Law School Deans
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Federal Government, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Politics, Student Loans
Federal Government Profiting Handsomely Off Your Debt
And yet the government seems unwilling or unable to remedy the situation. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Should The ABA Push Back Jobs Data Collection From Nine Months to Ten Months After Graduation?
If law deans hadn't squandered all their credibility long ago, this proposal wouldn't sound so suspicious. - Sponsored
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Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? University of Minnesota Law School Edition
Professors at Minnesota Law might not make as much as their coastal counterparts, but they still do quite nicely.
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Politics, Real Estate
NYU Law's Secret Slush Funds
Documents reveal that NYU Law School uses a number of "non-profit" entities that funnel funds into playing the New York real estate market for the benefit of its professors. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.06.13
* A recovering attorney is starting a cake pop business. Never had a cake pop? Then you’re dumb. Or, I guess, diabetic. Sorry if you’re diabetic. [Kickstarter] * Wondering what happened to the survivors of the crash of the USS Vengeance in the new Star Trek movie? This is how their trials would likely go down. [The Legal Geeks] * If you’re looking for a new dean for your law school, look no further. [Law Prof Blawg] * Student debt is crushing the business dreams of a Tulane law grad. Apparently she just can’t make her payments running her sorority recruiting business. Wait a minute? I thought “sororities” handle “sorority recruiting.” [Bloomberg] * New York City feels hipsters everyone needs to be warned not to wear bowling shoes outside. [Lowering the Bar] * As promised, the second installment of an interview with biochemist attending Yale Law School. [Science to Law] * Before rising 3Ls realize nobody is coming to interview them, maybe we should point them towards the Schola2Juris program of Waller Lansden? It’s application period opens on June 7th. [Schola2Juris] -
California, Eugene Volokh, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? UCLA Law Edition
The top professors at UCLA Law do very, very well for themselves. -
Affirmative Action, Biglaw, Disasters / Emergencies, Election Law, Gay Marriage, Insurance, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Pro Bono, Real Estate, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Morning Docket: 05.29.13
* This year, like every year before it, SCOTUS is saving the best cases (read: most controversial) for last. We’ll likely see opinions on voting rights, affirmative action, and gay marriage in June. [WSJ Law Blog]
* We know of at least one Biglaw firm that will be putting its increase in gross revenue to work. Boies Schiller is planning to open its first office outside of the United States in the “near-term.” [Am Law Daily]
* If you’d like to get paid under a terrorism insurance policy for your damages in the Boston bombings, you’ll have to wait; the bombings haven’t been certified as acts of terror yet. [National Law Journal]
* Mandatory pro bono work is now required for bar admission in New York, but it’s still not enough to close the justice gap. Now Chief Judge Lippman wants to give non-lawyers a chance to provide legal services. [New York Law Journal]
* Arizona Law recently made the announcement that interim dean Marc Miller has been instated as the school’s permanent dean. What’s not to like about a “new” dean and new tuition cuts? [UANews]
* As many of our readers know, the job market is rough, but apparently if you take some compliance classes in law school, you’ll magically become employable. Great success! [Corporate Counsel]
* Brooklyn Law, do you remember what your old dorm looked like? It’s different now that it’s been transformed into an apartment complex that’s no longer stained with the tears of law students. [Curbed]
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Biglaw, California, Celebrities, Constitutional Law, D.C. Circuit, Deaths, Education / Schools, Eric Holder, Federalist Society, Gay, Gay Marriage, Gender, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Litigatrix, Morning Docket, Police, Politics, Religion, SCOTUS, Shoes, Supreme Court, White House Counsel
Morning Docket: 05.28.13
* Let’s get ready to rumble! Some of the Supreme Court’s most controversial opinions yet are expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks — and maybe even today. Stay tuned for news. [CNN]
* Let’s see what happens when Obama nominates three judges at once to the D.C. Circuit. How many of them will be confirmed as quickly as Sri Srinivasan? Probably not many. [New York Times]
* White House counsel and leading litigatrix Kathryn Ruemmler is best known for her fabulous shoes, but this week, she’s taking some flak for her involvement in the IRS scandal. [New York Times]
* “I don’t know whether the Lord Himself could get confirmed at this point.” It looks like poor Attorney General Eric Holder doesn’t have very many people left to turn to thanks to executive and congressional inaction. [Bloomberg]
* When it comes to recent diversity efforts in Biglaw there’s an ebb, but not really a flow, and it’s all being blamed on the recession. Also, “diversity fatigue” is apparently a thing now. [New York Times]
* The $200 million gender discrimination suit filed against Greenberg Traurig over the firm’s alleged “old boys club” has been settled for an undisclosed amount. You go girl! [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* According to Judge Murray Snow, Arizona’s most beloved sheriff, Joe Arpaio, has been violating the constitutional rights of all of the Latinos whom he supposedly “hadn’t” been racially profiling. [Reuters]
* My, how things change: David Blankenhorn, a man who once testified as an expert witness in support of Proposition 8 at trial, has come forward to condemn anti-marriage equality laws. [Los Angeles Times]
* Stewart Schwab, the dean of Cornell Law School, will step down in June 2014. Perhaps the next dean will crack down on the number of cam girls pleasuring themselves in the law library. [Cornell Chronicle]
* Law schools tend to be “bastions of liberalism,” which makes it hard for students to find intellectual diversity. It’s a good thing we’ve got the Federalist Society to balance things out. [Washington Times]
* People who think Washington needs another law school propose one for students “who can’t afford to … go into debt … to get their legal degree.” This won’t sit well with the legal academy. [News Tribune]
* With Lindsay Lohan stuck in rehab, Amanda Bynes decided it was her turn to go wild. The retired actress says she’s suing the NYPD for unlawful arrest and sexual harassment. [New York Daily News]
* Alton Lemon, the Supreme Court plaintiff behind the eponymous Lemon test, RIP. [New York Times]
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, McCarter & English, Media and Journalism
Get A New Dean, Hire PR Firm, ???, PROFIT!
Instead of improving its product, this law school apparently just wants a different way of talking about it.... -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, LLMs, Rankings, Ridiculousness
The Worst LL.M. Programs... In The World
LL.M. programs are generally useless, but these are useless and funny... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Defamation, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Wake Forest Lawsuit Follow-Up
More on the underlying tiff between a student and Wake Forest Law. -
Defamation, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Law Student Sues Law School For Implying He's Litigious
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, LSAT
A Stunning Admissions Admission About LSATs
How much does your LSAT score really matter these days?
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Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Texas
How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? University of Texas Edition
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Is that true of law professor salaries? -
Evan Caminker, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? Michigan Law Edition
One can live well in Ann Arbor on a six-figure salary.... -
Bar Exams, Crime, Gay Marriage, In-House Counsel, Law School Deans, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, Racism, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 05.03.13
* “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]
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Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Student Loans
Could Law Schools PLEASE Stop Whining About The Nine Months After Graduation Statistic? You Sound Like Babies.
Law schools don't seem to care about employment along the same timeline as loan officers... -
Crime, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Law Student Arrested for Anti-Semitic, Racist, Threatening Comments
Mutilated Barbie dolls and racist emails. Sounds totally normal. -
Intellectual Property, Jury Duty, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Prisons, Technology
Non-Sequiturs: 04.29.13
* The saddest thing about prisons getting rated on Yelp is owning the bar down the street with fewer stars. [Simple Justice] * Sending “LOL totes glty” is a bad idea. [IT-Lex] * The chief of the Brooklyn DA’s gang bureau probably should have spent more time with the civil rights bureau. [NY Post] * People don’t really pay attention to the U.S. News Best Intellectual Property Program rankings — though it’d help if they did. [Science to Law] * UNLV’s Nancy Rapoport thinks law schools are no better than Enron. That sounds about right. [TaxProf Blog] * When it comes to the Boston bombings, Logan Beirne answers, “What would George Washington do?” [Reuters] * Tenure has put a crimp in the ability of law schools to excel in the ranking system that considers publication. [Ramblings on Appeal] * Kickstarter plug: A progressive Yale student took a year off to make a documentary about a conservative activist group, the Tennessee 9-12 Project, to show civility and respect. [Kickstarter] -
Boalt Hall, John Yoo, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? Berkeley Law Edition
The socioeconomic voyeurism continues. Today we look at faculty salaries at Berkeley Law.