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ABA House of Delegates Vote in Favor of Supporting the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

07 Feb

Resolution 102B, supporting UELMA, was approved by a voice vote, “though a significant number of delegates voted nay,” reported Debra Cassens Weiss in the ABAJ News. Did the youngsters shout down the oldsters? Well at least it passed. As the…

 

Round One in Duncan Law v. ABA Goes to the ABA

23 Jan

Last week, US District Court Judge Thomas A. Varlan denied Duncan School of Law’s motion for a temporary restraining order and for a temporary injunction in the law school’s antitrust and due process lawsuit against the ABA for failing to…

 

Fact-checking the Duncan Law School Story

09 Jan

In an earlier post, I speculated that it was probably not a coincidance that Duncan Law was featured in a New York Times article by David Segal just before the law school received official notice that the ABA denied its…

 

ABA Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress Offers Free Training Session on How to Conduct Free Legal Research Online in NOLA Next Month

09 Jan

Hat tip to Amy E. Horton-Newell, Director, ABA Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress for calling this interesting education and professional development opportunity to my attention. The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress…

 

Duncan Law School’s Provisional Accreditation Denial: ABA Asks Court to Butt Out of Its Affairs

05 Jan

In its Jan. 3, 2012 brief in opposition to Duncan Law School’s motion for a temporary restraining order, the ABA starts out making its case why the ABA’s recent denial of provisional accreditation should not be litigated at this time:…

 

Provisional Accreditation Denial by the ABA: A speculative back-story for Duncan Law School’s Lawsuit

03 Jan

On Dec. 22, 2011, Duncan School of Law filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee against the ABA alleging antitrust and due process violations after failing to receive ABA provisional accreditation. [Text of…

 

ABA gives Law School Coal for Christmas, Law School uses Coal for Fuel to Sue

29 Dec

On December 20, 2011, the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education denied provisional accreditation to Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law. On December 22, 2011, the law school filed suit against the ABA in the United States District…

 

What Factors in 2012 Will Be Examined That Can be Viewed as a Federal Public Policy Failure to Provide Affordable Civil Legal Services to the Electorate?

27 Dec

2011 may go down in history as the year the ABA-Legal Academy cartel controversy moved beyond the law prof blogging reformers to receive major legal media and, more importantly, major general media attention by some opinion leaders that has caught…

 

Controversy Over the ABA Denying Provisional Accreditation to Duncan Law School

22 Dec

Duncan Law School of Lincoln Memorial University was recently featured in David Segal’s Dec. 17, 2011 NYT article For Law Schools, a Price to Play the A.B.A.’s Way. In fact, the article opened and closed with comments from Duncan Law…

 

Impervious to Change: Happy Law Faculty, ABA Gatekeeper, US News Rankings All Contribute to …

19 Dec

… The Price to Play Its Way, David Segal’s latest NYT article. [JH]