A gay rights group dispatched an emissary to Kirkland & Ellis to deliver a petition that warns one its lawyers–Pepperdine law dean Kenneth Starr—that history will…
Arbitration of consumer disputes is not the business friendly forum that some critics charge, according to the results of a new study by Northwestern law school.
As a growing number of major law firms delay start dates for incoming associates and make record-breaking layoffs (some 2,700 have been announced since Feb. 27), it’s obvious that worried…
A study of an alternative to the Law School Admission Test found it was better at predicting lawyer effectiveness, but no better at predicting success in law school.
Few movies involve taxes as a central plot element, but that hasn’t stopped members of the TaxProf Listserv from offering their tax film recommendations for law students.
A law professor who banned laptops in his first-year criminal law class surveyed his students about their reaction—and found it was generally positive.
The elephant in the room got its full conversational due Tuesday at a symposium concerning the practical use of empirical research on the legal profession. That would be the economy.…
Law professors with differing political perspectives agree on one thing after seeing the recently released U.S. Department of Justice legal memos outlining the scope of presidential power during the Bush…
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