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21 Nov 7:48 am
... try to present an even-handed report here despite that fact. The Boston Globe just reported that a panel of the University of
Massachusetts trustees approved the first step of a plan to acquire an unaccredited private law
school, Southern New England School of ... to receive American Bar Association accreditation, UMass-Dartmouth's chancellor, Jean MacCormack, said. MacCormack told the board the acquisition would not cost taxpayers any money, a concern raised by opponents. Investments made in the ...
26 Sep 10:46 am
... lawsuit from members of the museum's board. The story was also reported on in the Los Angeles Times: Reinharz said in February that he
mishandled some aspects of the decision and apologized for a lack of openness about the trustees' deliberations. On Sept. 18, ... newspaper,
Thomforde claimed that the WCAL issue had indeed been responsible for his departure. Related Posts: Massachusetts AG investigating Brandeis for
violating donor intent; Judge denies BU's motion and issues injunction Article in ...
25 May, 2007 7:04 am
Today's Boston Globe featured a story about a no confidence vote by the U. Massachusetts faculty against the U. Mass. President and
Board of Trustees. The story mentions strong statements by faculty members to the President, who
attended the meeting. This ... fired at will, or in a short period of time when their contracts expire, are far less likely to speak out against university actions they don't like. To be clear, I am not arguing that the tenure system is perfect (there may be ways in which ...
20 Nov, 2007 10:14 am
... list of people who don't believe you. The sultans and sheiks are starting universities in such as Dubai and Qatar, you know. How do you feel about sand? ... And so on. The
Ohio State Board of Trustees was reluctant at first to accept this basis for performance pay. Three
of The Ohio State University's Trustees had learned arithmetic, ... course, represent the views of
their writers, not the views of Lawrence R. Velvel or of the Massachusetts School of Law. If you wish your comment to remain private, you ...
19 Aug, 2008 9:35 pm
... of the American Law Institute, the Institute for Judicial Administration, a fellow of the American and Massachusetts Bar Foundations, and a
trustee of the Flaschner Judicial Institute. Doerfer served as the chair of the Administration of Justice Section of the ... Bar Association and as President of the Boston Inn of
Court. In addition, he is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Suffolk University Law School. He currently serves on the American Bar
Association Presidential Commission on Fair and ...
16 Dec, 2008 5:07 pm
... Fine, president of Biltrite Corp. in Waltham. The Shapiros have been generous to a number of Boston hospitals and universities. Construction is scheduled to start next week
at Boston Medical Center on the Shapiro Ambulatory Care Center, a nine- ... s company through a hedge fund vehicle and said yesterday that it has lost $12 million. • The dean of the
Massachusetts School of Law who invested money with the Defendant after being introduced by a friend to the prominent Wall Street money manager
more ...
14 Oct 9:01 pm
Massachusetts "universal coverage" plan, and finds it wanting on several levels. Amer asks if perhaps there's something to be ... At the
Health Access Blog, Anthony Wright wonders if AHIP (the Association of Health Insurance Plans) was ever really "on board
2 Feb 11:21 am
... attorney general could "grant a waiver and allow the university to dip into endowment funds," which would otherwise be prohibited by state
law. I don't know much about the relevant Massachusetts law, but I'd be surprised if the " ... . But what it still demonstrates to me is how
important the rules remain, especially for campus museums, because in times of trouble university trustees and administrators will always be tempted to look at their museums as giant piggy banks, with lots of very valuable, ...
23 Aug, 2007 1:00 am
... for More Than $2 Billion in Refco Case The Associated Press A court-appointed trustee responsible for retrieving funds for Refco creditors filed a suit Tuesday seeking more
than ... Libel Damages The National Law Journal The Boston Herald's insurance company is suing Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest B.
Murphy for demanding an additional $6.8 ... if I'm convicted?" said Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University Law School. "If
you say it could be probation or 10 years, that's not ...
16 Nov 12:11 pm
An effort to create the first public law school in Massachusetts got a boost Friday when University
of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson gave it his endorsement. Wilson said he ... The law school's board of trustees voted last month o donate to UMass its campus and assets, valued at $22.6 million. Massachusetts is one of just six ... earn ABA accreditation. But Wilson said the school would not consume state or university dollars and instead would create revenue. He cited figures from UMass Dartmouth ...
6 Nov 8:25 am
... southeastern shore of Massachusetts, is gearing up for the fight of its life. Last month, the school offered to donate itself to the
University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Dartmouth, an offer valued at approximately $22.6 million. The
donation follows the school's failed ... move that was quashed by the state board of higher education. The most recent offer has been met with
both excited anticipation and much skepticism ahead of the November 18th UMass trustee meeting about the proposal. Proponents ...
15 Oct 8:47 am
... case, the debate is over whether the state should open a public law school as part of the University of Massachusetts. Massachusetts is one of just six states without a public law school. That would change under the plan
... over the private, unaccredited Southern New England School of Law in North Dartmouth. The law school's board of trustees voted earlier this week to donate to UMass its campus and assets, valued at $22.6 million. The law school's dean, Robert V. Ward Jr., told the Boston
Business ...
27 Jul 10:46 am
... "three overseers of the Rose Art Museum filed suit Monday in state court in Massachusetts, seeking to halt Brandeis University's plans to close the museum and clear the way to sell some of its work." I haven't read the complaint yet (you can do so here), ... "close" the
Rose but instead to turn it into "a teaching and exhibition gallery." A faculty-student-trustee committee has been formed to figure out how that might best be accomplished. In
fact, this weekend brought ...
20 Nov, 2008 12:00 pm
... rumor mill. The list includes: Bill Brodsky, the chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange who has also served as president
and CEO of the Chicago Mercantile ... America, a director of Starbucks and two other companies and a former Princeton University
trustee. Bob Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management. He's the former ... 2001 and 2002. In 2003, he served as secretary of economic affairs to then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Bill McLucas, chairman of the law firm WilmerHale's ...
7 Aug, 2008 7:05 pm
... have had such courts for more than a decade and Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Las Vegas, Reno, Atlanta, Boston, and Pittsburgh have also
instituted business ... North Carolina Business Court Maine Business and Consumer Court 2005 University of Maryland School of Law survey of
existing business and technology courts Lee ... Nigut of Rush on Business for this link.) UPDATE: The Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court is now on board for the pilot program. Check out this informative Q & A on business courts appearing ...
4 Aug 12:38 pm
... patent issued to prominent African-American inventor, Lewis Latimer, I saw that his home city was identified as Somerville, Massachusetts,
which is where I live. In Black Inventors, Fouche (a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) provides a scholarly and balanced analysis of ... and graduated of Howard
University (but not without having to win a contested dismissal proceeding brought by the university's board of trustees via his own skilled and shrewd legal
arguments). Further study of the ...
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