To help its graduates compete in a tough job market, Santa Clara University School of Law is offering courses on law practice management skills created with input from a new…
The atmosphere may be tense inside a Columbus, Ohio, auditorium filled with 1,300 law graduates taking the bar exam, but the outside parking lot looks a lot more like a…
The murder of a California attorney’s 17-year-old daughter after she was allegedly kidnapped near Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles has stunned the local legal community.
The ABA should either get out of the federal law school accreditation process altogether or seek a waiver from a Department of Education rule requiring the association to steer clear…
The defense team in a high-profile illegal music downloading case against physics graduate student Joel Tenenbaum had hoped to rely on a fair-use doctrine defense. But after that plan was…
The bar group representing solicitors in England and Wales is launching a new campaign to warn would-be lawyers that they could end up jobless and in debt.
Law grads taking the bar exam this week should stop worrying—but it wouldn’t hurt to appeal to a higher power, according to a blogger who has written five tips for…
University of Iowa law professor Lea VanderVelde didn’t want to use a textbook in last spring’s employment law class because the material can quickly become dated. Her solution: Let the…
After a change in dean, Harvard Law School is reportedly making it difficult for a student to continue working on a high-profile file-sharing case that she says she has “lived…
University of California law professors are facing pay cuts of 4 percent to 10 percent under a new furlough plan that affects faculty and staff at all UC schools beginning…
A comedian who interrupted the class of former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, now a visiting law professor at Chapman University law school, didn’t…
A law professor has concluded that data reported to U.S. News & World Report for its law school rankings apparently tracks the information provided to the…
A Singapore law professor under fire for her statements about homosexuality has decided not to teach a human rights class at New York University law school.
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