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The Indiana Daily Student

National Jurist names IU professor most influential

In the Jan. 2015 edition of the National Jurist, IU Maurer School of Law professor William Henderson was named the most influential person in legal education.

Henderson has been ranked second on the same list by the National Jurist the past two years.

A reason Henderson was given a high ranking was because a course he and other faculty created, B614: The Legal Profession, in 2009, according to an IU press release. It’s a four-credit hour course that the school now requires and covers ethics, competencies and economics within the law career track.

With the ranking the magazine also wrote of Henderson, “Few have been as committed to analyzing legal education and offering concepts for reform as Henderson.

His fellow co-workers also believe Henderson is worthy of the ranking.

“The National Jurist’s ranking confirms what we in the legal education circle have known for years: that Bill Henderson is one of, if not the most, influential voices in the country when it comes to explaining and understanding changes occurring in large law firms and the legal profession,” Austen L. Parrish, the dean of the Maurer School of Law said in a press release.

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