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(Reuters) - When Diana Valle decided to intern at a bankruptcy firm during law school, she had no idea how useful the experience would prove - in her own case. Shortly before graduating from the University of Maryland School of Law, the 26-year-old Valle, burdened with $150,000 in student debt and with no immediate job prospects, filed for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy protection. "I was really ...TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - Attention News Editors:The Law Society of Upper Canada regulates the lawyers and paralegals of Ontario in the public interest. The Law Society ensures that all lawyers and licensed ...Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous.Hackers have taken over the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.Law school alums facing a tough job market are suing their alma maters. At least 15 individual class action law suits have been filed by a total of 73 law school grads who allege that the schools falsely inflated graduate employment rates. The suits allege the schools inflated the data, in part, by employing their own graduates in temporary jobs and counting graduates working in non-legal ...Amnesty International branded as 'ludicrous' South Korea's indicting of blogger Park Jung-geun for tweets satirizing the North Korean government. By his own admission, Park Jung-geun has long been an Internet wiseguy, a young photographer and blogger with a cyber chip on his shoulder whose favorite target for satire is the North Korean government.Colorado takes pride in its Western entrepreneurial spirit ? and that extends to the belief of some lawmakers that business owners should be able to use deadly force against anyone who tries to take what's theirs.LOS ANGELES, CA-- - On January 23rd, Pasadena Family Law Attorney Mark Baer received the designation of " 2012 Southern California Super Lawyer " in the ' Family Law' category. Super Lawyers, ...A law that was passed to help families facing protests at military funerals is getting a rewrite.Your Student Loan Ranger was intrigued by a recent report from the Center for American Progress titled "What Can We Learn from Law School? Legal Education Reflects Issues Found in All of Higher Education." In a nutshell, the report argues that the failure of schools, students, and policymakers to respond as the cost of getting a degree climbs and the chances of getting a job that pays well ...Law - Yahoo! News Search Results
