1627 ABA Journal Legal Education articles.
A rental car company may have prevented two murder suspects in the death of a Florida State University law professor from carrying out the crime in an earlier attempt, prosecutors…
Jun 24, 2016 2:58 PM CDT
A Department of Education panel on Wednesday recommended that the ABA’s accreditation power for new law schools be suspended for one year, on the basis that the organization failed to…
Jun 24, 2016 2:00 PM CDT
Tuition is about $39,000—total—at California Southern Law School, and if you’re interested, now is the time. Owners of the non-accredited Riverside institution say that after fall 2016, they won’t be…
Jun 24, 2016 12:30 PM CDT
The ongoing discussion on the future of legal education all too often misses the opportunities for innovation and re-invention.
In its most recent discussion of the topic, for example, the…
Jun 23, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
Technology companies such as Facebook and Microsoft are hiring law students as summer interns in their legal departments, though the positions aren’t a path to jobs straight out of law…
Jun 22, 2016 4:49 PM CDT
Updated: The South Texas College of Law has changed its name to Houston College of Law.
Law dean Donald Guter tells Texas Lawyer (sub. req.) he hopes to improve…
Jun 22, 2016 4:24 PM CDT
The New York Times is taking another look at the value of law school after critics said its story highlighting the struggles of Valparaiso law school grads had ignored…
Jun 22, 2016 7:00 AM CDT
Grand jurors in Leon County, Florida, on Friday indicted two men who were allegedly “enlisted” to kill Florida State University law professor Dan Markel.
Grand jurors indicted Sigfredo Garcia, 34,…
Jun 20, 2016 2:18 PM CDT
The problems faced by law schools and their graduates are examined in a New York Times article that focuses on Valparaiso University Law School.
Law school debt has risen from…
Jun 17, 2016 9:12 AM CDT
A Harvard law grad alleges she lost her job at Ropes & Gray because she wasn’t granted all her requested disability accommodations the first and second time she took the…
Jun 15, 2016 10:19 AM CDT
The ABA is for the first time conducting random audits of jobs data provided by law schools for the class of 2015.
The auditors are examining data from 10 randomly…
Jun 14, 2016 1:26 PM CDT
The Yale law professor who wrote a book about strict “Tiger mom” parenting decided there needed to be some rules when her two daughters informed her they would be…
Jun 14, 2016 6:15 AM CDT
The top-ranked law school by U.S. News & World Report is also the law school that has the highest yield rate—meaning it has the highest percentage of students offered admission…
Jun 9, 2016 7:04 AM CDT
Updated: A Stanford University law professor is participating in a recall effort against a California judge who sentenced a champion Stanford swimmer to six months in jail for sexual assault.
…Jun 7, 2016 7:25 AM CDT
Trinity Western University’s ongoing battle with the Law Society of British Columbia has headed to the British Columbia Court of Appeals.
On Friday, the Langley Times reported that the…
Jun 3, 2016 4:50 PM CDT
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