A former University of Virginia law student says he recanted a claim that he had been racially profiled by university police officers in 2011 because he was pressured during…
Legal education is too complex, expensive and disconnected, and the American Bar Association has an “effective monopoly” on law school accreditation, according to Gillian Hadfield, a member of the organization’s…
Between 2010 and 2014, net tuition declined the most at middle-ranked law schools, due to merit scholarship patterns associated with maintaining or improving rankings, according to a law review article by Jerome M. Organ, which looks at variable returns on investing in a law degree.
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,…
A Massachusetts judge has found a woman guilty of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide and then failing to tell him to stop as he carried out…
Corrected: A Harvard Law School deferral program that accepts applications from juniors at the college will be offered to students at other colleges and universities nationwide starting this fall.
A federal judge in Boston is proposing the appointment of a special master to review the accuracy of legal bills submitted by several prominent law firms—and is suggesting the firms…
The top court in Massachusetts refused on Wednesday to order wholesale dismissal of more than 20,000 criminal cases linked to a chemist who faked drug test results to favor the…
The document is more than 85 years old, handwritten and hard to read. Many death certificates from this period are ambiguous or euphemistic: The victim died from a “broken neck.”…
Police use facial recognition software to regularly scan driver’s license photos in Massachusetts when hunting for suspects, a practice that is also being used elsewhere.
Taking a cue from their Republican counterparts, some Democratic state attorneys general are prepared to file lawsuits that challenge Donald Trump’s administration’s actions.
An argument advanced by Republicans—that states must…