Career Panel – National Security
September 28, 2009
Slowinski Courtroom, 4:00pm, Tuesday, September 29. The Military and National Security Law Students Association and the Office of Career and Professional Development are sponsoring a panel discussion on careers in National Security Law. Three distinguished alumnae will speak: the Inspector General of the National Intelligence Office; a Department of Justice senior counter terrorism prosecutor; and the Chief Legal Officer for a company which supports the Intelligence Community. Although the panel was designed to inform first year women law students of career opportunities, the speakers’ presentations will neither be gender specific nor intended solely for first year students.
Tax Benefit for LRAP systems
December 10, 2008
The IRS issued a Revenue Ruling that LRAP programs structured as forgivable loans do not create taxable income for the recipient when the loans are forgiven. For the full text of the revenue ruling check out: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-08-34.pdf
DC Poverty Lawyer Loan Repayment Assistance Program (2009)
September 25, 2008
Applications for the DC Poverty Lawyer Loan Repayment Assistance Program (2009) are due November 3, 2008.
Higher Education Reauthorization and College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008
August 27, 2008
On August 14, 2008, the President signed legislation as part of the Higher Education Reauthorization and College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008 that forgives up to $10,000 a year in student loans for state and local prosecutors and public defenders who pledge to stay on the job at least three years. The law would forgive a maximum of $60,000 in school loans for a six-year stint. The measure was modeled after a forgiveness program available to federal prosecutors.
Innovative Maryland Law School Public Interest Seminar
April 25, 2008
Professor Orde F. Kittrie asked the 13 students enrolled in “Crime in Maryland: Problems and Proposed Solutions” to spend the semester acting like a crime-fighting think tank, coming up with proposals and strategies that will be shared, upon request, with State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler. See the story in the ABA Journal News online: http://www.abajournal.com/news/md_law_prof_turns_class_into_think_tank/
