1623 ABA Journal Legal Education articles.
Erica Moeser, president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, says the cause of the current slump is “deceptively simple.” So simple, in fact, that she doesn’t know how anybody could think otherwise.
Sep 1, 2016 4:40 AM CDT
Sitting in his office at the University of Chicago Law School just over a year ago, attorney and professor Craig Futterman was talking about a video almost no one had seen. It was a dashboard-camera recording of a white Chicago police officer killing a black teenager.
Sep 1, 2016 4:30 AM CDT
Legal education is more than teaching students how to think like lawyers, Neil Hamilton says: They should graduate with a sense of how to act like one, too, in a…
Sep 1, 2016 2:20 AM CDT
Anyone who’s ever been in a law school lecture hall knows the feeling: Your foot has fallen asleep and your mind is wandering to a sunny beach when you realize…
Sep 1, 2016 2:10 AM CDT
Facing a Department of Education panel recommendation that the ABA’s accreditation power for new law schools be suspended for one year, the association has responded by filing a confidential comment.
…Sep 1, 2016 1:10 AM CDT
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday vetoed a bill that would have required would-be lawyers to complete at least 50 hours of supervised pro bono work before admission to the…
Aug 31, 2016 8:50 AM CDT
When Aja Miyamoto is a senior at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, she will also take two law school classes as part of a program that allows people to get…
Aug 30, 2016 1:00 PM CDT
The ex-wife of slain Florida State University law professor Dan Markel told a Tallahassee police officer that her brother had joked when he gave her a new TV that it…
Aug 26, 2016 3:47 PM CDT
Donald Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has made no secret of the fact that he didn’t like law school, telling one interviewer that he wouldn’t wish it…
Aug 26, 2016 12:15 PM CDT
A hip-hop artist whose 2015 album Unorthodox made the iTunes hip-hop/rap Top 40 is now a first-year law student at University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
Roosh Williams…
Aug 26, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
An Ohio Northern University law professor who sued over an alleged “strong and tight” squeeze of his shoulder by a colleague has lost his case.
U.S. District Judge Jack…
Aug 25, 2016 3:00 PM CDT
An assistant law professor at American University of Afghanistan was among those killed in an attack late Wednesday that claimed the lives of at least 13 people.
The attack on…
Aug 25, 2016 10:04 AM CDT
Some labor and law-student groups are criticizing a New York ethics opinion that says law firms may bill clients for the work of unpaid student interns.
The Committee on Professional…
Aug 25, 2016 9:15 AM CDT
It may seem odd—and perhaps uncomfortable—for an associate to use Mr. or Ms. when speaking with a partner. But few lawyers refer to judges by their first names, even if…
Aug 23, 2016 1:45 PM CDT
Conservative groups pushing for a constitutional convention are just six states short of their goal.
Thirty-four states are needed to call a constitutional convention under Article 5 of the…
Aug 23, 2016 9:46 AM CDT
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