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Margaret B. Drew

Drew named 2025 Access to Justice Lifetime Achievement Award winner

MARGARET B. DREW, an associate law professor and director of clinics and experiential learning at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law, was...
MAKING IT WORK: R.I. Public Defender Collin Geiselman, left, and Matthew Toro, deputy public defender, discuss cases in their office in Providence. Now that higher pay rates have been approved, the public defender’s office is having a much easier time keeping and hiring staff. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. public defenders get helping hand, but still understaffed

The workload has gotten easier for the attorneys in the R.I. ­Office of the Public Defender, but it’s still not case closed when it...
REDUCING THE HOOPS: Robert Brooks, managing partner at Adler, Pollock & Sheehan PC, is one of numerous attorneys who believe Rhode Island’s bar exam rules made it more difficult to attract experienced lawyers to firms here. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

R.I. eases bar exam rules on out-of-state lawyers

David Wollin has read about several cases in which the Rhode Island Bar Association’s unique rules for out-of-state attorneys have tripped up experienced lawyers...
GREGORY W. BOWMAN, dean of the Roger Williams University School of Law, says a new required course for students on race and the law will give students some grounding in the historical perspective of the structures of the law and systemic inequities that exist within the law. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

RWU School of Law introduces required course on race and the...

BRISTOL – Roger Williams University School of Law announced Monday that it will introduce a new required course for students that will focus on...

Report: UMass Law ranks No. 3 for Massachusetts Bar pass...

DARTMOUTH – Data from the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners places the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law, with a 92.6 percent pass...
EXTRA MILE: Mary McBride, editor-in-chief of the UMass Law Review and a third-year law student at the University of Massachusetts School of Law in Dartmouth, says professors at the school go the extra mile to meet one-on-one with students and help them excel in the field. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

RWU, UMass law schools exceed new proposed bar exam standard

Representing a proposed new tracking metric, in March the American Bar Association for the first time compiled pass rates for Class of 2015 graduates...
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