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AccessLex Institute Surpasses $1,000,000 in Scholarship Awards through its MAX by AccessLex® Personal Finance Program
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WEST CHESTER, Pa., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ For the fourth year in a row, legal education nonprofit AccessLex Institute held its MAX by AccessLex Grand Prize Scholarship Drawing, awarding $270,000 to nine current law students. Since launching the MAX personal finance program in 2017, the organization has handed out over $1 million in scholarships to students who have completed lessons and activities designed to maximize the knowledge gain and behavior change essential to making sound financial decisions while in school – and throughout their lives.
âThe criminal justice system does not always get it right,â Ohio chief justice says
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By: Laura A. Bischoff | Journal-News
Posted at 6:48 AM, Apr 18, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-18 06:48:43-04
COLUMBUS, Ohio â A team of legal experts is studying ways Ohioâs criminal justice system could be reformed so that wrongful convictions are caught and corrected earlier.
The fight to overturn a wrongful conviction can take decades and enormous resources under the current system. The Ohio Innocence Project, based at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, has worked to free 32 innocent people since 2003 â collectively they served roughly 600 years behind bars.
file photo of a confused Elizabeth Warren.
Elizabeth Warren was exposed as an idiot Wednesday after Donald Trump’s lawyer took the stage explaining his divestment from his business affiliations. That won’t stop the unhinged senator from Massachusetts. She will attempt to get Donald Trump impeached, She started working on it last month before he was in office.
So much for working for the betterment of the country.
Warren Wanted Trump Impeached Last Month
Warren is busy today holding a meeting of employees allegedly mistreated by the new Department of Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder. She has low-level workers of franchises Hardees and Carl’s Jr attending. They know nothing of Andrew Puzder but this is classic Warren. She is fake news all by herself.
Editorâs note: This is a letter addresses to the Ohio University Board of Trustees, Dean Florenz Plassman and Provost Elizabeth Sayers. The NEWS received a copy of the letter.
We are a group of Ohio University alumni writing to express our urgent concerns about the proposed budget cuts and restructuring that essentially defund the Center for Law, Justice & Culture (CLJC).
As proud OU graduates, we are exasperated at the news that yet another essential university unit is facing these cuts from an administration that does not seem to understand how central these departments and units are to the Bobcat experience. We echo the concerns raised by current students, faculty, individual alumni, and organizations like ACLU Ohio. Each and every one of us found a home with the students, faculty, and community members engaged with the critical study of law, society, and politics at the CLJC. Since graduating, the concepts learned, connections made, and opportunities pursued through the CL