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UNH School of Law Announces Dual JD/MBA Program with UNH’s Whittemore School of Business & Economics
The University of New Hampshire School of Law, in conjunction with the Whittemore School of Business & Economics at UNH, will be offering a dual JD/MBA program starting this fall. It will be the first of several dual degree programs that will be available to students as a result of the 2010 affiliation agreement through which Franklin Pierce Law Center became the UNH School of Law. “We are thrilled to announce the new JD/MBA program,” said John Broderick, dean of UNH … -
UNH Law’s class of 2011 honored at commencement
On Saturday, May 21, 2011, 176 students were the first to receive degrees from the newly named University of New Hampshire School of Law. The former Franklin Pierce Law Center affiliated with the state university in August of 2010. There to mark the occasion was another first: the members of the class of 1976, the first to graduate from the school. The then-Franklin Pierce Law Center's upstart beginnings were the focus of admiration and nostalgia from those graduates, who noted that … -
Daniel Webster Scholars Sworn in to NH Bar Day Before Graduation
Nineteen members of the University of New Hampshire School of Law's class of 2011 have already passed the New Hampshire bar exam and were inducted into the Bar at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Friday, May 20. In the final two years of law school, members of the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program completed rigorous practical preparation in addition to their traditional legal education and were certified by the New Hampshire Bar as having passed all Bar requirements without sitting … -
National Hearing At UNH Law To Focus On Underfunding Of Courts
The starvation of our state court systems through systematic underfunding is a problem in New Hampshire and across the country. On Thursday, May 26, the University of New Hampshire School of Law will host a national hearing to document the crisis from those who see it most closely: judges, lawyers, the business community and the citizens who are caught in the system. It will be streamed live from the UNH Law website at: law.unh.edu/live. The American Bar Association has created a Task …