University of Florida Levin College of Law
Where are law firms hiring in Florida? Statistics from the UF College of Law’s fall interviews provide some insight. UF attracted the most employer recruiters (71) from Southeast Florida comprising Miami, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Ft. Lauderdale. Central Florida firms representing Orlando, Tampa, Daytona and surrounding areas sent 45 recruiters. Northeast Florida, that’s Jacksonville and Gainesville, sent 13 recruiters, while Southwest Florida sent seven. UF also attracted employers from throughout the Southeast U.S. and from as far away as Arizona, New York and Wisconsin. In all, the school’s students sat for 1,951 interviews in the fall. Forty percent of eligible students were interviewed.
Florida State University College of Law
U.S. News and World Report has ranked FSU’s Environmental Law Program as the 14th strongest in the country. The program has ranked in the top 20 three out of the past five years and this year ranked ahead of similar programs at Yale University, University of Texas and the University of California Los Angeles. Florida State was the only Florida school to rank in the top 20 of the magazine’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools” edition.
University of Georgia School of Law
Walter Hellerstein, the Shackleford Distinguished Professor of Taxation Law at UGA, has been elected as a trustee of the American Tax Policy Institute, which looks to improve the U.S. tax system by providing non-partisan analysis and research on federal, state, local and international tax issues. Hellerstein joins 29 other leading tax professionals from the academic, government, business and legal communities on the panel, which includes experts from the The Brookings Institute, The International Monetary Fund and Harvard Law School in addition to accounting, business and law firms.
Cumberland School of Law at Samford University
Cumberland School of Law will host in February the Biotechnology, Law & Ethics Symposium on Biofuels. The conference will first present broad public policy issues involved in energy, including the current economy’s reliance on petroleum-based energy. The second half of the conference will highlight emerging issues related to bioenergy and biofuels.
University of Miami School of Law
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will deliver Jan. 26, the Cole Lecture at UM Law School. The Robert B. Cole Lecture Series was established in 1985 through an endowment from the now dissolved Miami firm Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody and Cole, in honor of the late Robert Cole, a firm partner. The series provides a forum for faculty, students and practicing attorneys to hear distinguished jurists and public figures discussing important legal and international matters. Previous speakers include: Supreme Court justices Warren Berger, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O’ Connor.
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