184 ABA Journal Law Libraries articles.
Oct 1, 2014 3:40 AM CDT
Known for decades as a polite and helpful worker at a Pennsylvania courthouse, a former director of the Montgomery County Law Library is now headed to jail.
Bruce Piscadlo, 62,…
Aug 27, 2014 10:30 PM CDT
Copying entire books in order to create a searchable database of millions of volumes is a “quintessentially transformative use,” a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Siding with a group…
Jun 10, 2014 10:25 PM CDT
These days the smallest and most exclusive piece of real estate in Washington, D.C., is the sliver of common ground that exists between congressional Democrats and Republicans. But during a…
Jun 1, 2014 10:40 AM CDT
A former director of the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, law library has taken a plea in a theft case over stolen perks he is accused of providing to workers, including himself,…
May 28, 2014 9:20 PM CDT
Recent flubs by Justices Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia resulted in quickly made changes to U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
But not all changes to…
May 27, 2014 12:51 PM CDT
An ABA committee has wrapped up its comprehensive review of the law school accreditation standards after deciding not to make any changes in the last of its pending proposals to…
Apr 28, 2014 10:08 PM CDT
It was reported by The Daily Mail and other news outlets this week that celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was turned away from boarding a Los Angeles-bound…
Apr 4, 2014 1:30 PM CDT
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved a lot of changes in the law school accreditation standards at its meeting last…
Mar 17, 2014 10:20 PM CDT
After several years and as many false starts, an ABA committee has for the time being given up trying to improve upon the existing bar exam requirements in the law…
Feb 9, 2014 4:51 PM CST
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar got an earful of feedback this week on its latest proposed changes to the law…
Feb 6, 2014 9:40 PM CST
The ABA should create a task force or a commission to undertake an in-depth examination of law school price and funding issues, an ABA task force says.
The ABA should…
Jan 24, 2014 1:58 PM CST
The University of Kansas School of Law has been publicly censured and fined $50,000 for admitting two students into a new LLM degree program without the ABA’s prior approval and…
Dec 19, 2013 7:15 PM CST
Northwestern University School of Law has received a $15 million gift from university trustee and law school alumnus Neil Bluhm and his family’s charitable foundation.
The gift, the biggest ever…
Dec 17, 2013 11:30 PM CST
Law school enrollments nationwide are down 11 percent this year from last year and 24 percent from 2010, new figures show.
The nation’s 202 ABA-accredited schools reported that 39,675 full-…
Dec 17, 2013 2:30 PM CST
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