U.S. Law News

A growing number of professionals in a variety of fields are going to law school to learn how the law affects their businesses.

Northeastern University School of Law, in Boston, has extended its FlexJD program to prospective students across the nation beginning in Fall 2023.

Syracuse University College of Law will be hosting its English for Lawyers program in 2023 for its tenth year. English for lawyers is designed to help non-English speakers who hope to earn an LL.M. degree in the United States

Is a traditional J.D. (“three-year degree”) or an advanced J.D. for foreign-educated lawyers (“two-year J.D.”) better for you?

"Unfortunately, there are many job postings that seek to take advantage of our longing to stay in the United States and the methods by which some try to defraud our American Dream become more sophisticated every day."

Ana Vnukova, of Kyiv, escaped Ukraine on day 10 of the war. She is now one of eight fully funded Ukrainian lawyers, sponsored by CILE, who arrived in August at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law as part of the newly launched Ukrainian Legal Assistance Project.

Here, we looked at six important — and surprising — lessons students can learn from the U.S. legal system, no matter what their future career goals may be.

Every year, lawyers from around the world join the school’s Graduate Studies Program. LL.M. students in this selective program have an opportunity to obtain legal education in the U.S., which may advance their careers back in their home countries or help them to pursue a career in the United States.

Joshua Alter is working his way around the world. The 2013 graduate of St. John’s University School of Law has already lectured or taught at University of Florida, St. John’s, East China University, Southwest University in China, Northwest University in China, Shanghai University, Soochow University, Beijing Jiaotong and Universidad Iberoamericana in Dominican Republic.

The project is important to Bazyler because of his personal experience as a Russian-speaking Jewish refugee. He came to America in the 1960s with his Holocaust-survivor parents.