Law School Litigation Update: Kurzon LLP Sues Cooley Law School for Defamation
Cooley Law School gets sued for defamation on Friday the 13th… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Cooley Law, Cooley Law / Thomas M. Cooley Law School,...
View ArticleWill American Law Schools Adapt To The Changing Legal Market? Ever? Do They...
There are lots of ideas about how to reform legal education, and it seems like the ABA isn’t paying attention to any of them… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on...
View ArticleLaw School Over-Promises Financial Aid; Will Have $2.4 Million Shortfall Over...
Law school costs so much that even the law school has to go into debt to finance the education… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Brandon Hamilton, Jim...
View ArticleA Law Dean Switches Schools — Not At The End of the Year, But Right Now,...
A law school dean unexpectedly jumps ship, in the middle of the summer… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Connecticut, Departure Memo, Departure Memos,...
View ArticleComment of the Week: Would That Law Schools Were More Like College Football...
The comment of the week makes us wish everything was more like college football… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: College Football, Comment of the...
View ArticleStanford Law School Has A New Dean
Stanford Law School has a new dean. Who will be filling Larry Kramer’s shoes? Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Dean Larry Kramer, Dean Liz Magill,...
View ArticleLaw School Dean Takes On ‘The Blogs’ But He Doesn’t Have The Facts On His Side
Instead of releasing statements full of spin, law students could demand that their dean owns up and apologizes… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Law...
View ArticleLaw School Dean Blasts University In Passionate Resignation Letter
Law deans need to rise up against and defend their budgets against university presidents… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Annette Clark, Annette E....
View ArticleUniversity President Claims He Intended to Terminate Ex-Dean’s Appointment,...
More news on the dean resignation dust-up at St. Louis University School of Law. Who will be the interim dean? The choice might surprise you…. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 08.15.12
* What do Tiger Woods’s sexts, Anthony Weiner’s wiener, and the newsworthiness exception to copyright infringement have in common? They’re all in this colorful Ninth Circuit dissent. [National Law...
View ArticleNew York’s New Pro Bono Requirement Succeeds in Pissing Off Law Schools...
Will New York’s new pro bono requirement for bar admission cause law school tuition to rise? Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Bar Exams, Chief Judge...
View ArticleLaw Dean Denies That He Is Priest’s ‘Butt Boy’
New law school dean tells reporter he’s not the university president’s “butt boy.” Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Annette Clark, Annette E. Clark,...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: Frankly, We’re Stunned
This law dean says he doesn’t want his students’ money — and then appears to back it up with actions. Wow. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Donald...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 09.19.12
* Steven Davis, D&L’s former chairman, really wants to make sure he’ll be able to use the firm’s insurance policy to defend himself, or else he’ll “suffer undue hardship.” Sorry, but after all the...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 09.25.12
* Will the members of the Supreme Court announce which gay marriage issues they’ll be hearing this term any time soon? With Proppsition 8 appeal and several DOMA appeals on hand, there’s certainly a...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 09.26.12
* To prepare for the upcoming term, the Supreme Court added six new cases to its docket. Much to our chagrin, none of them are about gay marriage. In other news, Matt Kaiser was right: this is a term...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 09.27.12
* A former Cravath law librarian is fighting his “effective termination” from Southern Illinois University School of Law over alleged threats to bash a colleague in the head with a crowbar. How...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 10.04.12
* According to a CNN poll, 67 percent of people who watched the debate thought Mitt Romney won, while only 25 percent thought Barack Obama won. Well, either way you slice it, there was definitely one...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 10.11.12
* Everyone’s happy about the Dewey & LeBoeuf settlement except the Ad Hoc Committee and its LeBoeuf retirees, who called Judge Martin Glenn’s attempt to slap them down an “insult to injury.” [WSJ...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 10.12.12
* “Enough is enough.” Come on, Togut, did you really think all of the Dewey drama was going to end just because the judge approved your settlement plan? Now he’s trying to get the former partners...
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