Law Schools

Lerach Wants to Teach Law School Ethics Class During Home Confinement

Updated: Former Milberg Weiss lawyer Willliam Lerach will be sentenced today for paying kickbacks to investors to serve as lead plaintiffs in securities class actions. His lawyer is seeking a one-year sentence, with half to be served at home while he teaches law school classes—including an ethics class—by teleconference. Lerach…

Feb 11, 2008 1:06 PM CST

Law Prof Backtracks on Bar Pass Post

Corrected: This week, Paul Caron’s blog got more attention than he bargained for. Caron – the Associate Dean of Faculty and a law professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law – ignited a firestorm of controversy this week when he posted on his popular TaxProf Blog that seven…

Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM CST

Critic: Law Reviews Would Publish My Grocery List

Some critics are assailing the increasing number of reviews, saying many are of poor quality and little academic value. Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern law school, is one of the critics, the National Jurist reports. “The writing in law reviews is atrocious,” he told the publication. “Nowadays,…

Feb 7, 2008 5:18 PM CST

5-Semester Option Saves Money, May Offer Jump on Jobs

A new option of graduating from the University of Dayton School of Law after five semesters instead of the traditional six has definite benefits. Although it requires students to work harder in order to finish six semesters of work in five (apparently supplemented by summer courses), the alternative offers tuition…

Feb 6, 2008 11:25 PM CST

$5K DePaul Student Award Honors Slain IP Lawyer

A $5,000 award has been established in memory of a Chicago intellectual property lawyer who was murdered in a shooting rampage at his law firm in late 2006. The scholarship will be awarded to a third-year student at DePaul University College of Law who is “expected to make the greatest…

Feb 5, 2008 12:39 AM CST

Lawyer-Actor Writes Gitmo Script

An actor-turned-lawyer has written a 30-minute screenplay that imagines the deliberations of three military judges deciding whether to hold a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant. Sig Libowitz played a Jewish man with mob ties on The Sopranos and a public defender on Law & Order before he attended the…

Feb 4, 2008 5:00 PM CST

Five Profs Resign at American Justice Law School, Call for Dean’s Ouster

Five professors at the American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Ky.—about one-fourth of the faculty—resigned effective Friday, saying they won’t come back until the dean of the for-profit school submits his resignation. Dean Paul Hendrick has been named in a $120 million lawsuit by more than 30 students. The…

Feb 4, 2008 11:51 AM CST

Touro Law For Sale?

Touro Law School could become the second law school in the New York state university system if Stony Brook University becomes a bidder. Touro’s dean, Lawrence Raful, confirmed talks of selling the school are ongoing, but wouldn’t provide Newsday with many details. “Are there discussions? Yes. But really, it’s not…

Feb 1, 2008 9:57 PM CST

Harvard Law Tops for Donations

Harvard Law School is leading the nation’s top law schools in an era of record-breaking donations, raking in nearly $215 million in the last five years. It is followed by New York University and Yale law schools, which took in $169.7 million and $111.7 million respectively in the same half…

Jan 29, 2008 7:14 PM CST

Pre-Law Students Rank Penn Most Overrated on Chat Board

Pre-law students participating in a pre-law chat board have ranked the University of Pennsylvania the most overrated law school. About 20 percent of the 259 students participating in the poll chose Penn, followed by Cornell, which got about 14 percent of the vote, and Georgetown, with a little less than…

Jan 28, 2008 6:59 PM CST

Law Prof Sees ‘Explosion of Interest’ in Animal Issues

Ninety ABA-approved law schools teach courses in animal law, up from only a handful that offered such classes a decade ago. A Michigan State law professor, David Favre, tells USA Today the development is part of “an explosion of interest” in animal welfare issues. Just as law students in the…

Jan 28, 2008 3:17 PM CST

NYU Law Pays $4.2M for New Prof’s Condo

New York University law school apparently helped lure professor Catherine Sharkey from Columbia University with the purchase of a multimillion-dollar, 4,000-square-foot condo for her in a complex overlooking Central Park. A foundation associated with NYU paid $4.2 million for an 80 percent interest in the condo at 455 Central Park…

Jan 23, 2008 3:07 PM CST

ABAJournal.com Among Robert Ambrogi’s Faves

Writing for Law Technology News, Robert Ambrogi has named ABAJournal.com as one of the five most notable legal websites for 2007. Ambrogi notes that the redesigned website now offers content from the ABA Journal free to the public, with online magazine articles through 2004 and more to come in the…

Jan 23, 2008 1:09 PM CST

Abe Lincoln’s Self-Study Route to Law Practice a Vanishing Option

It still is possible, in a handful of states, for an individual to pass the bar and work as an attorney without ever actually having attended law school. But, as a practical matter, such self-study of the law is a dying career option available only to a few individuals favored…

Jan 22, 2008 8:59 PM CST

Nerdy 1L Compared to Cool B-School Student in YouTube Videos

Reports that law jobs are losing their social prestige are reinforced by a series of new videos on YouTube that compare a nerdy-looking “law school guy” with a cool, fun-loving “B-school guy.” Law school guy just can’t seem to win in the videos, a parody of the ads for Apple…

Jan 22, 2008 1:44 PM CST