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…
Archive for the ‘Law School News & Views’ Category
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]
Browsing On A Sunday: Secret Contracts, Another Dean Goes, and Let It Snow
19
Dec
The story of the missing Megaupload to YouTube gets stranger as time goes on. Universal demanded of the video featuring major artists in support of Megaupload be removed. The assumption was that the takedown request was filed in accordance with…
Onshoring LPO Work Because Recent Law Grads Are Looking for Jobs, Any Sort of Jobs, Even Bottom Rung Jobs
16
Dec
In Ten for 2012: Top Ten Trends for Legal Outsourcing in 2012, Fronterion, an international consulting firm for outsourced legal services, identifies profitability squeeze on foreign LPO firms as one of the market dynamics that will impact the industry next…
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…
"What would James Madison do if he was staring down a four-hour, closed book Constitutional Law final?"
15
Dec
“I mean besides, you know, not writing the Constitution. I like to think he would have just broken down and started destroying stuff rather than confront the reality of his own intellectual inadequacy and poor post-graduate educational decisions.” Quoting again…
Debt To Earning Ratios and Comfort For Law School Grads
14
Dec
I theorized in Monday’s post about Cooley Law School whether the debt load a student takes on is worth it compared to the progressive income levels one may make in a regular job. Coming via JD Journal is a story…
Cooley Dean Says Job Prospects For Law Graduates Are Strong
12
Dec
Nelson Miller, dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus penned an editorial published in The Careerist last week. He paints a rosy picture of the legal jobs market using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. He cites 1,040,000…
Say "Hi" to Savannah Law School
10
Dec
Just when you think the ABA might be starting to get its act together, comes word that Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School has received ABA Council on Legal Education and Admissions approval to open a branch campus in Savannah. [Press…
