Above the Law

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School Website
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Region
Southwest
State
California
Dean
Austen L. Parrish (Interim)
Enrollment
1,095
Student/Faculty Ratio
14.3
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Notable alumni include: Donald Sterling (Owner, LA Clippers), Ronald Lew (CA District Court Judge), Jean Casarez (truTV correspondent), Marcia Clark (lead prosecutor in the OJ Simpson case)


Recent Headlines from Above the Law

 

* “It’s a fine line society walks in trying to be fair.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke earlier this week on the perils of racial profiling with respect to the Chechen suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Were we fair here? [Associated Press]

* What keeps in-house counsel awake at night — aside from the tremendous piles of money they’re rolling around in? Apparently they’re expecting an “onslaught” of food labeling and data breach class actions. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]

* Susan Westerberg Prager, known for being the longest-serving dean ever at UCLA School of Law, will take up the deanship at another illustrious institution, Southwestern Law School. [National Law Journal]

* The February results for the New York bar exam are out, and with the highest number of test-takers ever, the pass rate was brutal. We may have more on this later. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]

* Rhode Island just got a little more fabulous. The Ocean State legalized gay marriage yesterday, making it the tenth state to do so, and uniting New England in marriage equality for all. [Bloomberg]

* Back in December, we told you about an alleged “well-dressed” groper — an unemployed lawyer, as it were. Well, now there’s nothing alleged about it, because that guy just pleaded guilty. [New York Post]

Friday, May 3, 2013 / 9:04 AM

Defenses, or excuses? Persuasive, or not?

Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 / 2:41 PM

Do you have something to say about your law school’s U.S. News ranking? This is the place to do it!

Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 / 12:25 PM

Do you have something to say about your law school’s U.S. News ranking? This is the place to do it!

Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 / 2:45 PM

Have you ever wanted a legitimate legal analysis of Jay-Z’s smash hit “99 problems”? Well, your wait is over.

Wednesday, Jul 11, 2012 / 4:41 PM

* How many cops does it take to kill a man? [Simple Justice]

* Professor Paul Campos has been having fun with the NALP numbers. Well, fun for him, and for me. Less fun for anybody unlucky enough to have been part of the class of 2011. [Inside the Law School Scam]

* And if you don’t like to read, here’s some video about how bad the job market is for the class of 2011. ARE YOU LISTENING, PROSPECTIVE LAW STUDENTS? CAN YOU TAKE IN AND PROCESS INFORMATION? [Bloomberg Law]

* How come my anonymous readers don’t drop $25 million on me? I’d name a whole wing of my new house after them. And give them a T-shirt. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]

* In the recession, we cling to what we have instead of striking out into the unknown. In related news: if you leave your law job, there’ll be a stampede of people happy to take your spot. [What About Clients?]

* I don’t even think you should be allowed to defend yourself pro se. [Underdog]

* Southwestern Law’s Dean Bryant Garth is stepping down. One of these days, somebody will let me run a law school. [Southwestern Law School]

Friday, Jun 8, 2012 / 5:31 PM

* Defense lawyer: “I think you’ll be returning a verdict of ‘guilty’ on each and every one of these counts. I mean, crap… Scratch that, reverse it.” [NewsNet 5 Ohio] * It really stinks that Chick-fil-A is a little bit evil, because their food is SO GOOD. [TaxProf Blog] * Attorneys with more pronounceable names…

Thursday, Mar 1, 2012 / 6:07 PM

Back in October, we informed our readers that law school litigators Jesse Strauss and David Anziska intended to file class action lawsuits against 15 additional schools, on top of the two they’d already filed against Cooley Law and New York Law School. In mid-December, we brought you an update on the status of those potential filings after Anziska told us that at least three named plaintiffs had been secured for 11 out of the 15 law schools on October’s target list. And now, about a month and a half later, have we got some news for you….

Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 / 2:53 PM

Late last year, plaintiffs’ lawyer David Anziska pledged to make 2012 “the year of law school litigation.” Anziska, who’s currently spearheading efforts to sue law schools over allegedly misleading employment statistics, told my colleague Staci Zaretsky that he and his team members “want to sue as many law schools as we can to bring them…

Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 / 11:12 AM

Back in October, we brought you the news that Jesse Strauss and David Anziska intended to sue 15 more law schools over their post-graduate employment rates, in addition to their already pending class action suits against Cooley Law and New York Law School. As mentioned during their October 5 media conference, Team Strauss/Anziska will not…

Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 / 4:02 PM

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  • Ratings*

    Student Rating ? C-
    Alumni Rating ? A
      Student Alumni
    Academics C- A-
    Practical/Clinical Training B A
    Career Counseling B- A
    Financial Aid Advising C- A-
    Social Life C- A-
  • Employment

    Total Employed ? 71%
    LST
    Score ? 43%
    School Funded 0.30%
    Large Firm 3.40%
    Federal Clerkships 0%
    Government 3.69%
    Public Interest 3.02%
    Top Biglaw Employers ?
    1. McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
    2. O’Melveny & Myers LLP
    3. Alston & Bird LLP
  • Cost

    Tuition   $36,750
    Total Investment ?   $258,900
  • Admissions

    35.7 / 100
    applicants are accepted.
    3.55 / 10
    admitted students enroll.
     
    LSAT (25/75) 153/158
    GPA (25/75) 3.22/3.56
  • US News Rank

    Rank Not Published