June 2009

  • Email Scandals, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rod Blagojevich

    University of Illinois College of Law Scandal: Now With Emails

    This morning, we mentioned the University of Illinois College of Law admissions scandal. It appears that former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pressured the University of Illinois Chancellor, Richard Herman, and Heidi Hurd, former dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, to admit underqualified students who were politically connected. In exchange for admitting those […]
  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 06.26.09

    * Don’t forget, on Monday we’ll be trying to help you secure your financial future. And we’ll be doing it for free. [Above the Law] * The Chief Justice was not a huge fan of Michael Jackson back in the day. Or a “newcomer who goes by the name, Prince.” I would love to know […]
  • Roofiegate Returns: Suffolk Superior Court, Here We Come

    The Moor is back — and we’re not talking Othello. From Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: Three months after the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination dismissed her complaint, a former Bingham McCutchen associate has fired back with a gender-discrimination suit against the Boston firm she left in 2008. In a highly charged complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court […]

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