As this e-newsletter goes out, 45 high school students from Westchester County and New York City are finishing up the fourth annual Summer Justice Academy for Young Women. Sponsored by Pace Law School and the New York Chapter of the National Association of Women Judges, these bright young women from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds have immersed themselves in a program designed to inspire them to pursue educational opportunities that will lead to careers in the law.

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Pace Law School had a contingent of faculty, alumni, and students in attendance at the Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Brazil June 20-22. Led by Professors Nicholas Robinson and Ann Powers, they regularly posted comments, observations, and analyses of the proceedings to the Pace Environmental Law Program’s GreenLaw blog. View the commentary here.

Professor Ann Powers will be participating in the ABA Quick Teleconference (QT) -- RIO+20:  Initial Observations, Insights and Collective Impressions on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from Noon – 1:30 p.m. Eastern. See the complete program.

The New York Law Journal is again conducting reader rankings for a variety of categories. Our Environmental Law LLM is up for Best Specialty LLM (again) and our JD/MBA joint degree program is in the running in the JD/MBA category. Last year, our Environmental Law LLM won top honors in its category. Let’s repeat!

The voting is open now. Click here to vote.

Mark your calendar for the Pace Law School Class Reunion 2012, celebrating the classes of ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02, and ’07. The event will be on Saturday, September 22, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at 42 The Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton in White Plains. For more information, please contact Jessica Dubuss at jdubuss2@law.pace.edu or 914.422.4079.

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Pace Law Library has appointed of Taryn L. Rucinski ‘10 as its first Environmental Law Librarian. Taryn has a B.A. cum laude from The College of New Jersey and recently received an M.L.I.S. summa cum laude from St. John’s University, with a concentration in Law Librarianship. Since August 2010, Taryn has worked as a part-time reference librarian at Pace Law and created a series of online research guides focusing on environmental law. She has also published several articles on environmental law research. In her new position, Taryn will provide enhanced services to the environmental law faculty and students, continue to serve as liaison to the student journals, and participate in teaching Legal Skills to the 1Ls.  She also recently took over as editor for the Law Library Blog, Pace Environmental Notes (PEN-e), a gateway to news, commentary, legal research sources, new books and articles, and legislation on Environmental Law, Energy, Land Use Law, and related legal topics. Taryn can be reached at trucinski2@law.pace.edu or at X44358.  Her office is in Glass 201A.

The College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA) provides much needed relief for attorneys struggling to pay off their hefty law school loans. The CCRAA includes two components: income-based reduction, which is a reduction of monthly loan payments for qualifying federal loans for any attorneys with low salaries and high debt, and loan forgiveness after ten years for attorneys working in the public sector, which includes government, district attorney’s offices, the courts, and private nonprofit organizations. Last month, the U.S. Department of Education released a new Employment Certification for Public Service Loan Forgiveness form to assist borrowers in tracking their qualifying employment and qualifying payments as they work toward earning loan forgiveness. Use of this new form should make the process for securing loan forgiveness easier for attorneys working in the public sector.

If debt relief under the CCRAA is of interest to you, contact the Financial Aid Office or Jennifer Friedman, Director of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) at Pace.

For more information about debt reduction and public interest loan forgiveness, go to http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/ed-debt.

• 7/ 9 – 20: Summer Justice Academy for Young Women
• 7/25: Bar after the Bar
• 9/6: Trials & Error - Behind the Headlines of the OJ Simpson Case
• 9/12: 2012 Hopkins Lecture featuring Prof. Linda Fentiman
• 9/22: Annual Class Reunion

In addition to teaching, Pace Law School professors frequently lecture at home and abroad, and serve as advisers, board members, and fellows for a range of prestigious organizations. Click here to see recent faculty accomplishments.
(Pictured: Professor Nick Robinson)

Pace Law School offers a variety of continuing legal education opportunities that help New York lawyers maintain their skills and keep up with the changing face of the law.

For general information, visit www.law.pace.edu/ccle or contact Linda Maccarrone at (914) 422-4062.

Upon graduation from law school, our alumni go on to do exciting and impressive work. We value you as part of the Pace Law School community, and encourage you to keep us informed about promotions, relocations, marriages, births, and new jobs. Click here to see what your classmates have been up to. You may submit to Class Notes online via the Alumni Update Form on the Pace Law website. (Pictured: John Nevius)

Local and national news outlets regularly turn to Pace Law School faculty and staff for their expert perspectives on breaking news and complex legal issues. Read all about it on the Newswire blog.

Supporting the Annual Fund provides the financial basis for building an outstanding educational experience. Every gift helps enhance the value and prestige of a Pace Law School degree. We ask you to support the Law School today so you can make a difference for the students of tomorrow.
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