Law Schools

West Virginia law school will offer tuition break for nonresidents—under one condition

After an enrollment decrease, the West Virginia University College of Law is extending its in-state annual tuition of $16,000 to some nonresidents, beginning next fall. To qualify for this “Loyalty Tuition Program,” the nonresident students must have graduated from a West Virginia college or university, according to a law school…

Sep 20, 2016 12:15 PM CDT

Did Hillary Clinton fudge a detail in her LSAT recollection?

Some critics are raising questions about Hillary Clinton’s recollection of a negative experience before she took the Law School Admission Test. Clinton wrote at the Humans of New York blog that she was one of only a few women waiting to take the test when men in the exam room…

Sep 19, 2016 10:18 AM CDT

Former Berkeley dean who was accused of harassing his assistant files race-discrimination action

Sujit Choudhry, the former dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law accused of sexually harassing his executive assistant, filed a due process and equal protection action against the UC system on Thursday. Choudhry resigned as dean after his assistant, Tyann Sorrell, filed a lawsuit against the…

Sep 16, 2016 11:30 AM CDT

Out of 12 Indiana Tech Law grads sitting for state bar, 1 reportedly passed

Out of the first class to graduate from Indiana Tech Law School, only one person who took the July 2016 state bar exam passed, Indiana Lawyer reports. The school graduated 20 students in May, and 12 sat for the state bar, according to the Indiana Lawyer. The publication examined the…

Sep 15, 2016 1:50 PM CDT

Law school cuts tuition by 35%

The University of Tulsa College of Law, a private institution, is reducing tuition and ending its regional scholarship plan for the next school year. This year, tuition at the law school is $37,960, the National Jurist reports. In 2017, it will be $24,600. TU Law announced the new tuition level…

Sep 14, 2016 3:45 PM CDT

Committee OKs proposal to tighten ABA bar pass standards; some members hope more will be done

The requirements for bar passage rates for ABA-accredited law schools need tightening, an ABA committee has found, and committee members suggested the passage percentage requirement may be too low. Standard 316 holds that accredited law schools are not in compliance if within five years fewer than 75 percent of first-time…

Sep 12, 2016 5:40 PM CDT

Hillary Clinton explains how a bad LSAT experience taught her to keep her emotions in check

Hillary Clinton says she learned a lesson about keeping her emotions in check when she took the Law School Admission Test. Clinton tells the Humans of New York blog that she was one of only a few women waiting to take the test in the Harvard classroom. “I was feeling…

Sep 12, 2016 8:15 AM CDT

What do falling bar-passage rates mean for legal education—and the future of the profession?

Erica Moeser, president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, says the cause of the current slump is “deceptively simple.” So simple, in fact, that she doesn’t know how anybody could think otherwise.

Sep 1, 2016 4:40 AM CDT

ABA responds to accreditation panel’s threat to suspend its role

Facing a Department of Education panel recommendation that the ABA’s accreditation power for new law schools be suspended for one year, the association has responded by filing a confidential comment.

Sep 1, 2016 1:10 AM CDT

California governor cites high law school costs in vetoing mandatory pro bono bill

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday vetoed a bill that would have required would-be lawyers to complete at least 50 hours of supervised pro bono work before admission to the bar. Brown cited the high cost of legal education in vetoing the bill, report the Sacramento Bee and the Recorder…

Aug 31, 2016 8:50 AM CDT

Mike Pence once authored a comic strip about law school

Donald Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has made no secret of the fact that he didn’t like law school, telling one interviewer that he wouldn’t wish it “on a dog I didn’t like.” But he managed to see humor in the unhappy situation, the Washington Post reports. Pence…

Aug 26, 2016 12:15 PM CDT

Law firms may bill for work of unpaid interns, ethics opinion says

Some labor and law-student groups are criticizing a New York ethics opinion that says law firms may bill clients for the work of unpaid student interns. The Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association issued the opinion in March, the New York Law Journal (sub. req.)…

Aug 25, 2016 9:15 AM CDT

Former Baylor president Ken Starr resigns from law faculty in ‘mutually agreed separation’

Three months after he was ousted as president of Baylor University, Ken Starr has announced he is leaving his position as a law professor at the school. Starr is leaving the law faculty in a “mutually agreed separation,” according to a statement released on Friday. WFAA, the Dallas Morning News,…

Aug 19, 2016 11:38 AM CDT

Noted law prof defends his Trump tweet, says he underestimated Twitterverse cynicism

It was this tweet by Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe that led to online condemnation: “I have notes of when Trump phoned me for legal advice in 1996. I’m now figuring out whether our talk was privileged.” Tribe later concluded in another tweet that he was at liberty to…

Aug 19, 2016 7:00 AM CDT

ThinkSmart and Michigan State team up for class on legal process automation

Michigan State University College of Law and ThinkSmart are teaming up to teach law students about automation. In a Thursday press release, ThinkSmart announced that its ThinkSmart Automation Platform (TAP) would be integrated into a course to be taught at LegalRnD—The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University…

Aug 18, 2016 3:05 PM CDT