Kathryn Abrams and Faculty Members Condemn UC Response to ‘Occupy’ Protest
Reclaim UC, November 16, 2011 by Berkeley Law Faculty
http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-uc-berkeley.html

The police conduct at Sproul Plaza, and the humiliating and frightening police activity at Kroeber Plaza, have caused a number of our students to question whether they can safely come and go from the law school, much less exercise their First Amendment rights at our university.

-The New York Times, December 12, 2009 Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13sun2.html?scp=1&sq=samuelson+clinic&st=nyt

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law sued the Department of Defense, the C.I.A. and other federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act to learn more about their use of social networking sites. The suit seeks to uncover what guidelines these agencies have about this activity, including information about whether agents are permitted to use fake identities or to engage in subterfuge, such as tricking people into accepting Facebook friend requests.

-The Huffington Post, December 15, 2009 by Leslie Harris
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-harris/feds-on-your-friends-list_b_392542.html

“Although the Federal Government clearly uses social-networking websites to collect information, often for laudable reasons, it has not clarified the scope of its use of social networking websites or disclosed what restrictions and oversight is in place to prevent abuse,” says a law suit filed earlier this month by EFF and the Samuelson Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley.

National Law Journal, November 30, 2009 by Karen Sloan
http://bit.ly/8RN2Yd

The University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center have announced improved forgiveness programs that will cover all law school loan debt for many of their graduates who go on to work in public interest law for at least 10 years, making their legal education essentially free.

-Contra Costa Times, November 3, 2009 by John Simerman
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13705312?source=rss%27

At issue during oral arguments at Boalt Hall in Berkeley was a provision of Proposition 83 that bans people who must register as sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park where children “regularly gather.”

-San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2009 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/03/BARO1AEJP6.DTL&type=health

The court said defendants who possessed greater amounts of marijuana could still try to persuade a jury that they had only what they needed for medical use. Neither side disputed that in Tuesday’s Supreme Court hearing at the UC Berkeley law school.

-Cal Law, November 4, 2009 by Mike McKee
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleFriendlyCA.jsp?id=1202435168668

The justices may have been playing to the on-campus audience of students at UC-Berkeley School of Law’s Booth Auditorium, but their questions indicated they’ve given the case lots of thought — and it didn’t look good for DeVito.

-KQED-FM, The California Report, November 12, 2009 by Tara Siler
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R911120850/a

All seven justices are present, all in black robes but something is amiss. Maybe it’s the fact that they’re sitting on a stage in a college auditorium facing a packed audience of eager law students.

Daily Journal, June 24, 2009 by Sara Randazzo
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

Top-tier legal institutions, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings, like No. 3-ranked Stanford Law School and No. 6 UC Berkeley School of Law—whose on-campus interviews are traditionally a feeding frenzy to pair high-achieving students with top firms—said they are seeking small and mid-size firms and those in secondary markets to add to the recruiting mix…. Berkeley also pushed through a hiring freeze to add two career counselors.

The Daily Journal, April 17, 2009 by Amanda Becker
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

The efforts address concerns – health insuranceֽ student loan debt and dwindling professional opportunities – that weigh heavily on students’ minds as they figure out what to do during the year before they join their firm. Law schoolsֽ including UCLA and Northwesternֽ have responded by developing specialized master’s degrees in professional development, extending health insurance coverage or postponing the onset of student loan repayment. Representatives at USC Gould School of Law and UC Berkeley School of Law say less formalized efforts are also under way at their institutions.