Law Schools

LSAC Settles ADA Case, Gives Test-Taker with ADD More Time on LSAT

The nonprofit that administers the Law School Admission Test has settled a disability claim by an unidentified test-taker, giving the 22-year-old University of Minnesota graduate more time to complete the exam. The man, who has attention deficit disorder and a learning disability, took the LSAT last week and is waiting…

Oct 4, 2011 9:11 PM CDT

‘Engaging and Fun’ University of Miami Law Prof Is Arrested on Solicitation Charge

A University of Miami law professor has been arrested on a misdemeanor charge of soliciting a woman he believed to be a prostitute. Professor Donald Marvin Jones is accused of offering $20 to a woman who turned out to be an undercover police officer, report CBSMiami.com and the Miami Herald.…

Oct 4, 2011 2:21 PM CDT

Atlanta Law School Tries to Snag Would-Be Students with Smartphone Applications

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School has introduced a law school application form designed for smartphones and tablets. John Marshall says it is the first law school in the country to facilitate applications through portable devices. “Law school applications are down across the board, but one law school is trying to…

Oct 4, 2011 11:39 AM CDT

Ex-AG Alberto Gonzales to Teach as Chaired Professor at New Law School

Initially underemployed after his controversial service as the nation’s top law enforcement official, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales plans to accept a chaired professorship at a new law school. Beginning early next year, he will serve as the Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law at Belmont University, reports the…

Oct 3, 2011 11:23 PM CDT

Nontraditional Careers for Law Grads Include Cartoonists and Service Dog Trainers

Even Yale Law School has a significant percentage of graduates working outside legal settings. According to a guide published by the school, 10 percent of alumni typically work in a business setting five years after graduation, according to U.S. News & World Report. The story cites statistics indicating that law…

Oct 3, 2011 12:35 PM CDT

US News Won’t Recalibrate Law School Rankings Despite Word of More U of Illinois Data Errors

News of additional errors in some Law School Admission Test and grade point average data published in recent years by the University of Illinois isn’t going to make any difference in U.S. News & World Report’s annual law school rankings for those years. For one thing, it appears that the…

Sep 29, 2011 11:12 PM CDT

U of Illinois Corrects LSAT and GPA Stats for Additional Law Classes

It wasn’t just concerning the most recent incoming law school class that the University of Illinois initially published inaccurate Law School Admission Test and grade point average data on its website and in promotional materials. In addition to now-corrected LSAT and GPA information for the law school class of 2014,…

Sep 28, 2011 10:42 PM CDT

Two Law Grads Who Didn’t Tell Schools of Full Criminal Pasts Are Barred from Bar Exam

The Georgia Supreme Court is refusing to allow two law graduates to take the state bar exam partly because they didn’t reveal their entire criminal histories on their law school applications. In the two cases decided on Sept. 12, the supreme court refused to grant certificates of fitness to practice…

Sep 26, 2011 1:23 PM CDT

Scalia Defends Moral Judgment and Law Schools That Embrace It

Justice Antonin Scalia thinks moral judgment has a place in education. Speaking to law students at Duquesne University on Saturday, Scalia urged the school to retain its Catholic identity, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. “I hope this place will not yield—as some Catholic institutions have—to this politically correct insistence upon suppression…

Sep 26, 2011 11:33 AM CDT

Can’t Find a Legal Job? Be the Next John Grisham or Fidel Castro, Law School Guide Suggests

Finding an entry level legal job after graduating from law school can be a tough gig, as many know from personal experience. So the University of Arizona’s law school has put together an alternative career handbook (PDF) and suggests that students keep their minds open to other options. But the…

Sep 23, 2011 11:56 PM CDT

$1M Gift to Law School Honors Former ABA Treasurer M. Peter Moser

The widow of lawyer M. Peter Moser is honoring her late husband with a $1 million gift to the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The gift was made by Liz Moser through the Moser Family Philanthropic Fund, the National Law Journal reports. Moser, who died in…

Sep 22, 2011 6:32 PM CDT

Harvard Law Student Who Wrote Prizewinning Class Paper About ‘Survivor’ Is Now On the Show

A Harvard law student who’s a huge fan of Survivor has already parlayed his love of the reality television program into a prizewinning paper for a class on the American jury system. Now John Cochran, 24, will have a chance to try out his theories about how such groups work…

Sep 21, 2011 9:49 PM CDT

Mass. GOP Urges Harvard to Eliminate Law Prof Elizabeth Warren’s Salary as She Runs for the Senate

After seemingly coming close to joining the Obama administration as chief of the new consumer protection agency she helped create, Harvard University law professor Elizabeth Warren is now running, as a Democrat, for a seat in the U.S. Senate. If nominated, her Republican opponent would be incumbent Scott Brown. But…

Sep 20, 2011 8:32 PM CDT

University of Illinois Releases the Real Stats for Its Incoming Law Class

The University of Illinois has released corrected grade and test data for its incoming law class that is lower than the statistics previously reported on the school’s website and promotional materials. The median Law School Admission Test score for the class of 2014 is 163, not the 168 originally touted,…

Sep 20, 2011 11:53 AM CDT

Fordham Shuts Down 3L’s Farm Program, Makes ‘Catch-22’ Demand for Catering Permit

Fordham University has shut down a third-year law student’s farm-share program that benefited a local soup kitchen as well as students and faculty hungering for fresh produce. The university claimed the Farm to Fordham program needed a catering permit, the New York Times reports. Buyers had paid about $150 a…

Sep 19, 2011 11:56 AM CDT