Law Schools

Just in Time for Summer Associates: Lessons About Law Firm Job Success

Not sure about e-mail ettiquette or what’s expected at a law firm social event? Professors from Suffolk University Law School and other legal writing professors from around the country may well have the answers for you. The Boston school’s well-regarded legal research and writing program has organized a free 19-podcast…

May 29, 2008 8:54 PM CDT

Diplomas and No Tuition Debt for 16 NYU Law Grads

Thanks to an alumni fundraising drive, 16 graduates of New York University School of Law are headed to public interest careers with no tuition debt. For the first time in years, a law school scholarship program has been able to cover three years of tuition—which ordinarily would have cost about…

May 29, 2008 8:16 PM CDT

SG Paul Clement to Teach at Georgetown Law School

Updated: Outgoing Solicitor General Paul Clement will join Georgetown law school as a visiting law professor and a senior fellow at the school’s Supreme Court Institute. Two weeks ago, Clement had announced he will resign from the Justice Department on June 2, but he did not indicate his future plans.…

May 29, 2008 3:27 PM CDT

Law School Dean to be Ohio AG on Interim Basis

The governor of Ohio is replacing the state’s former attorney general, Marc Dann, with Nancy Hardin Rogers, the dean of Ohio State University’s law school. She will serve until a new attorney general is elected, taking a leave of absence from the law school in order to do so, reports…

May 28, 2008 7:37 PM CDT

Bloggers Hit Hard on Harvard Law Review Note

A recent note in the Harvard Law Review has sparked a firestorm of criticism in the legal blogging world. The law student-authored article “basically says that anyone who doesn’t go in to public interest work is immoral and is killing babies in third world countries (most of this analysis is…

May 28, 2008 6:31 PM CDT

Two More High-Profile Law Profs Lured from George Mason to Chapman

George Mason University law professor Ronald Rotunda is joining Chapman law school along with his wife, Kyndra, an expert on military personnel and disability law. Rotunda has written a well-known case book on legal ethics and has helped emerging democracies craft constitutions and legal codes. He will help Chapman create…

May 28, 2008 5:11 PM CDT

Money Matters, But So Does the Work, New Law Grads Say

Money matters. But some new associates are prepared to make a bit less in exchange for a better lifestyle. “I’m not going to lie,” Sebastian Kurian, who starts this fall at Miles & Stockbridge, tells the Daily Record. “It definitely played a big role, but at the same time, Miles…

May 27, 2008 4:30 PM CDT

Jerry Springer’s Words of Wisdom Win Over Skeptical NU Grads

Students at Northwestern University School of Law protested when they heard that television reality show host and NU law grad Jerry Springer was to be their commencement speaker. But when they heard what he had to say last week, he got a standing ovation from about half of the audience,…

May 21, 2008 5:47 PM CDT

Phyllis Schlafly Hon. Degree Sparks Wash U Spat, Law Prof Protest

Ever the conservative gadfly, attorney and political activist Phyllis Schlafly, didn’t hesitate to say what she thought when law professors, among others, complained about a planned award of an honorary degree to her today by Washington University in St. Louis. Her critics are “a bunch of losers,” says Schlafly, 83,…

May 16, 2008 4:06 PM CDT

New Law Dean at UC Davis is First Latino in the Position

Kevin Johnson was confirmed today as the new law school dean at the University of California at Davis by the school’s board of regents. He is the first Latino to be appointed dean of any of the law schools in the UC system, according to a press release. Johnson, 49,…

May 16, 2008 12:30 AM CDT

‘Steep Mountain’ for FAMU to Climb to Full Accreditation, ABA Report Says

A fledgling law school at Florida A&M University reportedly is facing a tough accreditation battle, after a negative report by the American Bar Association earlier this year. But it’s a battle that can still be won, the law school’s new dean says. A seven-member ABA accreditation team that visited the…

May 14, 2008 8:33 PM CDT

Students Rally Around Law Prof Struggling With ALS

Florida State law professor Steven Gey told his students last month that he can no longer teach because Lou Gehrig’s disease is sapping his ability to speak, eat and even breathe. His students are praying for him, even though Gey is an ACLU lawyer who defends separation of church and…

May 14, 2008 5:23 PM CDT

W. Va. Law School Gets $8M in Unclaimed Settlement Money

West Virginia University’s law school will get $8 million in unclaimed settlement proceeds from a class-action lawsuit against H&R Block. The money is the largest gift ever made to the law school, the Charleston Gazette reports. Judge Duke Bloom suggested giving the money to the law school. Lawyers from both…

May 6, 2008 2:54 PM CDT

U.C. Berkeley’s ‘New Hire’ Fares Poorly in Tests

Bloggers are talking about U.C. Berkeley law school’s latest new hire, identified on its website as “test dummy.” The Legal Profession Blog notes the error in a post that pictures a crash test dummy and comments on the new hire’s dress. (“Dude, buy a suit.”) The blog Nuts & Boalts…

May 5, 2008 2:24 PM CDT

Yale 1L Bemoans ‘Almost-Darwinian’ Admissions Race and the Not-So-Nice Winners

A first-year law student at Yale takes on her Ivy League colleagues who don’t always practice what they preach about making the world a better place. In an opinion column published by the Washington Post, student Amelia Rawls writes that her sister, who just won acceptance at an Ivy League…

May 2, 2008 11:10 AM CDT