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2018 IFLP Alum Elmer Thoreson (183)

By Mary Henderson on July 23, 2020

Posted in Institute for the Future of Law Practice, Legal Education, Why we keep going

[Editor’s note: The IFLP archives include several student profiles that document the impact of the program on students’ lives. With the students’ permission, the IFLP leadership team wanted to share these with a broader audience. Regarding Elmer Thoreson, after three weeks at the IFLP Boot Camp at Northwestern Law in the spring of 2018, he …

Rocks on the back of first-generation college grads attending law school (182)

By Bill Henderson on July 21, 2020

Posted in Data Points, Diversity, Institute for the Future of Law Practice, Leadership, Legal Education

It’s also compounding racial inequality. The story in ten charts.

My fundraising work for the Institute for the Future of Law Practice has required me to delve into the equities of modern legal education, particularly around the debt loads and employment prospects of historically underrepresented groups. This is because virtually all potential benefactors want diversity…