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  Meyer Memorial Trust Awards Transformative Grant to SBLC
  The Meyer Memorial Trust has made a generous three-year grant to the Small Business Legal Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School
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  What’s that law professor up to?
  Professor Lydia Loren gets behind the camera and takes you to the offices of her fellow faculty colleagues for impromptu conversations about their current projects. If you ever wondered what a professor is working on while in their office, here’s your chance to snoop in and find out!
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  Law graduates perform well on July bar exam
  Ninety percent of Lewis & Clark law graduates who took the Oregon bar exam for the first time this past July passed!
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  Endangered Species
  Protecting and restoring wildlife and habitat
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  Climate and Air
  Tackling global warming and fighting for clean air
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  Public Lands & Resources
  Preserving our natural heritage
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  Cleaning up and cooling down waterways
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  Preparing tomorrow’s advocates to defend our natural heritage
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  Exciting Times for Lewis & Clark’s Legal Analysis and Writing Program
  Lewis and Clark has developed a nationally recognized Legal Analysis and Writing program thanks to its innovative teaching, extensive curricular offerings, and involvement in the national Legal Writing community.
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  Lewis & Clark ranks high in Public Interest Law
  Lewis & Clark Law School’s public interest program ranks among the top 10 in the nation!
• International Careers talk podcast now online!
  Incoming ILSA Executive Director (and L&C Law alum) Will Patterson’s talk on how to break into international law as a a career is now available!  If you missed this event, you should watch the podcast as is the most informative international law career event on campus this year!
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  Earthrise Helping to Protect Country’s First National River
  5/8/13 - Earthrise is representing a coalition of environmental groups opposing a hog farm that could threaten the watershed of the Buffalo National River in northwest Arkansas.
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  Lewis & Clark Environmental Moot Court Shines
  4/29/13 - April 4th marked the inaugural event of the new Lewis & Clark Law School Environmental Moot Court Advocate of the Year competition. Earthrise students shined!
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  BBC News on Lead Bullet Threats to California Condors
  4/17/13 - Today BBC News covered the threat of lead bullets to California Condors. Earthrise represents several environmental groups in the RCRA case challenging the use of lead bullets on Forest Service lands.
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  Earthrise and NWEA Secure Oregon Water Temperature Protections
  4/11/13 - Yesterday a federal judge in Portland signed an agreement Earthrise negotiated on behalf of its client, NWEA, requiring more rigorous EPA oversight of Oregon’s setting of water temperature standards for the state’s rivers and streams.
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  Apply Now for the 2013-2014 Earthrise Clinic!
  4/10/13 - The application period is now open for the 2013-2014 Earthrise Law Center Clinic. Learn more and download the application form.
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  In the News: Sierra Club Plans to Sue Railroads, Coal Companies
  4/3/13 - Earthrise Clinical Director, Craig Johnston, is quoted in The Oregonian in an article about Clean Water Act violations by coal trains traveling through the Columbia River Gorge.
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  Earthrise Clients to Petition New Jersey Supreme Court on CSOs
  3/28/13 - Earthrise clients will petition the New Jersey Supreme Court for review of an adverse decision by the Appellate Court regarding their challenge to New Jersey’s General Permit for Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs).
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  Court Rules for Coho Salmon and Questions In-Stream Gravel Mining Permit
  3/28/13 - Earthrise’s client, the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, issued a press release regarding yesterday’s important court decision on in-stream gravel mining.
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  Supreme Court Decision, Decker v. NEDC
  3/22/13 - On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in Decker v. NEDC. Earthrise Clinical Professor Allison LaPlante, together with third year students Lia Comerford and Meredith Price, submitted an amicus brief to the Court on jurisdictional issues.
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  Apply for an Earthrise Summer Externship!
  Earthrise Law Center is accepting applications for its summer 2013 externship program.
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  Earthrise Faculty and Students Defend the Clean Water Act at the US Supreme Court
  1/4/13 - Earthrise Law Center faculty and students gave their time and expertise to defend the Clean Water Act by writing amicus briefs related to two significant environmental cases in the Supreme Court’s 2012-2013 term.
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  Earthrise Wins Bench Ruling for Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
  11/21/12 - Last Thursday, Earthrise Law Center won a ruling from the bench for its client, Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, to partially vacate a US Forest Service decision that would greatly increase the use of herbicides in Oregon’s Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
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  Earthrise Alum Leads Charge Against Pipelines
  11/14/12 - Earthrise alum Lori Ann Burd ‘09 spoke on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation on two panels at a recent American Bar Association meeting of the Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources.