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Digital Fitness Startup Receives Valuable Legal Help from Entrepreneurship Clinic

Cavan Canavan, MBA '12, wanted an easy way to keep track of the lifting and strengthening exercises that were part of his conditioning routine. But in a fitness industry chock-full of gadgets and devices, he was surprised to discover there wasn't a product that met his needs.

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Alum-Turned-Adjunct Honored for Work with ITC, Habitat for Humanity

Adjunct Prof. Carl Valenstein says there were two important messages delivered when his firm, Bingham, recently honored him with a public service award for his work setting up a microfinancing fund with Michigan Law's International Transaction Clinic and Habitat for Humanity.

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Ready for the Real World

Like many first-year law students, Taylor Garrett, '03, assumed that after graduation he would head off to work at a law firm. He couldn't quite see the path that led there, but he took it as a given that sooner or later he'd end up on it.

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MLaw Students, Alums Find Camaraderie on the (Hockey) Bench

There is no shortage of rules in the game of hockey or in the practice of law, but just one in the locker room of Michigan Law's ice hockey team.

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Michigan Law Calculator Helps Students Service Law School Debt

Michigan Law's Debt Wizard is a calculator that provides a simple method for students to explore different ways to service their prospective law school debt. The calculator provides insight into how students can afford potential careers by selecting various repayment options.

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MLaw Grads Claim 100 Clerkships for 2013

For the second time in a decade, at least 100 recent Michigan Law graduates have secured coveted clerkships in judges' chambers across the country—and overseas, as well.

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One Year Later, Exoneree Still Adjusting

Phones that aren't plugged into the wall. Phones that take pictures and play music. Phones that go on the Internet. The Internet itself, for crying out loud.

All new to Michigan Innocence Clinic exoneree David Gavitt.

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Interest in Energy Law Drives New Course Offerings, Student Group at MLaw

Michigan Law's energy law-related courses have increased fourfold in the last year alone as student interest has spread across the energy spectrum, from renewables to issues associated with more traditional forms. Student group MEnergy has led the charge on behalf of students for more energy law offerings in the curriculum.

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Ann Arbor's Song of Summer

Michigan Law's Summer Starters may get an academic head start on the rest of the student body, but they also get a few intangible benefits -- not least of which is living in Ann Arbor during the laid-back summer months.

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A Family for Feleke

Before the lost visas and passports, before the treacherous travel and the frantic search for prednisone somewhere in the middle of Ethiopia, before one father asked another to keep his son on the other side of the world—before all of that, Kyle and Ruth Ann Logue had a conversation.

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COURT DECISION ON GENE PATENTING

Despite the Supreme Court's mixed ruling on gene patentability, Myriad Genetics Inc. retains "extremely valuable" patents on its testing method, and "it will take a while for anyone to duplicate the tests without infringing them."

—Prof. Erik Gordon, director of the Zell Entrepreneurship & Law Program, in a Washington Post story following the Supreme Court ruling that genes found naturally in the body cannot be patented, but those created synthetically can be.

COURT DECISION ON GENE PATENTING

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