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Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
The University of Arkansas School of Law is the law school of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a state university.It has around 445 students enrolled in its Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Law (LL.M) programs and is home to the nation's first LL.M in agricultural and food law program.
Subsequently, the state law school in Fayetteville was established. The private law school disbanded in the 1960s. The latest incarnation of the law school started as a part-time program that was an extension of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, and by 1975 was given autonomy and became a unit of the University of ...
The Arkansas Bar Association does not control lawyer licensing; that is a function of the Arkansas Board of Law Examiners. [5] It does not enforce the requirement that Arkansas lawyers must complete 12 credits of Continuing Legal Education each year.; [ 6 ] that is the function of the Arkansas Continuing Legal Education Board [ 7 ]
Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction (e.g. territories under federal control) has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission.
On April 16, 2010, Piazza overturned Arkansas Act 1 in the case of Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Cole which makes it illegal for any individuals cohabiting outside of a valid marriage to adopt or provide foster care to minors. [4] The ruling was upheld unanimously by the Arkansas Supreme Court on April 7, 2011. [5]
Timothy Chad Hutchinson (born March 4, 1974) is an attorney in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who is a Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 95 in Benton County. He was initially elected in 2004, two years after his father, Tim Hutchinson , lost reelection to Democrat Mark Pryor to a second term in the United ...
Since 2006, he has operated an independent legal practice. He served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. He was then elected to the Arkansas Senate. During the 2017 legislative session, Ballinger served as chair of the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee.