Law Schools

UC Berkeley Law reduces budget by 2 percent amid university-wide cuts

Corrected: University of California at Berkeley School of Law reduced its budget by $2 million and will eliminate some of its associate dean positions in the face of university-wide cutbacks, the Daily Californian reports. Carol Christ, who took over as chancellor July 1, unveiled a plan to reduce the university’s…

Aug 15, 2017 1:04 PM CDT

Charlotte School of Law’s state license expires after missed deadline

The Charlotte School of Law’s operating license has reportedly expired, leaving unclear what happens next to the embattled school or its students. WBTV and Inside Higher Ed had the story. The law school did not met a Thursday deadline set in by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors,…

Aug 11, 2017 6:04 PM CDT

Reduction in law school applications result in favorable upsides for some

Law school applications have dropped precipitously in the face of a weak job market and questions about the future for legal employment, according to U.S. News & World Report, though applicants have gained leverage in negotiating scholarships and financial aid. Another upside for those interested in going to law school…

Aug 10, 2017 10:08 AM CDT

Georgetown Law says it will accept the GRE as an entrance test

Georgetown Law announced Monday that for its 2018 entering class, it will accept scores from the Graduate Record Examination or the Law School Admissions Test.

Georgetown is the country’s largest law school, Law.com (sub. req.) reports.

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law also announced Monday that it will accept the GRE or the LSAT in admissions, starting in the fall of 2018 for admissions in the fall of 2019.

Aug 7, 2017 3:21 PM CDT

Northwestern’s law school says it will accept the GRE as an entrance test

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law will accept the Graduate Record Examination or the Law School Admissions Test for admissions starting in the fall of 2018 for admissions the following fall, the school announced on Monday.

Aug 7, 2017 8:26 AM CDT

Troubled Passage: Charlotte School of Law faces an uncertain future, but it is not alone

Charlotte and its sister law schools might seem like outliers, but they are not. A surge of problems has swept over these campuses—a stagnant job market, onerous student debt, disappointing bar passage rates, declining law school applications, and allegations of reduced entrance standards to fill law school seats.

Aug 1, 2017 12:15 AM CDT

Charlotte School of Law says it may get federal loan cash; Education Department says not so fast

The Charlotte School of Law announced that the U.S. Department of Education "is prepared to reinstate the school’s ability to award" federal student loan money under the Title IV program.

Jul 31, 2017 5:31 PM CDT

InfiLaw investors let out of students’ fraud lawsuit against Charlotte School of Law

Investors in the parent company of InfiLaw Corp. on Thursday won a motion to get out of a fraud lawsuit brought against Charlotte School of Law, which is owned by InfiLaw Corp. The motion-to-dismiss order, which refers to defendants Sterling Capital Partners L.P. and Sterling Capital Partners GMBH & CO.…

Jul 28, 2017 12:18 PM CDT

Plaintiffs lawyer donates $7.5M to Duquesne Law for judicial education

Thomas R. Kline, a Pennsylvania plaintiff lawyer, has donated $7.5 million to Duquesne University School of Law, to set up a continuing legal education program for state court judges there. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that all state court judges must take at least 12 hours of CLE annually,…

Jul 26, 2017 11:00 AM CDT

F. Leary Davis, founding dean of two law schools, dies at age 75

The only person believed to be the founding dean of two law schools has died at the age of 75. F. Leary Davis Jr. died Thursday from leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Greensboro News & Record reports. Davis was named dean of…

Jul 24, 2017 3:01 PM CDT

Texas Southern’s law school receives ABA public censure after sex discrimination allegations

Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law has been publicly censured by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar after gender discrimination allegations from a female associate dean.

Jul 20, 2017 2:14 PM CDT

NIU gives former law dean $95K for off-campus research

In exchange for not getting sued, Northern Illinois University agreed to pay $95,000 to Eric Dannenmaier, its former law school dean, who recently resigned after a campus Title IX investigation that found it was more likely than not he sexually harassed employees.

Jul 17, 2017 1:26 PM CDT

ABA committee weighs adding gender identity, ethnicity to law school accreditation diversity rules

Proposed revisions (PDF) to add gender identity and ethnicity to existing rules regarding diversity, nondiscrimination and equal opportunity are being considered by the Standards Review Committee of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar at its July 15 meeting in Chicago. The proposed revisions state that…

Jul 11, 2017 2:35 PM CDT

Law prof’s exam question on Brazilian wax is deemed harassment; is academic freedom threatened?

A Howard University law professor says academics everywhere should be concerned by his school’s response to a 2015 exam question about a Brazilian bikini wax. The school determined in May that the question by Professor Reginald Robinson constituted sexual harassment under school policy, report Law.com (sub. req.) and Inside Higher…

Jul 10, 2017 4:05 PM CDT

For-profit Florida Coastal tightens admissions standards and reduces class offerings

The for-profit Florida Coastal School of Law is not on probation by the American Bar Association, like the other two law schools in the InfiLaw System, but the Jacksonville law school says it has introduced stricter admission requirements.

Jul 5, 2017 9:35 AM CDT