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School Website
NALP
Region
Southwest
State
California
Dean
Rachel F. Moran
Enrollment
999
Student/Faculty Ratio
10.9
Talking Points
  • School was forced to operate in a Quonset hut for the first two years of its operation, until a building could be constructed.
  • Notable Alumni: Eugene Volokh (Professor, blogger), Kirsten Gillibrand (US Senator), Laurie Levensen (Professor and TV legal commenter).

Recent Headlines from Above the Law

 

Another difference: more briefs, fewer breasts.

Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 / 3:20 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 14, 2013 / 1:36 PM

The school-by-school breakdown of the California bar exam results is out. Let’s take a look!

Friday, Jan 4, 2013 / 2:45 PM

* On the even of the Supreme Court’s conference that will determine whether a gay marriage case will be on the docket in 2013, a federal judge ruled that Nevada can ban the practice in the state. Not fab. :( [BuzzFeed]

* A bankruptcy judge gave Dewey & LeBoeuf’s unsecured creditors the go-ahead to sue the pants off Joel Sanders and the Steves (a moniker for what likely would’ve been an extremely orange band). [Am Law Daily]

* Hostess Brands received final approval to wind down its business and begin selling off its Twinkies to satisfy its creditors, but not before $1.8M in bonuses payouts were authorized. [DealBook / New York Times]

* Foul balls: as if his public tiff with Lance Armstrong and indecent exposure sentence weren’t enough, Clark Calvin Griffith is facing bar discipline over his pervy predilections. [Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal]

* UCLA School of Law recently announced its plans to offer an LL.M. in Law and Sexuality. Now, recall that just one month ago, Justice Scalia advised students not to take “law and _____” courses. [National Law Journal]

* Dominique Strauss-Kahn agreed to settle a suit brought against him by a hotel maid who accused him of rape. We still don’t know the dollar amount, but we bet he kept his aggravated pimp hand strong. [Bloomberg]

* A day in the life of Lindsay Lohan includes an arrest for assault in New York, followed by charges related to a car crash in California. Her legal drama is almost as bad as Liz & Dick. [Daily Dish / San Francisco Chronicle]

* Jerry Finkelstein, former publisher of the New York Law Journal, RIP. [New York Law Journal]

* George C. Kern Jr., Sullivan & Cromwell’s M&A maven, RIP. [New York Times]

Friday, Nov 30, 2012 / 9:11 AM

Readers come forward to defend the two Berkeley law students accused of killing an exotic bird in Las Vegas.

Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 / 7:12 PM

Continuing coverage of the two Berkeley law students accused of beheading an exotic bird — including comment from Boalt Hall’s dean, Christopher Edley, and the full Las Vegas police report, which has all sorts of interesting details.

Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 / 5:48 PM

Let’s learn more about Eric Cuellar and Justin Teixeira, the two Boalt Hall law students who have made national (and even international) news, after being accused of killing an exotic bird in Las Vegas.

Monday, Oct 15, 2012 / 2:13 PM

Sometimes when women lawyers get married and decide to start having children, they leave the law — but the law never leaves them…

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012 / 12:17 PM

Check out the new ATL Law School Research Directory!

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 / 3:26 PM

Remember the lawyers who were accused of planting drugs on the PTA president earlier this summer? Now they’re facing a civil suit…

Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012 / 12:07 PM

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