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The Price is Right: Bob Barker Gives $1M for New Animal Law Program at Virginia

Add the University of Virginia to a growing list of well-known law schools that are offering animal law programs thanks to the generosity of television game show host Bob Barker. Barker, perhaps best-known as the former host of the Price is Right, has just given $1 million to establish a…

Jan 13, 2009 11:35 PM CST

Law Prof Warns Inauguration Committee of Possible Potty Parity Suit

A law professor has warned the Presidential Inaugural Committee that it could face a lawsuit over a likely portable toliet shortage during the event. John Banzhaf of George Washington University law school has served notice that the committee could face a lawsuit for failing to provide more portable toilets for…

Jan 13, 2009 4:55 PM CST

How 1st-Year Volunteer Stint Made Harvard Grad a Nonprofit Powerhouse

A first-year volunteer stint, working to found an after-school tutoring program for students at a nearby public school, nearly resulted in Earl Martin Phalen’s quitting Harvard Law School. But, despite being engrossed in Building Educated Leaders for Life, which he co-founded with a classmate in 1992, Phalen decided to stay…

Jan 8, 2009 8:09 PM CST

Harvard Law Prof Cass Sunstein Appointed Regulatory Czar

Barack Obama has appointed a former colleague and friend from the University of Chicago to become the regulatory czar in his administration. Cass Sunstein, now a law professor at Harvard, “pioneered efforts to design regulation around the ways people behave,” the Wall Street Journal reports. He will become the administrator…

Jan 8, 2009 2:34 PM CST

A Slow Law School Start Didn’t Doom SG Nominee

The first semester at Harvard Law School didn’t go well for Elena Kagan, but she quickly recovered, earning an A-plus in one of her classes. Now Kagan is dean of Harvard law and Barack Obama’s nominee to become solicitor general. Her law school transcripts, part of a clerkship application with…

Jan 8, 2009 2:13 PM CST

Survey Captures 3L Ennui

Law schools considering whether to allow laptops in the classroom might want to take the year of the students into account. A new study finds that third-year law students are more likely than other students to use laptops during class to surf the Web or to send e-mails and instant…

Jan 7, 2009 5:20 PM CST

Legal Writings of SG Nominee are ‘Dense, Hedged and Moderate’

The legal writings of Harvard law dean Elena Kagan don’t provide many clues about her terrorism positions that vexed the Bush administration. The New York Times examined the writings of Kagan, who is Barack Obama’s nominee for solicitor general, and found them to be “dense, hedged and moderate.” The Times…

Jan 7, 2009 1:34 PM CST

Labor Lawyer Says He Can’t Save, Sees Retirement as ‘Scant Possibility’

A blogging employment and labor lawyer from Chicago doesn’t think he’ll ever have enough money to retire. And he’s OK with that. Tim Eavenson, who co-authors the blog Current Employment, says in a commentary for American Public Media that “retirement is a scant possibility for me.” Eavenson has no savings…

Jan 5, 2009 3:59 PM CST

Harvard Law Dean Picked for Solicitor General

Updated: Harvard law dean Elena Kagan is President-elect Obama’s choice for solicitor general. Kagan told associates the news in an e-mail today, according to the Boston Globe’s Political Intelligence blog. She wrote that the position offers the opportunity to “help advance this nation’s commitment to the rule of law at…

Jan 5, 2009 1:35 PM CST

ACLU Among Legal Groups Touched by Madoff Losses

A group that doles out grants to public interest legal organizations had its money invested with Bernard Madoff, the hedge fund manager accused of losing $50 billion in investor money in a massive Ponzi scheme. The group, the JEHT Foundation, is now dissolving, the National Law Journal reports. JEHT gave…

Jan 5, 2009 1:06 PM CST

T-Shirts, ‘Don’t Panic’ Pencils Help Whittier Grads Earn 84.3 Bar Pass Rate

It’s easy to pick out some of the Whittier Law School graduates taking the California bar exam. They’re the ones wearing t-shirts that say “Do it once. Do it right. Never do it again,” reports the Orange County Register. The t-shirts, which are being worn even by some faculty members,…

Dec 24, 2008 7:03 PM CST

Hastings Scales Back Hiring and Pay

In anticipation of continued impact from the economic downturn, California’s Hastings College of Law is scaling back. Some raises are being nixed, hiring is being scaled back and department heads are being asked to cut current operating budgets by 5 percent, the Recorder reports. The cutbacks at the San Francisco…

Dec 24, 2008 12:39 PM CST

Traffic Ticket, Friends and True Grit Helped Single Mom Become Lawyer

Latina Alston freely admits that she has made some mistakes in life, and, at not quite 30 years old, she is raising three children although she has never been married. However, she has also accomplished a feat that others with far more money and far fewer family responsibilities have failed…

Dec 23, 2008 4:59 PM CST

Fighting Fallout from Dean Ouster, Duquesne Appoints Alumni Panel

Apparently seeking to contain damage from its abrupt and controversial ouster of now-former dean Don Guter last week, Duquesne University School of Law has appointed a new alumni panel. The star-studded membership list for the 14-person panel includes includes two state senators and two retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices, as…

Dec 18, 2008 10:47 PM CST

The Price is Right: Bob Barker Gives $1M for New Animal Law Program at Virginia

Law Prof Warns Inauguration Committee of Possible Potty Parity Suit

How 1st-Year Volunteer Stint Made Harvard Grad a Nonprofit Powerhouse

Harvard Law Prof Cass Sunstein Appointed Regulatory Czar

A Slow Law School Start Didn’t Doom SG Nominee

Survey Captures 3L Ennui

Legal Writings of SG Nominee are ‘Dense, Hedged and Moderate’

Labor Lawyer Says He Can’t Save, Sees Retirement as ‘Scant Possibility’

Harvard Law Dean Picked for Solicitor General

ACLU Among Legal Groups Touched by Madoff Losses

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T-Shirts, ‘Don’t Panic’ Pencils Help Whittier Grads Earn 84.3 Bar Pass Rate

Hastings Scales Back Hiring and Pay

Traffic Ticket, Friends and True Grit Helped Single Mom Become Lawyer

Fighting Fallout from Dean Ouster, Duquesne Appoints Alumni Panel

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