In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

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The UNLV Immigration Clinic at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law has offered immigration legal assistance to university students, staff and family members since 2018.

USA Today

The law touches nearly every aspect of society. As such, a law degree can be a stepping stone to a career that can have a meaningful impact on many lives. It can also be a pathway to a high-paying career.

TaxProf Blog

Some lawyers say that little has changed with bar exams nationwide, and there are still concerns about whether the test accurately evaluates the skills needed to practice law. Others have argued that today’s technology could handle many methods of bar exam testing than seemed impossible in 1980.

Bloomberg

The Sixth Circuit will hear oral argument over whether a federal judge improperly threw out a former scrap yard worker’s disability bias lawsuit based on outdated legal standards that Congress amended more than a decade ago.

Hill

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee who captained a detention center in Nevada has been fired for alleged ties to a neo-Nazi website, according to a Vice investigation.

BiometricUpdate.com

Casino executives, industry analysts and lawyers attended a conference at the UNLV Boyd School of Law to consult on how biometrics, AI and machine learning could shape the future of Las Vegas casinos, writes the Nevada Independent.

Nevada Independent

The year is 2022, and you’ve just pulled up a seat at one of thousands of glittering slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip. As the multi-colored patchwork of jackpots dances on-screen, something new pops up: your name, greeting you like an old friend.

Nevada Independent

The year is 2022, and you’ve just pulled up a seat at one of thousands of glittering slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip. As the multi-colored patchwork of jackpots dances on-screen, something new pops up: your name, greeting you like an old friend.

Fox News

With the Nevada caucuses just under two months away, presidential candidates have been making a final push in the Silver State to court one of the most sought-after voter bases – union workers.

Buzzfeed News

Joe Biden, in a swing through Nevada on Saturday, continued to face tough questions and criticism about his defense of the Obama administration’s mass deportations — but that might not stop him from winning Latino votes in the state.

ABA Journal

A small group of people sitting for the July 1980 California bar exam received a unique offer: After taking the two-day paper-and-pencil exam, they could agree to spend two more days being tested.

Nevada Current

Vice News reported this week that a local captain at a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement facility in Pahrump wrote numerous posts on a white supremacist Internet group. While calling facts reported by Vice disturbing, Michael Kagan, the director of UNLV’s immigration clinic, said the problem is much bigger than one person.