Advertising

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Dienstag, Dezember 21, 2021
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77% of the advertisements at physical locations of auto title and payday lenders in the study targeted racial minority groups.

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  • 77% of the advertisements at physical locations of auto title and payday lenders in the study targeted racial minority groups.
  • Hawkins serves as the Alumnae Professor of Law at the UH Law Center.
  • The University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) is a dynamic, top tier law school located in the nation's 4th largest city.
  • UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships.

UCLA Law Launches Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits

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Dienstag, September 21, 2021
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"We are immensely grateful to Lowell Milken for his visionary gift," said Jennifer Mnookin, Dean of the UCLA School of Law.

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  • "We are immensely grateful to Lowell Milken for his visionary gift," said Jennifer Mnookin, Dean of the UCLA School of Law.
  • The new program will serve UCLA Law students and all stakeholders in the nonprofit sector, convening practitioners, donors, regulators and those who run nonprofits.
  • Horwitz, who holds the David Sanders Professorship in Law and Medicine at UCLA Law, recently served as the reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations .
  • Its faculty are among the most influential scholars in business law, constitutional law, critical race studies, environmental law, evidence, immigration, public interest law, tax and other fields.