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If you have Direct Loans, the lender is the federal government. If you borrowed through FFELP, the lender was either a bank or other financial institution. The guarantor is the organization which provides a guarantee of repayment to your lender if you should default on a loan.

The below is excerpted from conversation held about a week after Eric Love competed in the Top Gun XI Trial Advocacy competition. Eric was supported by his second chair, Lauren Doig, and his coach, Professor Sara Jacobson. Top Gun is a unique tournament, giving only 24 hours to prepare before a lone advocate tries both the plaintiff and defense side of the case. This competition was also …

Evidence to prove personal knowledge may consist of the witness’s own testimony. This rule does not apply to a witness’s expert testimony under Rule 703. The threshold for admissibility is low. “A judge should admit witness testimony “if the jury could reasonably find that the witness perceived the event.”. United States v.

I am the commuter many of you hate. Maybe I see you alone at the bus stop reading a book that looks interesting and ask you about it. Perhaps I see you looking a little confused on the train platform and ask if you need help figuring out where you are going. Or maybe I see you wearing that Phillies shirt on the train after the game and ask you the score, why you aren’t a Cubs fan like you …

Projects are picked before the end of the first week of the semester. Projects can include any of the following: 1. Writing portfolio: Students draft several types of documents that are usual in law practices, which are likely to include different types of legal briefs and memos, a will, power of attorney, advance directive and other documents …

Course Description. Armed with the prerequisite, Evidence, this course introduces the student to the law of trial advocacy. “In a “”learning by doing”” or student performance format,” students are taught the basic trial advocacy skills of making and meeting objections, direct and cross examination, introducing and opposing exhibits, impeachment of witnesses, examination of experts, and …

is a former plaintiff’s personal injury attorney who represented clients in almost all 88 counties in Ohio while working for a large personal injury firm. He first came to Liberty University School of Law as an administrator but now teaches full time. Professor Rost teaches primarily in lawyering skills, focusing on writing and oral advocacy.

The Black Law Students Association provided important professional and personal connection that made my law school experience so much more meaningful. No experience shaped my time more at Temple Law than Temple Law Review. As a Managing Editor for Temple Law Review Volume 94, I was directly involved with many of the large scale initiatives that …

Being the first in my family to attend law school, I found the law school application process extremely intimidating and challenging. Even though I was doing all of the right things, I still worried. January 9, 2018. Student Advice. Who Runs the World? Published by Merideth Ketterer LAW ’19.

This course exposes students to transactional lawyering through a mix of substantive lectures and small-class skill workshops organized around founding a small business. Topics include: choosing a business form; client interviewing; negotiation; drafting letters, contracts, leases and other agreements.