“As Baylor Lawyers, we have a professional obligation to serve those who cannot afford counsel,” Josh Borderud, director of clinical and pro bono programs and clinical lecturer, said. “Serving veterans, first responders, and children through our clinics is one of the ways that we give back to the Waco community.”
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According to preLaw Magazine, the law school distinguishes itself for practical law training due to its practice court program that all Baylor Law students are required to take, as well as its effort to provide practical law training through various clinics and externships.
Baylor Law School hosted its annual People’s Law School event on Saturday, featuring an assortment of volunteer lawyers, judges and legal experts who taught classes designed to educate the public about the law.
In 1961, the machine sang its first words. Surrounded by engineers and programmers, the IBM 7094 became the first computer to carry a tune. Now, as artificial intelligence sings covers of songs and creates them from nothing more than a prompt, we have come a long way since the earliest babbling of machine-generated music.
“To have the opportunity to serve the law school that served me is just — I struggle to even articulate what that means to me,” Counseller said. “It’s just a tremendous privilege.”
“Allison was born in Temple on September 18, 1979, to Joe and Johnnie Dickson. She was diagnosed with Werdnig-Hoffman Muscular Dystrophy when she was 15 months old and was given only a year to live. Despite her physical limitations, she defied the odds and lived life fully and with purpose,” a Baylor Law statement said.
The Board of Regents approved two new degree programs, three renovation projects and the 2023-2024 budget during its annual May meeting Friday. It also elected new leadership.
Baylor’s School of Law was again found to not be in compliance with the American Bar Association’s diverse and inclusive faculty requirement after being previously deemed not in compliance back in February 2022.
Renowned Baylor Law School professor, lawyer and beloved family man Matt Dawson died Tuesday. He was 98 years old.
Baylor 2 Law, a new program being offered at Baylor Law School, is giving incoming pre-law students an opportunity to further their legal education and future careers.
One man remains unaccounted for Tuesday evening after two construction workers were dragged to the bottom of the Brazos River while building the bridge that will connect McLane Stadium and the Baylor Law School.
The Baylor School of Law has a longstanding colony of feral cats on its campus, a colony the Baylor Law School chapter of the Student Legal Defense Fund is working to control through a process called Trap, Neuter, Release.
“Student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapters are law student groups that are affiliated with the Animal Legal Defense Fund and share its mission to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system,” Skylar Simons, a second-year law student and president of the Baylor ALDF chapter said.
Whoever said bigger is better never went to Baylor Law School.
According to the average first-year section size of the nine law schools in Texas, Baylor Law School is the smallest in the state with an average of 42 students. Its percentage of students who pass the bar, however, is the largest.
Baylor Law School students and faculty have teamed up with Veterans One Stop, a veterans support facility in Waco, to offer free legal aid.
Veterans One Stop is a coalition of various organizations and agencies that offers aid to veterans and their spouses, said Maggie McCarthy, the coordinator of Veterans Coalition for the Heart of Texas, who is in charge of finding and bringing such organizations together.
Baylor Law School is partnering with Discoverlaw.org to teach Waco area high school students about career opportunities in law professions.
As part of the partnership, the Baylor Law School will host Discoverlaw High School Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Waco High School, University High School, the McLennan County Challenge Academy and La Vega High School.
The Baylor Law School will host its eighth annual People’s Law School event from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday.
Participants can register online at Baylor.edu/law/pls. Registration ends at noon on Friday. Check-ins and walk-in registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the lobby of the Baylor Law School.
Baylor Law School ranked 24th in the Top 25 Law Schools in the nation, according to GraduatePrograms.com.
The rankings, released Tuesday, came as a result of student ratings and reviews from more than 4,000 graduate students and recent graduates from over 150 accredited law schools across the United States. The rankings use a 10-star system, with one star being the lowest and 10 stars being the best.
In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, McLennan County will host an adoption day at 1 p.m. today at the Baylor Law School for 20 children who will be officially adopted into their families. November is National Adoption Awareness Month.
The event is meant to celebrate the adoption of 20 children in McLennan County and raise awareness about the need to adopt children in foster care.
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will visit campus April 30 as part of Baylor President Ken Starr’s “On Topic” series. The event will be at 1 p.m. in Waco Hall.
Recently, officials at the Baylor School of Law made a blunder that got a lot of people talking and made many more concerned about the safety of their personal information.
Prospective Baylor law students were subject to what the university is calling an “unfortunate accident” Tuesday afternoon.
It was literally a win-win situation for Baylor Law School when adjunct professor Robert Little took his two mock trial teams to the National Trial Competition in Austin last weekend.
A 16.2 percent drop in the number of students taking the Law School Admission Test does not scare Nicole Masciopinto, Baylor Law School’s director of admissions and student recruitment.
Baylor Law School beat out Baylor Law School in a recent American Association for Justice Regional Student Trial Advocacy Competition. The law school sent two teams to the regional competition last Thursday to Sunday in Dallas, where they both knocked out 14 other teams to make it to the final round and ended up competing against each other for the title of regional champion.
Social Security disability laws, homeowners associations, the McDonald’s hot coffee case, privacy laws and the health care reform act will be new additions to the previously featured courses at the Seventh Annual People’s Law School on Saturday.
Baylor Law School is revamping its workshop meant to kick pre-law students into gear with its second Pre-Law Boot Camp.
If you’ve ever wanted to date a law professor, now’s your chance.
Three Baylor law students returned from the Emory Civil Rights Moot Court Competition qualified to compete at the national moot court championship in January.
The Princeton Review has ranked students at the Baylor Law School as the most competitive in its 2012 edition of the “Best 167 Law Schools.”
Two experts sparred Tuesday over the proper definition of marriage before an audience of more than 100 people, debating whether homosexual couples should be granted state marriage licenses and the relationship between marriage and parenting.