Law Schools

Youths Cite Making Money, Interest in Politics as Reasons to Attend Law School

A survey of nearly 2,000 potential law school applicants by Kaplan Inc. found there is one big reason why many are interested in becoming lawyers. Money. “Seventy-three percent of those students who responded to our survey indicated that the high income potential was one of the reasons that they selected…

Feb 22, 2008 11:30 PM CST

How Yale Law School Decides Which Applicants to Admit

Know someone who wants to get an edge in applying for a coveted place in Yale Law School’s entering class? Being among the first—or the last—would-be legal eagles to submit an application might help just a bit. That’s because Dean of Admissions Asha Rangappa reads all law school applications in…

Feb 22, 2008 7:03 PM CST

Harvard Law Review Vampires No Match for ‘Barackula’

Updated: In addition to his other political skills, presidential candidate Barack Obama can also put the bite on vampires. At least that’s the premise of Barackula, a new Internet-only musical now playing on Barackula.com. YouTube also has a selection of Barackula clips. First-time director Mike Lawson’s political horror film pits…

Feb 22, 2008 6:21 PM CST

Harvard Snags Sunstein; Nussbaum Stays at Chicago

Speculation over the past few years that an academic power couple at the University of Chicago Law School might be headed to Harvard apparently is half-right. Although both Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum have received recent offers from Harvard Law School, only Sunstein has accepted, according to the…

Feb 20, 2008 6:27 PM CST

Ky. Law Students Settle Suit Against American Justice, Doc Buys Law School

A lawsuit by disgruntled students against the American Justice School of Law has been settled with the help of a physician’s agreement to purchase a controlling percentage of the institution and take on its seven-figure debtload. Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti of Paducah, Ky., will buy 75 percent of the troubled law…

Feb 19, 2008 8:38 PM CST

Law School Struggles to Stay Open As Profs Work Without Pay

The New College of California School of Law plans to stay open through May, even though faculty and staff haven’t been paid since November. Some fear the San Francisco law school is in danger of closing after the U.S. Department of Education froze $2 million in funding while it audits…

Feb 14, 2008 3:00 PM CST

Retired Doc May Buy Troubled Ky. Law School, Administrators Resign

Three top administrators at the troubled American Justice School of Law reportedly have resigned after a retired surgeon anted up $100,000 in a loan to cover its immediate expenses while he decides whether to purchase the institution. Paul Hendrick, the school’s dean and founder, associate dean Jerrod Turner, and Wayne…

Feb 12, 2008 6:20 PM CST

ABA Approves Bar Pass Standards for Accreditation

The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates has concurred in a revision to the Standards for Approval of Law Schools relating to bar passage rates, making numerical pass rates a factor in accreditation of law schools by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The measure (DOC), 113,…

Feb 12, 2008 12:07 AM CST

Record-Breaking Donor Ups Ante at UCLA’s Williams Institute

The leading donor to UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute has reportedly pledged another $2 million to its endowment. The groundbreaking think tank focuses its research on sexual orientation law and policy, with the goal of promoting fair and informed U.S. jurisprudence and public policy. With the latest $2 million…

Feb 11, 2008 7:22 PM CST

Lerach Wants to Teach Law School Ethics Class During Home Confinement

Updated: Former Milberg Weiss lawyer Willliam Lerach will be sentenced today for paying kickbacks to investors to serve as lead plaintiffs in securities class actions. His lawyer is seeking a one-year sentence, with half to be served at home while he teaches law school classes—including an ethics class—by teleconference. Lerach…

Feb 11, 2008 1:06 PM CST

Law Prof Backtracks on Bar Pass Post

Corrected: This week, Paul Caron’s blog got more attention than he bargained for. Caron – the Associate Dean of Faculty and a law professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law – ignited a firestorm of controversy this week when he posted on his popular TaxProf Blog that seven…

Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM CST

Critic: Law Reviews Would Publish My Grocery List

Some critics are assailing the increasing number of reviews, saying many are of poor quality and little academic value. Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern law school, is one of the critics, the National Jurist reports. “The writing in law reviews is atrocious,” he told the publication. “Nowadays,…

Feb 7, 2008 5:18 PM CST

5-Semester Option Saves Money, May Offer Jump on Jobs

A new option of graduating from the University of Dayton School of Law after five semesters instead of the traditional six has definite benefits. Although it requires students to work harder in order to finish six semesters of work in five (apparently supplemented by summer courses), the alternative offers tuition…

Feb 6, 2008 11:25 PM CST

$5K DePaul Student Award Honors Slain IP Lawyer

A $5,000 award has been established in memory of a Chicago intellectual property lawyer who was murdered in a shooting rampage at his law firm in late 2006. The scholarship will be awarded to a third-year student at DePaul University College of Law who is “expected to make the greatest…

Feb 5, 2008 12:39 AM CST

Lawyer-Actor Writes Gitmo Script

An actor-turned-lawyer has written a 30-minute screenplay that imagines the deliberations of three military judges deciding whether to hold a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant. Sig Libowitz played a Jewish man with mob ties on The Sopranos and a public defender on Law & Order before he attended the…

Feb 4, 2008 5:00 PM CST