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Avoiding Discipline

Avoiding the State Bar Discipline System: A Workshop

March 15, 2013

“We see a lot of good people do bad things,” said Kristin Ritsema, who appeared at TJSL on Friday, March 15, for an MCLE presentation by TJSL’s Center for Solo Practitioners called “Avoiding the...

Networking

TJSL Alumni Association Presents Networking DOs and DON'Ts

March 14, 2013

Networking is one of the most important tools of the trade when it comes to getting established in the legal profession. But as those students who attended the TJSL Alumni Associations Networking...

TJSL's First JSD Degree Awarded

TJSL’s First JSD Dissertation Defense was a Global Affair

March 11, 2013

On February 22, TJSL’s online doctoral (JSD) program conducted its first dissertation defense, called a “rigorosum.”  “JSD” stands for a Latin phrase that means “Doctor of the Science of Law.”  A...

VITA Tax Clinic

VITA Tax Clinic at TJSL is Open to Prepare Free Tax Return Services

March 11, 2013

From now until April 11, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program operated by Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Tax Law Society, a student organization, will provide free income tax...

Death Penalty

National Lawyers Guild Presents Death Penalty Panel at TJSL

March 8, 2013

Is the death penalty a deterrent to crime?  Is it worth the huge amount of money that states have to spend on executing death row inmates?

These are two important questions, that have been...

Performance Rights

Public Performance Rights for Music: Pay it to Play it?

March 8, 2013

It seems like everywhere we go there is music: On our car radios, in our workplace, in restaurants, health clubs and night clubs. Even in our dentist’s office.

And anytime we hear music in...

Veterans Self-Help Clinic

TJSL Opening a Veterans Self-Help Legal Clinic

March 7, 2013

Thomas Jefferson School of Law will open a Veterans Self-Help Legal Clinic on March 20 to help former military service members with their legal needs. The veterans will be assisted by volunteer...

Patent Clinic

TJSL Patent Clinic Files its First Application

March 6, 2013

How many of us have ever had an idea and thought to ourselves: “Hey, I should patent that.”

That’s exactly what inventor Kathryn Rendon is doing with the help of the Patent Clinic that is...

Women of Color

TJSL Students Attend Lawyers Club Women of Color Celebration

March 4, 2013

By Samantha Morales 2L

Lawyers Club of San Diego held its first annual International Women of Color Day Celebration on Friday, March 1, with several students from Thomas...

EVA Meeting

TJSL Co-Hosts Town Hall Meeting

March 1, 2013

Local officials, including San Diego’s Chief of Police and representatives from the District Attorney and City Attorney’s Offices, among others, gathered at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on Feb....

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