Updated: Charlotte School of Law will file a teach-out plan, which the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will review, managing director Barry A. Currier told the ABA Journal on Tuesday.
Two for-profit law schools are not meeting the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful employment standard, which measures debt-to-earnings ratios, the agency reported Monday.
Updated: Spring semester student loan proceeds for Charlotte School of Law students will be disbursed, a school spokesperson told the ABA Journal on Tuesday. Students were informed Tuesday that the spring semester, previously announced as starting Jan 17, would begin Jan. 23 “to aid in a smooth transition.”
The document is more than 85 years old, handwritten and hard to read. Many death certificates from this period are ambiguous or euphemistic: The victim died from a “broken neck.”…
A federal judge in Arizona has dismissed part of a lawsuit claiming the Arizona Summit Law School committed fraud by failing to report information about students admitted through an alternative…
Imagine that you spend countless hours studying for the bar exam. You take the exam. You are told that you failed. Then you find out that you did, indeed, pass the exam after all.
In July, John Marshall Law School’s Pro Bono Program & Clinic launched the Name & Gender Marker Change Project, through which students help transgender people navigate federal, state and local laws to obtain corrected passports, licenses and other documents.
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John Marshall Law School student Brittany Morgan-Glenn with client Hans B. outside the Daley Center in Chicago. Photograph by Saverio Truglia.
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No ABA-accredited law school has ever been out of compliance with a standard regarding bar passage percentages, and that may indicate that the standard is not working well. The ABA House of Delegates is expected to consider a proposal to revise the standard.
Ari Kaplan talks to a panel of industry leaders in a virtual roundtable about where the legal industry is headed and advice for navigating prospective 2017 challenges.
An University of Oregon law professor who wore blackface to a Halloween party violated the school’s anti-discrimination policies, according to an administrative investigation report released Wednesday.
Updated: Following the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement that it’s cutting off federal student financial aid at Infilaw System’s Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina, students say they’re scrambling…
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John Marshall Law School student Brittany Morgan-Glenn with client Hans B. outside the Daley Center in Chicago. Photograph by Saverio Truglia.
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