Jul 16, 2013

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Law School Enrollment Plummets, but Not at Harvard
Businessweek
Let's be blunt about the bursting of the legal education bubble: The crisis in the law school economy, long predicted, is devastating third-tier and some second-tier institutions, not the super-elite. The Wall Street Journal has an illuminating survey ...
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Cuts to Law School Faculties: A Chat with Two Experts
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Tamanaha is a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and the author of the 2012 book "Failing Law Schools." Mr. Campos, is a constitutional scholar at the University of Colorado Law School. Start, Mr. Tamanaha said, with a ...
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Amid Falling Enrollment, Law Schools Are Cutting Faculty
Wall Street Journal
Law schools across the country are shedding faculty as enrollments plunge, sending a grim message to an elite group long sheltered from the ups-and-downs of the broader economy. Ashby Jones joins the News Hub with details. Law schools across the ...
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Ex-UL law school worker charged in scholarship case
The Courier-Journal
The former admissions director for University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law — who in 2012 promised incoming students about $2.4 million more in scholarships than the school had allotted — has been indicted in the case, on a charge of ...
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Law schools cope with declining enrollment by quietly cutting faculty
ABA Journal
Faced with smaller enrollments, many law schools are quietly cutting faculty through buyouts, early retirement offers and canceled contracts with lower-level instructors. The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) has an article on the trend, most prevalent ...
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Smith selected for Teachers' Law School in Austin
Nueces County Record Star
Cissy Smith of Corpus Christi, a 12-year teacher at Baker Middle School, has been selected to attend the Fifth Annual Teachers' Law School in Austin. Smith is one of 30 teachers whose applications were accepted to attend the three-day legal education ...
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Indiana University to drop William Conour's name from law school atrium
Indianapolis Star
Indiana University will remove William Conour's name from the atrium of its Indianapolis law school and turn over a $450,000 donation from the former attorney to a restitution fund for his victims, officials said Monday after Conour pleaded guilty to a ...
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The John Marshall Law School in Chicago A Leader in Online Legal Education
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
John Marshall continues its distance education mission by being the first Illinois law school to offer a MOOC, which will allow users around the globe to access quality education. The MOOC, titled "Serving in the Armed Forces and Civilian Law," will be ...
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Córdova graduates from UNM law school and passes state bar exam
taosnews
Darren Lee Córdova, 26, a native of Taos and 2005 graduate of Taos High School, graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico with dual bachelor's degrees in marketing and finance in 2009. In 2010, Córdova obtained his master's in ...
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5 Top Law Schools Just As Great As Harvard, Yale, and Stanford
PolicyMic
While law school applications have decreased in recent years, pursuing a legal degree is still one of the most popular post-graduate pursuits in America – and while everyone has heard of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia when it comes to law school, those ...
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What's next for George Zimmerman? Law school, perhaps, Reuters says
The Birmingham News - al.com
Close friends of George Zimmerman say the Florida resident is interested in attending law school, according to Reuters. Leanne Benjamin, wife of defense witness John Donnelly, told Reuters' Chris Francescani, that Zimmerman had mentioned an interest in ...
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Zimmerman keen to go to law school to help those wrongly accused
South China Morning Post
After his acquittal on murder charges, George Zimmerman may go to law school so he can help people wrongly accused of crimes like himself, friends said. After he was found not guilty of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin, one of the first calls ...
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Federal Law Provides a Backstop
New York Times
William Yeomans, a professor at American University Law School, is a former lawyer with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. He was the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights before becoming chief counsel in Senator Edward M.
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Law schools 'about to get walloped'
St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
Declining enrollment is prompting many U.S. law schools to cut faculty, and Washington University law professor Brian Tamanaha said the situation may only be getting worse. Tamanaha told the Wall Street Journal that U.S. enrollments in 2010, the class ...
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Thompson & Knight Establishes Legal Internship Pipeline Program for Dallas ...
Wall Street Journal
Robles, a senior at the Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet, plans to attend Southern Methodist University and eventually attend law school. After completing her senior year at James Madison High School, Geter plans to attend Sam Houston State University and ...
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Vice Provost for Faculty: Anita Allen
UPENN Almanac
Provost Vincent Price announced the appointment of Anita L. Allen, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law in the Penn Law School and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, as Vice Provost for Faculty, effective July 1, 2013. "Anita ...
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$2.5 Million from Robert & Jane Toll for Penn Law's Public Interest Programs
UPENN Almanac
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has received a $2.5 million gift from Robert Toll, L'66, and Jane Toll, GSE'66, which will enable the School to expand its existing public interest programs by supporting an array of student pro bono ...
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Lillian Baker, 92, Burlco's first female lawyer admitted to bar
Philly.com
The former Lillian Dubrow graduated from Burlington City High School in 1937, and the College of South Jersey two years later. In 1943, long before women routinely studied law, she earned a law degree from South Jersey Law School - now Rutgers Law ...
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Was Justice Served in Murder Acquittal of George Zimmerman?
PBS
Jonathan Turley is professor of law at George Washington University Law School. And Carol Swain is a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt Law School. RELATED INFORMATION. Americans Rally in Protest of Zimmerman Verdict. We thank ...
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Indiana Scrubbing Disgraced Alumnus' Name from Campus
The National Law Journal
The atrium of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law was named for personal injury attorney William Conour, who donated $450,000 to the school in 2000. But Conour on July 15 pleaded guilty to wire fraud and now faces up to 20 years in ...
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Law professor Tai wins Supreme Court fellowship
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephanie Tai, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has been selected as the 2013-14 Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the Federal Judicial Center. Tai will spend her fellowship year in the center's Research Division ...
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New Law Signed to Help Columbus City Schools
NBC4i.com
A new state law will put into place recommendations which were developed by Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman's Columbus Education Commission. Coleman said that by signing House Bill 167, it is the first step in fixing the troubled Columbus City ...
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I risked my life to pay off $108000 in student loans
KDBC
McGregor graduated in 2008 from the University of St. Thomas law school in Minnesota with $108,000 in student loans. After several months of job hunting, and with the threat of a deeper recession looming, McGregor decided to enlist in the Army. "I paid ...
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Case against NUJS prof who slapped student closed with 'stern warning'
Legally India
NUJS vice chancellor (VC) Prof Ishwara Bhatt told Legally India yesterday that the law school's executive council (EC) resolved to let Dasgupta continue working at the law school in her current position after a "stern warning" from the EC, since she ...
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IU to remove lawyer's name from Indianapolis law school atrium after guilty ...
The Herald-Times (subscription)
Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will ask the university trustees to remove the name of attorney William Conour from the named atrium at its Indianapolis law school after Conour pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding clients of more ...
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Florida law that justified Zimmerman could have done the same for his victim
Minnesota Public Radio
"A 17-year-old boy is dead," said Elizabeth Megale, associate professor at Savannah Law School. "There shouldn't be a legal justification for it, but Florida does in fact have one. And the jury did what it was required to do under the law. I do think ...
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State Law Will Save Manchester Money On Roof Replacements
Hartford Courant
MANCHESTER — The town will save up to $600,000 on school construction projects this year thanks to recently enacted state law that allows a lower pitch for replaced roofs. General Manager Scott Shanley said he waited until Friday, just after Gov ...
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Alabama has 'Stand Your Ground' law similar to Florida's
WBRC
Alabama's Stand Your Ground law was enacted back in 2006. It basically gives citizens the right to stand his or her ground and use deadly force if they feel their life is in jeopardy. The dean of the Cumberland Law School, John Carroll, says before ...
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Taylor County prosecutor: A life in the law
Exponent-telegram
He then moved out west and attended the California Western School of Law in San Diego. But Taylor County has always been Bord's home. He moved back after graduating from law school and began his career as a magistrate clerk. kAmyFDE D:I >@?
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Group wants more practical training for law students
Washington Business Journal
The Clinical Legal Education Association, a group of more than 1,000 law professors, are pushing the American Bar Association's Standards Review Committee — which accredits the nation's law schools — to set stricter requirements for law students to ...
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Sheldon Gallner Attorney Sheldon Gallner was 'devoted' to clients
Omaha World-Herald
Gallner, a Bluffs native, graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School. He also graduated with high honors from American University in Washington, D.C., and, in 1974, from the University of Iowa School of Law. Before law school, Gallner was a sports ...
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Hellertown Woman Earns Law Degree
Patch.com
Samantha Kevitch of Hellertown received a Doctor of Law degree from the School of Law of Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., at its 168th commencement ceremony on May 13, 2013, the school recently announced in a news release. Comment Recommend ...
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Trial Begins On Pa.'s Photo ID Law
CBS Local
... add on top of that in terms of having identification without pushing so far, making it so difficult to get, that you're really adding another requirement that doesn't appear anywhere in this constitution," noted Ken Gormley, Dean of the Duquesne ...
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Department of Education: Pohatcong School Board followed contract law for ...
Warren Reporter
Pohatcong resident Trish Becker asked the board, during the meeting on June 27, why the public was not made aware of the April 19 public bid announcement and questioned whether or not it followed public school contract law. "Why wasn't the public there?
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Melbourne lecturer recognised at NAIDOC Awards
Lawyers Weekly
A Wiradjuri man from Trangie in New South Wales, McMillan joined the Law School of the University of Melbourne in 2011 as a specialist on indigenous law, property law and public law. He is a board member of the Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council and ...
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New law allows MO schools to teach gun safety to first-graders ...
By Trisha Bee
(CNN) -- Along with math, science and social studies, gun safety could soon be part of the first-grade curriculum in some Missouri public schools. A new measure that advocates for such classes for first-graders was signed into law last week.
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Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz Says George Zimmerman ...
By Scared Monkeys
In an interview with Mike Huckabee, law school professor Alan Dershowitz said that the George Zimmerman special prosecutor Angela Corey should be disbarred were her actions. Dershowitz then went on to say that her conduct bordered on ...
Scared Monkeys
Exclusive: Zimmerman wants to go to law school to help other ...
By Carrie B.
After his acquittal on murder charges for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman may go to law school. GOOD LUCK GETTING A GOOD STUDY GROUP!
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Former Admissions Director of Brandeis School of Law Indicted - JD ...
By Scott
The former admissions director for the Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, has been indicted in a case brought by the university, on a charge.
JD Journal
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: NYU's Misleading Presentation ...
By Brian Leiter
Tsk, tsk--technically accurate, but also misleading, since it omits the fact that NYU also had the third highest number of candidates on the market (and...
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Skepchick | I'm a Lawyer, but I'm Going Back to School Anyway ...
By Mindy
Not everyone understands this. Some people – mostly old law school buddies – really don't get it. That's understandable. Going back for a physics degree must seem like a really random decision to make for people who do not live in my head.
Skepchick
Does it matter if only the well-off can afford to go to law school? – Slaw
By CBA Futures
One participant on the cbafutures.org website noted that with their own law school tuition at $13000 a year, the pool of applicants with the means to attend shrinks tremendously. Indeed, some.
Slaw
New Missouri law allows gun-safety program for first-graders ...
By Clare Kim
The new law does not require schools to teach the "Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program," but allows schools to decide whether or not they would like to implement the program. If the school opts to teach the gun-safety course, they can apply for ...
MSNBC
ContractsProf Blog - Law Professor Blogs Network - Typepad
By Kprofs2013
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, Brooklyn Law School ... Gary Low, Singapore Management University - School of Law, Maastricht European Private Law Institute, ... New York University (NYU) - School of Law.
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Samuel R. Gross - The University of Michigan Law School
Samuel R. Gross, the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law, graduated from Columbia College in 1968 and earned a JD from the University of California at ...
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