Law schools are easy targets for lawsuits these days, what with students suing their schools for fraud or faculty suing their administrators when collegiality is replaced by bad blood. One of the latest comes against the University of Pittsburgh, which…
Posts Tagged ‘law school’
Girls (Strike out that) Law Profs Gone Wild
26
Aug
The once anonymous “LawProf” blogger of Inside the Law School Scam has identified himself. As most readers of LLB know, Mark Giangrande reported that he is Colorado Law prof Paul Campos. I don’t know if the WSJ Law Blog broke…
Welcome to the 2011-2012 Academic Year: The Law School Bubble
17
Aug
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit. [JH] From: The Best Colleges
1L Orientation: Why is law school so different and why 1Ls need to work harder
12
Aug
… than they did in college? Texas Tech Assistant Dean for Academic Success Programs Amy Jarmon offers advice at What makes law school so different for many new law students? on Law School Academic Support Blog. [JH]
More Law School Unhappiness
09
Aug
The saga of Widener School of Law faculty member Lawrence J. Connell has taken another turn, prompting the age old question, “What is truth?” Professor Connell has been suspended by the University for a year without pay for allegedly retaliating…
A Little More on Drexel Law’s ABA Accreditation
09
Aug
Opened in the fall of 2006, the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel recently received ABA accredition as Mark Giangrande posted on LLB earlier this week. Folks may recall that when plans for the law school were announced in…
Opening: Director of the Law Library, University of Detroit Mercy
05
Aug
The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law invites applications for the position of Director of the Kresge Law Library. The Director is a member of the Law School tenure-track faculty and reports directly to the Dean of the Law…
NALP on ABA Job Reporting: Not So Fast There Buddy
02
Aug
There is at least one or more angles to the ABA upping its law school data placement information I’d like to mention. See Joe’s post from earlier today, ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements. The first is that…
ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements
02
Aug
Quoting from the July 27, 2011 press release, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Will Collect Additional Employment Information from Law Schools in its Annual Questionnaire: [T]he 2011 Annual Questionnaire will request from law schools information…
Why is Law School Hiring So Pedigree-Sensitive?
22
Jul
JK O’Connor start his Off the Quad post, Disciplinary Diversity & Pedigree Consciousness: A Few Thoughts stating “Count me among those who think there is a significant pipeline problem in the legal academia” and ends it with Perhaps self-interest comes…
