6 years ago
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 Liberty University News Service After serving for 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, former Congressman Bob Goodlatte visited campus on Tuesday to share with students some of the lessons he gleaned during his long tenure in public service. Read full news article here.
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Mon, 11 Feb 2019staffOn February 8-9, 2019, Liberty Law second-year students, Sarah Green and Nick Andrews, became national quarterfinalists at the American Bar Association (ABA) National Negotiation Competition in Chicago, IL. Out of the 193 total teams that competed this past year, they finished in the top eight in the...
6 years ago
Mon, 28 Jan 2019Liberty News ServiceLYNCHBURG, VA — Liberty University School of Law will host Volunteer Income Tax Assistance services free for qualifying individuals from Feb. 18-March 5 (closed on Sundays as well as Feb. 20-21). To qualify for the free service, the income of the taxpayer (or the income...
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Thu, 24 Jan 2019staffProfessor Joel Hesch recently filed an amicus curiae brief before the United States Supreme Court. The high court is addressing whether the 10-year statute of limitations within the False Claims Act applies when whistleblowers bring the action under the statute’s qui tam provisions. The Supreme Court allows...
7 years ago
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 Liberty University News Service The Bar Exam results are in, and Liberty University School of Law 2018 graduates posted the highest bar passage rate among first-time test takers in school history, with 95.65 percent passing this year. The results include both the February and July Bar Exams. Read...
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Thu, 11 Oct 2018staffLiberty University School of Law is proud to announce that it has registered with the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. (CFP Board) the first board registered financial planning program exclusively based in a Juris Doctor program. An independent certifying organization, CFP Board owns the CFP® and Certified Financial Planner™...
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Wed, 26 Sep 2018staffOn September 4, 2018, a federal district court in North Carolina cited a law review article authored by Liberty Law professor Joel D. Hesch in reaching a decision regarding the level of protection to whistleblowers who report fraud by employers. The case, United States ex rel. Thomas v....
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Thu, 20 Sep 2018 Liberty University News Service Fifty Liberty University students sat on the stage at Liberty’s Center for Music and the Worship Arts Thursday night to wait for their chance to question the two main contenders for Virginia’s U.S. Senate seat, incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine and challenger Corey...
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Wed, 19 Sep 2018Associate Dean Timothy ToddLiberty University School of Law is proud to announce the addition of an intellectual property law clinic to its expanding clinical opportunities for students. The clinic, which opened August 28, 2018, is the second United States Patent and Trademark Office approved law school clinic...
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Mon, 17 Sep 2018staffThe National Institute for Trial Advocacy in partnership with LexisNexis has published Liberty University School of Law Professor Stephen Rice’s book, The Force of Logic: Using Formal Logic as a Tool in the Craft of Legal Argument. The book describes how ancient rules of philosophical logic are at...
