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Street Law trains Montgomery County law teachers

June 25, 2009 Street Law, Inc. recently partnered with the Montgomery County (MD) Bar Foundation to conduct a professional development institute for 25 of the county’s high school law teachers. The training emphasized the use of law-related education best practices; resource people—especially Montgomery County attorneys; interactive teaching strategies such as case studies, deliberations, and mock hearings; and new media and online resources. Read more

Amy Schulman, senior v.p. & general counsel, Pfizer Inc.

May 26, 2009 Read more

Get connected with Street Law on Facebook

May 20, 2009 Street Law has a new Facebook group for teachers! The “I teach Street Law” group connects teachers with each other and the text’s authors and facilitates networking and sharing ideas and resources. Read more

Register your law school-based program, gain access to free curricula and resources

May 20, 2009 Is your school one of the more than 100 law schools around the world with a public legal education program? Street Law, Inc. is surveying emerging and existing programs in which law students teach practical law to the public in school and community-based settings. Read more

Video: Breakfast with a Legend

May 14, 2009 This video chronicles a year of Street Law, Inc.'s Breakfast with a Legend program, which pairs local Legends, attorneys, and paralegals with elementary school classrooms to teach about the law. This program is active in Washington, D.C., public schools and is expanding across the U.S. Read more

Teaching about judicial nominations

May 7, 2009 The judicial nominations process is an excellent teaching topic, as it provides insight in to the operations of all three branches of government, the separation of their powers, and they ways in which they interact. Read more

Video: Creating a Pipeline to the Legal Profession

April 27, 2009 The Street Law/ACC Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program encourages young people of color to consider careers in the legal profession. By partnering corporate legal departments with local high schools, students are exposed to positive role models who teach them about civil law and open their eyes to the possibility of a legal career. Read more

Street Law honors former solicitor general, Turner Broadcasting at Awards Dinner

April 27, 2009 On April 22, 2009, at the Fairmont Washington D.C., leaders from the fields of law, education, business, and civic affairs celebrated an elegant evening honoring those who have contributed greatly to Street Law’s mission. Read more

Cleveland teacher is Street Law’s 2009 Educator of the Year

April 15, 2009 Street Law is proud to announce Lori Urodgy Eiler as the recipient of the 2009 Educator of the Year Award. Ms. Eiler is a social studies teacher at Shaw High School Leadership Academy in East Cleveland, Ohio, where she has been teaching for three decades in one of Street Law’s oldest and most enduring programs. Read more

Egyptian students discuss and debate issues in senate simulation

April 1, 2009 The Model American Congress, which Street Law is coordinating with funding from the U.S. Department of State, brings 100 Egyptian students together to simulate the U.S. Senate over four days. Read more

Eighth edition of the Street Law text now available!

March 10, 2009 The eighth edition of Street Law, Inc.’s flagship text, Street Law: A Course in Practical Law is now available. For the first time, Street Law will have a separate chapter on immigration law and policy, and new content has been added addressing the most current law-related public issues: terrorism, technology, and recent Supreme Court decisions. Read more

Update on inaugural year of NALP/Street Law Legal Diversity Pipeline Program

February 26, 2009 Five law firms will be holding the culminating events in their NALP/Street Law Legal Diversity Pipeline Programs this spring. The inaugural year law firms—Kirkland & Ellis LLP (San Francisco), Troutman Sanders LLP (Atlanta), Wachtell Rosen Lipton & Katz (New York), Hunton & Williams (Richmond), and Holland & Knight (Washington, DC)—will all hold one-day conferences for diverse groups of participating high school students in April and May. Read more

Law School Diversity Pipeline program evaluation findings released

February 17, 2009 Street Law, Inc. and independent consultant Wendy Richardson, PhD, recently completed an evaluation of the Law School Diversity Pipeline program, a partnership between Street Law and the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). Read more

Deliberating in a Democracy program updates

February 12, 2009 Last week Street Law hosted teachers from Romania as part of the Deliberating in a Democracy (DID) project. A workshop was held January 23–25, 2009, in Myrtle Beach, SC, to train 30 area teachers and social studies supervisors to use deliberation in their classrooms. Read more

Law department at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. to receive Street Law's diversity award

January 28, 2009 Each year, Street Law presents this award to an individual or legal department at a corporation for their outstanding participation in the Street Law / ACC Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program, which works to encourage young people of color to pursue legal careers by providing them with role models, career education, and hands-on experiences in the legal field. Read more

Resources for teaching about the 2009 inaugural

January 21, 2009 Read more

Third year of Breakfast with a Legend begins in the D.C. Public Schools

January 14, 2009 Street Law, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of the third year of its Breakfast with a Legend program. Beginning in January, 18 classes at seven D.C. public schools will participate in the three-month-long program that educates elementary and middle school students about the law through a series of visits with local Legends. Read more

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