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…
Posts Tagged ‘Schools’
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…
Federal Judge Offers Ideas To Reform the Teaching of Law
09
Jan
Judge José A. Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was the lunchtime speaker at the Association of American Law Schools’ gathering last Friday. He was pretty blunt about his view of the current state of law schools, suggesting…
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…
Newsflash: Law Schools Don’t Teach Law Students To Be Lawyers
22
Nov
There was an article published in the New York Times last Sunday, What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering, and it’s worth reading, even if we knew most of it already. In summary, the legal academy doesn’t teach law students…
Short Takes On The News: Law Schools and The Supreme Court
24
Oct
Robert V. Ward Jr., Dean of the University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth School Of Law, resigned at the end of last week citing health reasons. There are some questions hovering over the resignation due to an audit of University credit card…
Moneyball-ing Legal Services (and Law Schools and Law Libraries)
13
Oct
We shouldn’t be surprised that the new film, Moneyball, would lead to a discussion of the applicability of Moneyball-ing law firm hiring and retention, and the value of legal services provided to clients. Heck, seven years before the movie and…
15 More Law Schools Being Sued Targeted: Class Action Complaints Would Challenge Placement Stats (Updated)
05
Oct
Update: Karen Sloan is reporting the following based on a conference call with David Anziska and Jesse Strauss covering the law schools they are targeting for class action lawsuits: They have yet to secure enough name plaintiffs for those suits,…
Applications Are Down At Law Schools – Does It Matter?
27
Sep
The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting on the drop in law school applicants nationally and at law schools located in Minneapolis. The latest statistics from the Law School Admissions Council shows an 18.7% drop in LSATs administered in June of…
