Tag: Florida Coastal School of Law
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Jim RosicaSeptember 19, 2016
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Florida law school students’ downward spiral continues, with only 68.2 percent passing the latest state bar exam. The state’s Board of Bar Examiners on Monday released the figures for the July 26-27 examination. The results are for first-time test takers only. This July’s overall pass rate was 0.7 percent lower than last year’s, of 68.9 percent. In 2014, it was 71.8 […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 11, 2016
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Before the meeting of the Jacksonville Area Refugee Task Force on Wednesday, sponsored by the Department of Children and Families here and throughout the state, this writer was spoke with Elaine Carson of World Relief Jacksonville.  The faith-based organization helps refugees and those in need of political asylum, with a recent concentration on Burmese and Eritrean resettlement in the […]

Melissa RossNovember 24, 2015
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As NATO’s chief calls for calm and “de-escalation” after news that Turkey shot down a Russian warplane at the Syrian border, Florida Coastal School of Law took the issue local with a Tuesday panel discussion on the Syrian refugee crisis and the legal issues around refugee resettlement. Also on the agenda, the recent U.S. House bill blocking refugee resettlement […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 21, 2015
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Here’s the good news: Florida International University College of Law had the highest bar exam passage rate of the state’s 11 law schools, according to results released Monday. But much of the rest of the results were otherwise depressed, as Florida joins a national trend of bar exam scores taking a nosedive. Scores from the state’s July examination […]

Melissa RossJune 8, 2015
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As Florida legislators try to iron out their differences over the state’s major budget items, advocates for Florida’s nearly 1 million uninsured are speaking out about Friday’s House vote rejecting  the Senate’s Medicaide expansion compromise. “It really is kind of a dire situation,” said Sarah Sullivan, director of Florida Coastal School of Law’s Disability and Public […]


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