Law Schools

Law Student Saves Woman Who Fell in Path of Approaching Train

A Seton Hall law student says it was “pure adrenaline and instinct” that caused him to jump onto the train tracks to help pull an elderly woman from the path of an oncoming train last week. The student, James Baber of Bayonne, N.J., told the Jersey Journal about the rescue…

Oct 26, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Law School Launches Program to House New Solo Lawyers

Five would-be solos and one two-person law firm hung their shingles this week on the sixth floor of their alma mater. Chicago-Kent College of Law’s “Solo and Small Firm Incubator” is a one-year program designed to provide real client experience under the guidance of clinical faculty and alumni mentors. The…

Oct 25, 2012 2:05 PM CDT

Mistrial Declared in Conservative Hiring Bias Suit Against University of Iowa Law School

A federal magistrate judge has declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict on one of two claims in a conservative hiring bias suit against the University of Iowa law school. Jurors ruled against Teresa Wagner on her First Amendment claim and deadlocked on her 14th Amendment…

Oct 25, 2012 11:49 AM CDT

Law School Dropouts and Rejects Include Famous Dancer, US Presidents and Supreme Court Justice

Updated: Those nursing hurt feelings from a law school rejection can take heart: Some successful and famous people suffered similar disappointment. And if you are in law school and considering dropping out, you are also in good company. The Faculty Lounge and PrawfsBlawg are naming some of the prominent people…

Oct 25, 2012 11:15 AM CDT

Former Law School Employee Says in Sworn Statement She Was Pressured to Inflate Graduates’ Job Stats

A former assistant career services director at Thomas Jefferson School of Law has admitted to padding the school’s 2006 graduate employment data to include unemployed graduates who had been employed at any time since graduation. Karen Grant, who held the job for one year in 2006 and 2007, says she…

Oct 24, 2012 7:59 PM CDT

Why Scalia Is Traveling to Wyoming: It’s Not Just the Antelope Hunting

Caitlin Wallace made a pledge when she was running for president of the Federalist Society at the University of Wyoming. Wallace vowed she would try to get big-name speakers to appear on campus. After getting the position, she wrote to Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, and received a positive…

Oct 23, 2012 10:59 AM CDT

Few Women Lead Law Journals at Top Schools

Only 31 percent of ABA-accredited law schools have female students as law review editors-in-chief, according to a recent data. The number drops to 29 percent at U.S. News & World Report top 50 law schools. The data was gathered by New York Law School, the National Law Journal reports, and…

Oct 22, 2012 8:23 PM CDT

Liberty Law Dean Says Gay Mom’s Racketeering Suit Against School Is Frivolous

Updated: A lesbian woman who won a court battle for custody of her daughter has filed a civil racketeering suit that accuses Liberty University School of Law of conspiring in the girl’s disappearance. The federal suit filed by Janet Jenkins in Burlington, Vt., alleges a conspiracy to kidnap the girl…

Oct 22, 2012 1:24 PM CDT

NYU Law School Will Offer New Study and Internship Options for 3Ls

Third-year students at New York University School of Law will have new options under an initiative announced Wednesday aimed at making students into better lawyers. Students will have the option of studying abroad, pursuing specialized study in a “professional pathways” program, or spending a semester in Washington, D.C., where they…

Oct 19, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Hackers Post Lawyers’ CLE Info from Rutgers; Group Says It Accessed Data to Protest Education Costs

More than 1,500 lawyers who took continuing legal education courses from Rutgers’ law schools were notified on Tuesday that some of their personal data was posted by hackers. Names, addresses, encrypted passwords, telephone numbers and email addresses were accessed, the New Jersey Law Journal reports. The information posted online by…

Oct 12, 2012 11:31 AM CDT

Harvard Law School to Interview Applicants by Videoconference in Expanded Program

Harvard Law School is offering more interviews to applicants and adding a technological twist: The interviews can now be conducted by videoconference. The expanded program begins with the current admissions cycle for next year’s entering class, according to a press release. For the last six years, the law school offered…

Oct 12, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Ex-Administrator Sentenced in Theft of More than $500K from Vanderbilt Law School

A former administrative manager at Vanderbilt University Law School was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty in the theft of more than $535,000 from his one-time employer. Jason Hunt, 34, was accused of using a university credit card for personal purchases and writing fraudulent checks,…

Oct 11, 2012 12:53 PM CDT

Law School Email Draws Fire Amid Hotly Contested Retention Election for 3 Top Florida Judges

An unusual political battle over an upcoming retention election for three Florida Supreme Court justices has now embroiled one of the state’s law schools. As detailed recently by the Tampa Bay Times, the Republican Party of Florida, in an unprecedented move, announced last month that it would oppose the retention…

Oct 9, 2012 3:42 PM CDT

Columbia Law School Ranked Best for Career Prospects

The best law school for career prospects is Columbia and the best for classroom experience is Stanford, according to new rankings by the Princeton Review. The results were based on a survey of 18,000 law students and, in some instances, school-reported data, according to a Princeton Review press release. The…

Oct 9, 2012 1:26 PM CDT

Is Law School Tuition ‘Too Damn High’? Dean and Tax Prof Differ on Solutions to Legal Ed Problems

A tax law professor and a law school dean are proposing two remedies for what ails law schools. University of California at Hastings law dean Frank Wu sees the problem as large class sizes. Law schools should have cut class sizes long ago, he writes in the Huffington Post. “Or…

Oct 5, 2012 12:14 PM CDT