Apr 9, 2013

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The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools Is Much, Much Worse Than You Think
The Atlantic
The barren job market for law school grads has become a familiar reality by now. But here's something that tends to get lost in the story: The problem isn't just about no-name law schools churning out JD's nobody wants to hire. Even graduates at some ...
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The Atlantic
The Law Schools With the Highest Unemployment Rates
Above the Law
Over the past few weeks, we've brought you a few sets of rankings based on the class of 2011 employment statistics that were used in compiling the 2014 U.S. News law school rankings. These data points — in particular the one concerning full-time, ...
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Above the Law
Roger Ebert and the Law: Coming to a Law School Near You
Above the Law
Writing law school exams is a skill that is different from other forms of writing, and understanding those differences and practicing (writing and rewriting) can be quite helpful. Timing is important, however, because a student needs to be through a ...
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Above the Law
Dan Walters Daily: UC Irvine law school and the lawyer surplus
Sacramento Bee (blog)
April 9, 2013. Dan Walters Daily: UC Irvine law school and the lawyer surplus. UC Irvine went ahead with building a law school despite warnings that it was unnecessary -- and now, Dan says, a glut of lawyers proves the school's folly.
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The Lance stops printing, Rick Ross & law school
Macleans.ca
1. For the second time this semester, the uneasy relationship between a student newspaper and its student union overlords is front-page news. The Windsor Star, the local daily newspaper in Windsor, Ont., reports that The Lance student paper at the ...
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Macleans.ca
Outrage as Jewish law school honors Jimmy Carter
WND.com
A group of Cardoza graduates has sent an email to other alumni protesting the award and urging the school to cancel the presentation event. The Coalition of Concerned Cardozo Alumni has also established a website outlining the case against Carter as a ...
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WND.com
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Former Cooley Law School Student
JDJournal.com
A former law student from Thomas M. Cooley Law School has won a court case in the Michigan Court of Appeals. The court ruled in favor of the former student with a unanimous vote. The former student, identified as Doe 1, used his blog to complain about ...
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UNC School of Law sees a drop in the number of applicants
The Daily Tar Heel
Law school administrators have said the decrease could be attributed to the daunting task of finding work after graduation. This has become increasingly difficult, as year after year fewer jobs are available for the most recent graduates, said Jack ...
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Law of supply and demand takes its toll
Santa Maria Times
Six years ago, yours truly wrote a column about a proposed law school at the University of California's Irvine campus, suggesting that it was more about academic ego and Orange County boosterism than a shortage of lawyers. The column pointed out that ...
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Assignment perceived as threat at law school
The Flat Hat
The rumor and Jackson's email were posted on a blog called "Above the Law" and later on The Huffington Post. Both sites cast the reaction to the exercise as overblown. The Huffington Post's headline read "William and Mary Law School Went On High Alert ...
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UB prepares to open new Law Center
Baltimore Sun
Like American jurisprudence, the University of Baltimore's new $114 million law school is complicated and thoughtful. Staircases bridge across and spiral through the 12-story building's vibrant atrium, connecting a labyrinth of classrooms and study ...
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New Entrepreneur's Law Clinic and Director Announced at Santa Clara ...
Fort Mills Times
A new law clinic focused on the needs of early-stage Silicon Valley companies will begin serving clients this summer at Santa Clara University School of Law. A veteran attorney specializing in start-up companies, Laura Lee Norris, has been named ...
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Justice Thomas to speak in Pittsburgh
San Francisco Chronicle
Law school Dean Ken Gormley says the program will begin Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., and that Thomas will respond to questions that students and faculty have submitted in advance. Duquesne is a Catholic school that was founded in 1878 to serve the children of ...
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Cooley Law loses bid to unmask online critic on appeal
The National Law Journal
Cooley initially sued Rockstar05 — known in court documents as John Doe 1 — in July 2011 after he started a blog called the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Scam. The site included a litany of complaints against the school involving its graduate ...
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The National Law Journal
Houston's AZA Adds Big Law Attorneys from Washington, D.C., Dallas, Houston
Sacramento Bee
Formerly with the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Ms. Zepeda is a graduate of both Harvard Law School and Harvard College. During law school, she served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Latino Law Review, and as a teaching fellow and ...
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Law school is a sham: Salon
Sacramento Business Journal (blog)
Salon's Stephen Harper, a lawyer himself, is down on law school. In his latest article, he takes the whole system to task from what he calls a craven student-loan profit system to students graduating into unemployment and massive debt. He notes that 85 ...
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Falling Short of the Dream: Law Schools with the Highest Rates of Unemployed ...
The National Law Journal
Unemployment figures alone don't offer a complete picture of which law school's alumni are struggling the most on the job market because they exclude graduates in temporary or part-time work, or graduates in nonprofessional jobs such as a café barista.
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Protest Planned at N.J. Budget Committee Hearing on Education Funding
newjerseynewsroom.com
As the Assembly Budget Committee convenes a budget hearing on education funding in Governor Christie's FY 14 budget at Rutgers University Law School in Newark on April 9, students and community leaders will stage a rally and speak-out on the budget's ...
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University of Baltimore offers glimpse into new law building
Baltimore Business Journal
With its walls of windows, the new law school stands out from its neighboring brick and concrete school buildings. The inside of the school maintains its modern look with concrete floors, bamboo walls and an open spiral staircase. Large splashes of ...
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Tuition reduced at University of Arizona law school
Phoenix Business Journal (blog)
ABC 15 reports the law school is cutting tuition by 11 percent for in-state students and 8 percent for out-of-state students. The school faces a 13.5 percent drop in first-year students and a decrease of more than one-third in the number of applicants ...
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Williams honored with $2 million donation
The Tand D.com
Williams, who serves on the USC Board of Trustees, said when it was announced that a $2 million gift to the law school would be made in honor of his wife, retired U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Karen Williams, it was a pleasant surprise. "I ...
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Student solicitors step into the breach
Observer
Thanks to a supportive professor using her connections, Smitham and some of his classmates at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London had the chance to do pro bono work with a team at Harvard Law School on a major corporate ...
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Observer
From 2013 World Winter Games to Global Development Summit, Alford plays ...
Harvard Law School News
Harvard Law School Professor William P. Alford, chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. April 08, 2013. As an enthusiastic supporter of the Special Olympics who has worked for more than two decades with Special Olympics International, ...
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Harvard Law School News
JJ Watt thanks law students for support
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Almost three years ago, Watt turned to the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School for help setting up a nonprofit to fund after-school sports programs. "It's a different day in America," says Watt, who was the first ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Looming Threat for South Korean Law Grads? Unemployment.
The American Lawyer
But, as with similar statistics in the United States, these have been met with widespread skepticism, and several students, professors, and law school administrators say those numbers don't fit with the reality they see before them. "There's a lot of ...
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The American Lawyer
Life is Law in the Gerlach family
Portsmouth Daily Times
After all, she was able to attend law school at the same time and in the same school, as her mother. Cynthia K. Gerlach graduated from the University of Cincinnati's College of Nursing and Health, and had worked as an operating room scrub nurse and as ...
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Symbiosis announces one-year LLM course
Indian Express
The Symbiosis International University (SIU) has announced a one-year LLM programme to be introduced through its constituent Symbiosis Law School, Pune, from the academic year 2013-2014. Acting SIU vice-chancellor Dr Vidya Yeravdekar told ...
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Rebel Wilson Went To Law School
HollyscoopTV
... http://www.facebook.com/hollyscoop. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/hollyscoop. Just in case the MTV Movie Awards go horribly wrong and host Rebel Wilson doesn't have a job in Hollywood anymore, she can always fall back on her law degree.
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Suffolk University Law School Presents Richard Susskind as it Inaugurates ...
PR Web (press release)
Richard Susskind, "legal futurist" and best-selling author of The End of Lawyers?, will speak at the inaugural program of Suffolk University Law School's Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation, which studies how technology is ...
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UNH Law's Rudman Center to launch with conference on federal budget issues
Concord Monitor
The new center's first conference, "The Federal Budget and the Law: Finding a Way Forward," is scheduled April 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Its events are open to the public but space will be limited, said Danielle Barrick, a spokeswoman for the law school.
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Four Burning Questions for Dean Spade, professor, lawyer, civil rights activist
McGill Reporter
Dean Spade, lawyer, civil rights activist, and Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, will be one of three panelists at the event Radical Formations: Sex, Race, Trans on Friday, April 12. / Photo courtesy of Dean Spade. By McGill ...
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McGill Reporter
Yeshiva U., Cardozo back students' right to honor Carter
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A number of former alumni are objecting to the decision by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, run by students in the Manhattan-based law school's Program for Conflict Resolution, to award its International Advocate for Peace Award this year to ...
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Bubble or no, virtual bitcoins show real worth
Economic Times
NEW YORK: When he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a novel virtual currency that uses sophisticated cryptography to validate and secure transactions that exist only online.
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Economic Times
Hot alternative legal careers for 2013
National Jurist
Bonsu, who is an alumnus of the Calhoun school, had sat on their board as a volunteer, mentoring students. When the Director of Development position opened up, she landed it. It helped that she had also worked after law school as a Deputy Director of ...
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National Jurist
Fundraising key to progress, says UGA dean candidate
Online Athens
"The key to SPIA's success is fundraising, plain and simple," said Stefanie Lindquist, a professor and associate dean for external affairs at the University of Texas School of Law. The law school relies heavily on gifts from alumni in its fundraising ...
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Jewish university criticized for presenting former President Carter with an award
Washington Free Beacon
Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is scheduled to present Carter with the award on Wednesday, leading former alumni and pro-Israel advocates to galvanize in opposition to what they say is the former president's anti-Israel views.
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Why You Should Be a Lawyer
Huffington Post
I know law school applications are down, the legal job market is tight, law school tuitions are exorbitant, and some law schools are even fudging their employment numbers. I admit that these are not encouraging signs. But let me take a moment to tell ...
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When It Comes to Minority Partners at Law Firms, Read the Fine Print
Atlanta Black Star
On the face of it, Asian-American associates have higher starting salaries than whites and other people of color entering law firms. On average, an Asian-American law school graduate can expect to make about $15,000 more a year than his white ...
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Parents back bill to let Florida schools stock 'EpiPens'
MiamiHerald.com
Thousands of kids with undiagnosed allergies to food and insect bites aren't able to get a critical epinephrine injection if they have an allergic reaction at school. That's because state law forbids school nurses from giving the injections to students ...
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MiamiHerald.com

Blogs2 new results for Law School
 
Law school no. 1 for post-graduate employment - The Chicago Maroon
By Celia Bever
The University of Chicago Law School produced the highest percentage of 2012 graduates with full-time, long-term law jobs that require passing the Bar exam, according to a study by the National Law Journal. An analysis by Law School ...
The Chicago Maroon
AG sues for-profit schools over misleading alumni stats | The Daily ...
By editors
"The law schools are being sued by the alumni/graduates from recent years because the laws schools made their employment data appear that there would be a very good chance at being employed after graduating from law school," he said.
The Daily Free Press

Web4 new results for Law School
 
Outrage as Yeshiva University's Law School Honors Jimmy Carter
On Wednesday, the Journal of Conflict Resolution at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law will bestow an award on former president Jimmy Carter.
www.breitbart.com/.../Outrage-Yeshiva-University-Law-Schoo...
The Careerist: Newsbriefs—The McDonald's of Law School
Some quick takes from the world of law: French–fried law school; poor Sandy; quick lateral move; and more.
www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleALD.jsp?id...of...
Professor Trevor W. Morrison '98 Named Dean of NYU School of Law
Trevor W. Morrison '98, a leading expert on constitutional law, federal courts, and national security law, will leave the Columbia Law School faculty on June 1 to ...
www.law.columbia.edu/.../trevor-morrison-named-dean-nyu
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: Ideological diversity in law ...
the non-issue that just won't die. For my earlier take, see this exchange with Yale's Peter Schuck. (I should disclose that I was invited to...
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/.../ideological-diversity-in-law-sc...


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