A judge’s ruling on Tuesday gives a BigLaw partner a chance to argue that his sexual abuse suit against a Brooklyn school should not be barred by the statute of…
The University of Colorado has retained four defense law firms to advise six employees, in the aftermath of an Aurora movie theater shooting spree in which former graduate student James…
With a full year of data to work with, a new analysis by the New York Civil Liberties Union shows police averaged four arrests and seven summons a day at…
We now know the names of three of the law schools that misreported average student debt figures to the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and…
A former United States attorney for the District of Colorado has been retained by the University of Colorado to conduct an internal review concerning its handling of a former graduate…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has decided not to get involved in the business of accrediting foreign law schools.
There are unconfirmed reports that a University of Colorado psychiatrist warned in June she was concerned graduate student James Holmes potentially posed a threat. Now observers are wondering whether enough…
The University of Illinois College of Law has been publicly censured and fined $250,000 for intentionally reporting and publishing false admissions data in six out of the last 10 years.
The governing body of college sports declined to impose a so-called “death penalty” on Pennsylvania State University by shutting down its entire football program as a punishment for the institution’s…
An American Bar Association committee appears to be having second thoughts about its tentative decision last year not to recommend any changes in the law school accreditation standard dealing with…
Sadly, institutional cover-ups concerning suspected or actual sexual abuse of minors are not a rarity. But what is unusual is the scathing internal report made to Pennsylvania State University’s board…
Penn State coach Joe Paterno and other university leaders failed to protect children from abuse by Jerry Sandusky, according to a report by former FBI director Louis Freeh.
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