Law Schools

RIP: Despite His Allure, Andy Bernard Is Gone from Cornell Law’s Website

Cornell Law School may have the Office’s Andy Bernard to thank for an unprecedented 52 percent spike in applications, but his picture was gone from its website Thursday morning. Visitors to the website were invited to click on a series of photos and videos about distinguished alumni—all but one of…

Mar 11, 2010 12:48 PM CST

Study Partly Blames Higher Law School Tuition on 40% Leap in Faculty Size

Law school faculties have increased an average of 40 percent over the last decade, helping boost tuitions that have more than doubled at public institutions. The study by the National Jurist says the higher staffing levels at 195 ABA-accredited institutions account for 48 percent of tuition increases during the period…

Mar 10, 2010 3:20 PM CST

Classroom Laptops an ‘Attractive Nuisance’ and Rumor Monger

Georgetown law professor David Cole is siding with other legal academics who have decided to ban laptops from their classrooms. Cole banned laptops beginning in 2006, calling them an “attractive nuisance.” He explained why in a recent interview with the Washington Post. “This is like putting on every student’s desk,…

Mar 9, 2010 5:32 PM CST

CUNY Spends $155M for New Law School Home, Spurring Outcry

Critics are taking aim at the $155 million price tag negotiated by the City University of New York for a bigger law school home in Long Island City, Queens. The price for space in the first six floors of the 14-story Two Court Square building amounts to about $688 a…

Mar 5, 2010 4:07 PM CST

US News Rankings Czar: Our Methods Don’t Affect Law School Diversity

The rankings czar for U.S. News & World Report has a message for his critics: Don’t blame us for hindering law school diversity. Writing at the U.S. News blog Morse Code, data research director Bob Morse denies that the rankings’ emphasis on the Law School Admission Test and undergraduate grades…

Mar 5, 2010 2:06 PM CST

ATL Says Law Prof May Have Sparked False Rumor of Chief Justice’s Retirement

An exclusive “news” report briefly posted on the Radar Online gossip blog this morning—that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is about to announce his retirement—was soon followed by another “exclusive” report a short time later that Roberts is going to stay on the bench. But what’s…

Mar 5, 2010 12:48 AM CST

Summer Associate Offers Plummet, Hitting 17-Year Low

Reports of layoffs, deferrals and frustration for graduating law students competing for a scarcity of jobs are plentiful. The news didn’t get any better from National Association for Law Placement, which has been collecting recruiting data since 1993. As the U.S. and global economies were battered by “the Great Recession”…

Mar 3, 2010 11:22 AM CST

The Crimson H: Jobless Harvard 3L Wonders, Why Me?

A little over three years ago, when current third-year students entered Harvard Law School, their future seemed assured. But the global economic crisis that struck in late 2008 ended the near-certainty with which they could anticipate a Harvard juris doctor degree would be a ticket to a highly paid BigLaw…

Mar 2, 2010 12:27 AM CST

Water-lawgged

Water rights and sustainable water use are emerging as major environmental law issues, yet many lawyers are never schooled in the scientific, social and cultural aspects of water resources that some say are needed to achieve viable solutions.

Mar 1, 2010 10:30 AM CST

Stock Advice

Though the news has been dominated by stories of wealthy investors losing millions in Ponzi schemes, plenty of limited-income investors have also lost money in bad and fraudulent investments.

Mar 1, 2010 10:10 AM CST

Rankings to Get ABA Review

The ABA will study how a variety of organizations rank law firms and law schools, though debate on the measure in its House of Delegates proved to be the most contentious of any of the resolutions considered.

Mar 1, 2010 8:00 AM CST

Former Law Dean Who Made $787K Asked to Return $60K; Another $350K Questioned

University of Maryland officials have asked the state attorney general whether former law dean Karen Rothenberg can be asked to return $350,000 for a sabbatical that apparently was never taken. In the meantime, university officials asked Rothenberg to return another $60,000, the Baltimore Sun reports. The university contends Rothenberg failed…

Feb 26, 2010 12:49 PM CST

Would-Be Students Clamor to Apply at New UMass Law School

Applications tripled in February after the Southern New England School of Law merged with the University of Massachusetts, creating the first public law school in the state. Looking only at February data, the school has received triple the number of applications over the same month last year, the Herald News…

Feb 24, 2010 4:50 PM CST

Woman, 79, Finishes Law School, Lands 1st Job in Practice

At a time in life when many attorneys have either retired or are putting the brakes on their careers, Alice Thomas is revving hers up. Now 79, she completed her course work at McGeorge School of Law in December and has already lined up a job working with elder law…

Feb 23, 2010 7:41 PM CST

Thomas M. Cooley Law School Buys Naming Rights to Ballpark

The ballpark for a minor league baseball team called the Lansing Lugnuts will be renamed the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Stadium. The law school bought the naming rights to the ballpark, which will sport the law school’s name in time for the season opener in April, the Lansing State…

Feb 23, 2010 5:15 PM CST