Anyone wanting to see the complaints filed yesterday against 12 law schools over job data should visit this page from the web site of attorney David Anziska. The new documents join the two filed earlier against the New York Law…
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Complaints in Law School Employment Data Cases Available
03
Feb
Anyone wanting to see the complaints filed yesterday against 12 law schools over job data should visit this page from the web site of attorney David Anziska. The new documents join the two filed earlier against the New York Law…
Another Shoe Drops: 12 Law Schools Finally Sued Over Law School Employment Data
01
Feb
The National Law Journal is reporting that class action attorneys are making good on their threats to sue several law schools for misrepresenting employment data. The intention to sue was announced last November. The schools in question are Albany Law…
Reforming Law Schools And The Job Market: What To Do, If Anything?
17
Jan
The discussion on what to do about law schools finds the Wall Street Journal on the dishing end with two articles. One is about how to reform legal education. The basic suggestion is to open up legal training by making…
Reforming Law Schools And The Job Market: What To Do, If Anything?
17
Jan
The discussion on what to do about law schools finds the Wall Street Journal on the dishing end with two articles. One is about how to reform legal education. The basic suggestion is to open up legal training by making…
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…
Law School Theory Vs. Practical Skills, One More Time
16
Dec
Yale’s own Professor Stanley Fish provided his own response to David Segal’s recent article in the New York Times that berated law schools for not teaching practical legal skills. His lead example is his class on law, liberalism and religion…
Let’s Start with Basic Skills: Teaching Law Students Reading and Reasoning Skills
09
Dec
Obviously there has been much more change-talk than action in improving the legal academy curriculum. Perhaps that is because the legal academy is a bit befuddled about where to start. Even if we accept the premise that law schools try…
Hello Congress, Want to Eliminate Wasteful Public Spending in the Legal Academy?
30
Nov
Why do we keep reading that new law schools are being launched when there is and has been for some time an oversupply of lawyers in the labor market? Because employment prospects look great based on fudged placement data? I…
