Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
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Law Schools, Sponsored Content
Hofstra Law’s Judge Gail Prudenti On Pandemic Safety And The Future Of Legal Education
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Law Schools
T14 Law School Cancels Classes Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
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Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
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Law School Deans, Law Schools
Meet A New Law School Dean: An Interview With Judge Gail Prudenti
Hofstra Law's new leader describes her plans for improving bar exam passage and job placement.
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Law School Deans, Law Schools
The Next Dean Of Yale Law School (And Other Law Dean News)
Congratulations to a great scholar and teacher! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.16.17
* Are federal authorities investigating Fox News? [Law360]
* Has Trump made law school “cool again”? No. Law school was never cool. [Quartz]
* What do you know? Looks like some firms are finally waking up to the fact that they didn’t have good years and really couldn’t afford to jack up associate salaries. [ABA Journal]
* That said, Davis Polk just had its self-described “best year ever.” Did nobody tell these people Bowie died? [Am Law Daily]
* Judges say they understand technology, but contradictory rulings about discovery and “the cloud” may say otherwise. [Law.com]
* The litigation finance industry is leery of class actions. Should they be? [The Recorder]
* Then again, maybe it won’t matter because this Congress is trying to gut class actions by making it next to impossible to find lawyers willing to take on these cases. [Forbes]
* Hofstra Law is opening a clinic to serve immigrants dealing with deportation. [Newsday]
* Nobody actually likes the Rams or Chargers. That’s why Biglaw is in deep with a gaggle of antitrust suits brought by the people of Los Angeles over having to buy NFL Sunday Ticket. [Law.com]
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Law Schools
Are Law School Applications Bottoming Out? One School Sees A Remarkable Rise
How did this law school manage to almost double its number of applications? -
Bar Exams, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Dean Resigns After Abysmal Bar Passage Numbers
You can't keep putting up these numbers... -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Law School Blames Lazy Graduates With Low GPAs For Abysmal Performance On Bar Exam
This law school's bar exam passage rates continue to sink lower and lower. - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
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Law Schools
Harsh Message From Law School Right In The Middle Of Finals
This law school has a line item in its library budget just for trolling its students. -
Biglaw, Canada, Law School Deans, Law Schools, LSAT, Morning Docket, Rankings, U.S. News
Morning Docket: 03.13.14
* According to a confidential report from Deloitte, another major firm is set to follow in Heenan Blaikie’s footsteps within the next year. The sheer number of “sorries” after another Canadian Biglaw collapse would be simply terrifying. [Legal Post]
* Dean Demleitner of Washington & Lee Law doesn’t think its 3L reform program is to blame for its decline in rank. It’ll “take five to 10 years for the benefits of the program to become apparent.” Oh, that’s great… for the Class of 2023. [Fortune]
* Here’s another look at the U.S. News rankings. Compare Nebraska and Hofstra. One shot up in rank and tuition increased slightly. The other sank like a stone and tuition skyrocketed. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* For the first time in years, the number of LSAT test takers has increased by a whole 1.1 percent year over year. We can guarantee law schools will fight to the death to enroll those 213 students. [LSAT Blog]
* Judge Judy has never sued anyone, but now she’s suing a personal injury firm for using her picture in its ads. Damages recovered will be donated to scholarships for women. Classy lady. [New York Daily News]
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Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
Guess What Entry-Level Job This Unemployed Lawyer Is Seeking
Things are rough out there when law school grads are trying to get this job. -
Biglaw, Crime, Education / Schools, Sex, Sex Scandals
Lovely Latham Lawyer Makes Major Marital Mistake
Would you stay with a man who had sex with an underage girl in your marital bed? -
Cardozo Law School, Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Law Students, Pre-Law
Who Are the Happiest Law Students in New York City?
Tales from the ATL Insider Survey: where can you find the law students with the biggest smiles on their faces in NYC?
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
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Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Law Students, Pre-Law
Law Schools May Appear Worse in the Rearview Mirror
Which law schools' alumni have the worst views of their alma maters? Let's find out! -
Law Schools, Lunacy, Ridiculousness
A Law School Scarier Than The Job Market?
Hofstra Law students are battling poltergeists. -
Biglaw, Drugs, Immigration, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Marijuana, Money, Morning Docket, Murder, Paralegals, Partner Profits, Technology
Morning Docket: 01.29.13
* “[W]e cannot continue as a nation with 11 million people residing in the shadows.” And we especially can’t have all those people in the shadows without hundreds and hundreds of drones in place. Civil liberties be damned! [Huffington Post]
* According to this Wells Fargo survey, Biglaw did quite well in terms of revenues last year. Given that PPP was up nearly five percent, it’s now appropriate to bitch about why your bonuses weren’t even bigger than they were. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* “Being a lawyer is a damn good profession.” To be fair, it could be an even better profession if things in legal education were subjected to some serious change, and Hofstra Law’s new dean seems to understand that. [New York Law Journal]
* Stoners everywhere would like to know when the federal government is going to legalize marijuana, but to be frank, they should thank their Lucky Charms they’re not getting prosecuted in states where it is legal. [TIME]
* Russia is officially trying to prosecute a dead man — a dead lawyer, no less. That said, we’re pretty sure it’s safe to say that not even Yakov Smirnoff himself could come up with a reversal for this one. [New York Times]
* Oh my god, some of Lat’s pop culture prophecies are coming true: Casey Anthony wants to become a paralegal. Nancy Grace is in the process of birthing a herd of cows over Tot Mom’s ambitions. [ABC News]
* The grand jury in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case thought there was enough evidence to indict the Ramseys on child abuse charges. This would’ve been a great thing to be outraged about in 1999. [CBS News]
* I’ll be tweeting from the LegalTech show today. Follow me on Twitter to get all the latest updates. [Twitter]
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Barack Obama, Election 2012, Politics, Student Loans
At The Hofstra Debate, Both Candidates Dodge Student Debt Issue
The presidential debate last night featured no new ideas about dealing with student debt. -
Law Schools, Money, Ridiculousness
The Credited Response To Your Law School Asking For Money
If McKayla Maroney graduated from law school in 2010, and then the law school asked her for money... -
Asians, Biglaw, Blogging, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Old People
Morning Docket: 04.02.12
* Thinking of going to law school and leading a stereotypical Biglaw life of luxury? Perhaps you should consider taking ex-K&E partner Steven Harper’s class at Northwestern. You might just change your mind. [Chicago Tribune]
* The HuffPo’s unpaid bloggers are going to stay that way for now, because Jonathan Tasini’s $105M class action suit has been dismissed. Perhaps he’ll get another SCOTUS case under his belt. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Parts of Junie Hoang’s lawsuit against IMDb have survived dismissal, but she can kiss her $1M damages claim goodbye. Too bad, because at her age, she could really use the retirement money. [Hollywood Reporter]
* Hofstra’s going to Havana, but it’s not to get career advice from Fidel. Instead, students will learn about U.S. export law. Sigh. You don’t need to go to Cuba to find out you can’t bring back cigars. [National Law Journal]
* Who’s the latest lady love in Lindsay Lohan’s life? Shawn Holley. LiLo reportedly whispered sweet nothings into her lawyer’s ear after she was freed from the bonds of supervised probation. [Los Angeles Times]
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Plaintiffs Firms, Student Loans, Unemployment
The Latest News in the Law School Lawsuits
The litigation against law schools made the front page of Metro, New York's big commuter paper, this morning. What's the latest news?