184 ABA Journal Law Libraries articles.
An ABA committee has voted to recommend the adoption of a tougher but simpler bar passage requirement in the law school accreditation standards.
Under the proposed new standard (PDF),…
Feb 16, 2016 3:25 PM CST
Suffolk University Law School has found a use for some unused space in its law library.
Legal outsourcing company Integreon will create an office there and pay students to work…
Jan 27, 2016 6:15 AM CST
A former law librarian at South Texas College of Law is suing the Houston school for alleged racial and gender discrimination.
Joseph Kelly Plumbar, who is black, claims that three…
Jan 25, 2016 3:20 PM CST
It’s ironic, according to Yale law librarians, that The Bluebook style manual fosters accurate legal citations while the tale of its origin is “wildly erroneous.”
The librarians—Fred Shapiro and Julie…
Dec 8, 2015 11:53 AM CST
For the third time in less than two years, an ABA committee has proposed lifting the ban in the law school accreditation standards on students receiving academic credit for paid…
Sep 22, 2015 1:55 PM CDT
Legal research company Fastcase has acquired the competing service Loislaw from Wolters Kluwer.
In a Monday post on his blog LawSites, Bob Ambrogi reported that the transaction is an…
Sep 21, 2015 2:30 PM CDT
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined that the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law is violating the Equal Pay Act by paying its female professors less than males.
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Sep 1, 2015 4:45 AM CDT
Indiana Tech Law School has been denied its bid for provisional accreditation by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
The two-year-old school was notified of…
Jun 10, 2015 4:30 PM CDT
An ABA committee is recommending the elimination of a rule that allows most law schools to admit up to 10 percent of their entering classes with students who haven’t taken…
May 4, 2015 4:30 PM CDT
The job outlook for new lawyers is improving, recent figures show.
That may have as much to do with fewer law school graduates looking for work than to any actual…
Apr 29, 2015 4:30 PM CDT
A service that enables courts and researchers to make permanent links to research found on the Web has won a Webby Award for best legal site of 2015.
…Apr 27, 2015 10:55 AM CDT
Law schools would be required to provide more detailed information about attrition rates for admitted students under a proposed change in the reporting requirements being requested by an ABA committee.
…Feb 17, 2015 5:00 PM CST
Kaye Scholer has moved to a new headquarters in Manhattan with dramatically smaller library space.
The law firm didn’t take about 95 percent of its library, made up of tens…
Oct 23, 2014 7:46 AM CDT
Elon University School of Law has announced the creation of a new curriculum that represents what the school is calling a groundbreaking new model for legal education.
The new curriculum,…
Oct 9, 2014 4:55 PM CDT
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