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Fewer lawyers—and jobs—for the Class of ‘15

One law school experiments with accepting the GRE for admissions

It's a long-standing tradition: Law school applicants take the standardized Law School Admission Test. Applicants' scores on the test, which is given four times a year, can determine the range…

University of Houston Law Center sues over law school’s ‘strikingly similar’ new name

The University of Houston Law Center claims in a lawsuit that the South Texas College of law infringed its trademark by changing its name to the Houston College of Law…

Vigilant rental car company may have thwarted earlier attempt on law prof’s life

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…

ABA threatened with 1-year suspension of law school accreditation powers

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…

For-profit law school with $39K total tuition bill set to close

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…

Why law schools need to teach more than the law to thrive (or survive)

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…

Tech companies hire law students for internships

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…

Unranked law school changes its name; dean of similarly named school sees possibility of confusion

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…

Is law school a ‘fruitful choice’? Pay boost for JDs suggests a benefit, study says

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…

Two men are indicted in law prof’s slaying

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,…

These two Valparaiso law grads exemplify challenges of difficult legal job market

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…

Harvard law grad’s suit alleges lack of bar exam accommodations devastated her BigLaw career

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…

Law school job statistics get extra scrutiny in random ABA audits

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…

Are your adult kids living at home? ‘Tiger mom’ law prof offers this contract

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…

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