Mindfulness training helped 1Ls reduce stress and improve well-being, study finds

First-year law students at the University of Missouri who volunteered for mindfulness training saw improvements in stress, well-being and mindful awareness, according to a study chronicled in a law review article. There was no statistically significant difference in grades between the mindfulness volunteers and a control group, however, according to…

Jun 19, 2019 1:47 PM CDT

After tenure removals, Vermont Law School is now on sanction list of professors’ organization

Jun 19, 2019 10:46 AM CDT

Judge’s cases under review after relatives cite severe alcoholism in guardianship petition

Ohio’s public defender is planning a review of as many as 2,700 cases overseen by a retired judge after the judge’s daughter and mother filed a petition for guardianship alleging advanced alcoholism that was a problem when he was still on the bench.

Jun 17, 2019 11:31 AM CDT

Florida Coastal and Atlanta’s John Marshall get more news from ABA Legal Ed Section

In a notice posted Wednesday, the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar stated that Florida Coastal School of Law has demonstrated compliance with various accreditation standards and requested more information from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, which was placed on probation in December 2018.

Jun 13, 2019 1:19 PM CDT

What one thing do you wish you were told about legal practice?

Mark Herrmann takes on a flinty, severe persona to lay down the law on legal practice in the real world. But as law grads draft their first pleadings, the former Jones Day partner advises a light touch. “Law schools, they don’t tell you how ferociously busy judges are,” Herrmann tells…

Jun 12, 2019 3:34 PM CDT

ABA approval withdrawn for Thomas Jefferson School of Law

ABA approval for Thomas Jefferson School of Law, which was placed on probation in November 2017, has been withdrawn by the council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, according to a memo posted online Monday.

Jun 11, 2019 6:00 AM CDT

Another University of Denver law professor sues school alleging gender and wage discrimination

A tenured associate professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law has filed an Equal Pay Act complaint, claiming that she earns significantly less than others in her academic category.

Jun 10, 2019 6:30 AM CDT

After donor blasts abortion law and criticizes use of funds, University of Alabama returns most of $26M donation

Updated: On Friday, attorney and philanthropist Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. was wired $21.5 million of a $26.5 million pledge he made to the law school at the University of Alabama, after its board of trustees voted in favor of giving him a refund, following his call for a boycott of the state after it passed a new law that effectively outlaws abortions.

Jun 7, 2019 3:39 PM CDT

ABA group offers $5K scholarships to support LGBT public interest work

Law students or recent law school graduates who plan to work in the LGBTQ public interest field still have a few days to apply for a new scholarship being offered by the ABA's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

Jun 6, 2019 10:12 AM CDT

Going to law school as a teen? Young student has this advice

A George Washington University law student who began his legal studies when he was 18 has some advice for other teens entering law school. “The No. 1 thing is just to be yourself and forge your own path,” said Aaron Parnas, now 20, who spoke with Law.com in an interview.…

Jun 6, 2019 7:30 AM CDT

Are law schools doing enough to help with student stress?

Few recent graduates think that their law schools made an effort to help students with school-related stress, according to a new survey from the test prep company Kaplan Bar Review.

May 29, 2019 6:00 AM CDT

ABA’s Legal Ed approves two teach-out plan possibilities for Western State College of Law

Updated: Two teach-out plans for Western State College of Law, which is part of the embattled Argosy University System, have been approved by the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

May 28, 2019 1:40 PM CDT

How will deans improve bar passage rates to meet new standard?

Before the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar implemented a tighter bar passage standard last week, it posted a memo that named law schools that would likely fail the revision. Of the schools listed, two are currently operating under a teach-out plan. Deans from three of the other schools say they’ve had plans to improve bar passage rates prior to the revision of Standard 316.

May 23, 2019 3:54 PM CDT

Former ABA president dies at 85; he was ‘a champion’ for the rule of law and open government

Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte—a former ABA president who championed the rule of law throughout the world—died Monday at age 85. D’Alemberte was ABA president from 1991 to 1992 and helped found the ABA’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative in 1990 to help former Soviet bloc countries rebuild their court systems.…

May 21, 2019 2:30 PM CDT

ABA legal ed section’s council adopts tighter bar pass standard; clock for compliance starts now

Following multiple years of discussion, and two rejections from the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar adopted a proposed revision to tighten an accreditation standard regarding bar passage Friday.

May 17, 2019 4:29 PM CDT