Law Schools

Some ex-students join Charlotte School of Law in limited settlement fund motion

Updated: A joint motion to settle a proposed class action brought by former students of the shuttered for-profit Charlotte School of Law was filed Tuesday with one group of plaintiffs opting not to join. The school agreed to pay $2.65 million for a limited settlement fund, Law360 reports. The action…

Sep 13, 2018 6:05 AM CDT

Remove Boalt references from UC Berkeley Law, school committee says

In light of racist views held by 19th-century mining industry baron John Henry Boalt, a University of California Berkeley law school committee has suggested removing his last name from a campus building, as well as in internal communications and casual namings. A Nevada attorney who came to California in the…

Sep 11, 2018 1:55 PM CDT

Cooley Law’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, campus approved by ABA’s Legal Ed section

Updated: Following months of litigation, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s application to establish a branch in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The campus opening was “effective immediately,” according to an Aug. 17 Cooley Law…

Sep 11, 2018 6:05 AM CDT

Florida Coastal still out of compliance with accreditation standards, ABA legal ed council says

The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has affirmed its findings that Florida Coastal School of Law is out of compliance with certain accreditation standards—increasing the likelihood that the matter will be settled in court.

Sep 4, 2018 3:13 PM CDT

Miguel Willis: Bringing law to the last frontier

Miguel Willis is only 29, and he’s already created his own job—twice.

Sep 1, 2018 2:25 AM CDT

Dan Linna: Taking the measure of legal innovation

When his law firm enlisted then-litigator Daniel W. Linna Jr. for a presentation on evaluating potential trial outcomes, he presented his Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn peers with a hypothetical case—a teaching approach he used later as an adjunct at the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law.

Sep 1, 2018 2:25 AM CDT

Exploring the contours of context in using the N-word in class

While this may serve a pedagogical purpose for non-African-American students, it can create an abusive and degrading learning environment for African-American students, whose very reaction to the word is used as a teaching point.

Aug 28, 2018 6:05 AM CDT

Halting the hover: Dealing with helicopter parents in law school (podcast)

As an associate dean of the University of Houston Law Center, Sondra Tennessee has witnessed her share of helicopter parents. She’s seen parents ask law schools to switch their child’s professor, because they didn’t think he or she was a good fit.

Aug 27, 2018 6:05 AM CDT

Judge tosses Georgetown law grad’s suit over school job fair ban

A federal judge in Texas has tossed a $5 million lawsuit against Georgetown University’s law school by a graduate who claimed he was barred as an employer from a school hiring fair because of discrimination and retaliation.

Aug 17, 2018 6:00 AM CDT

No fall classes at Arizona Summit, school says, and a teach-out plan is being negotiated

Updated: Arizona Summit School of Law will not be holding classes this fall, and it’s negotiating a teach-out agreement with another law school, according to a statement released by the school Tuesday.

Aug 14, 2018 2:20 PM CDT

After withdrawal of law school admissions test rule revision, will fewer schools accept the GRE?

Law school deans expect that fewer schools than anticipated will now be accepting entrance exams besides the LSAT. And while it seems clear that those schools planning to do so must submit validity studies, how school-specific do those studies need to be?

Aug 9, 2018 6:10 AM CDT

Plan to drop law school entry exam requirement withdrawn before ABA House vote

The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar withdrew a resolution before the ABA House of Delegates on Monday that called for cutting Standard 503, which requires an exam for law school admission, and beefing up Standard 501 to include the use of admission credentials and academic attrition when determining accreditation compliance.

Aug 6, 2018 7:26 PM CDT

Legal education council delays action on questionnaire guidance

As the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar awaits action on a proposal to eliminate an admissions test requirement for law schools, its council postponed decisions on new guidance for annual questionnaires, which are used for 509 Reports. Part of the Friday’s discussion, held during ABA…

Aug 3, 2018 7:14 PM CDT

Panel denies motion to consolidate suits against ABA by 3 InfiLaw schools

An American Bar Association motion to consolidate three federal actions filed by for-profit law schools owned by InfiLaw, all alleging due process violations regarding law school accreditation, was denied by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

Aug 2, 2018 10:01 AM CDT

Presidents of Arizona Summit and Cooley Law are leaving their positions

Both Donald Lively, the president of InfiLaw’s for-profit Arizona Summit School of Law, and Don LeDuc, the president and dean of Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, are leaving their positions.

Aug 1, 2018 2:29 PM CDT