University of Maryland School of Law
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Defamation, Election 2012, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Politics, Trials
Morning Docket: 03.07.12
* All your base are belong to… Rick Santorum? Error! Malfunction! Super Tuesday was not quite as super as Mitt Romney was hoping for. Looks like it’s time to reprogram the Mitt-bot so he can conquer the true conservatives. [CNN]
* And the Cebulls**t just keeps on coming. Now Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are calling for a hearing and an investigation on the consequences of the federal judge’s racist email. [Associated Press]
* After wrapping up a Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Lehman Brothers, Weil Gotshal’s bill came to $383M. And sadly, that’s probably going to be the only “spring bonus” associates will see this year. [Am Law Daily]
* Complete pwnage: a handful of LulzSec hacktivists were arrested after their leader, an FBI informant, turned on them. How will this affect the Anonymous movement? More importantly, who cares? [New York Times]
* No postponements for you, Casey Anthony. Try as she might, the acquitted ex-MILF just can’t escape the defamation lawsuit filed by a woman who was only supposed to be make believe. [Washington Post]
* Don’t like Maryland Law’s environmental clinic litigation? Offer another public law school $500K to represent the defendants. Because if anyone would take a bribe, it would be Baltimore Law. [National Law Journal]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Environment / Environmental Law, Hair, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Prisons, Rod Blagojevich
Morning Docket: 02.16.12
* It looks like the Biglaw buzzwords for 2012 are “challenge” and “uncertainty.” Good! Great! Grand! Wonderful! Speaking of uncertainty, where are the spring bonuses? [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * Kodak got the go-ahead for a $950M bankruptcy financing deal. Just think, if you had taken pictures using a film camera instead of a […]
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Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Law Schools
Maryland Law's Response Highlights Career Services 'Expertise'
On Tuesday, we brought you news of a job opportunity that is currently available on the University of Maryland School of Law's Symplicity job bank. When we first wrote about the listing, we called it a "career services nightmare." After all, the job had more to do with orange parking cones than the law. Instead of hanging their heads in shame for trying to sell a job as a parking garage manager to its students, the career development office issued a vigorous defense of this exciting opportunity in vehicular supervision and coordination. The email was written by the assistant dean for career development herself. What did she have to say?
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Career Alternatives, Cars, Job Searches, Law Schools
Maryland Law's Tuition Is Down, But So Is the Quality of Its Job Listings
Back in December 2010, we reported that tuition at the University of Maryland School of Law would not be subject to the four percent hike for the 2011-2012 academic year that was thrust upon the rest of the programs doing business at the university's Baltimore campus. At the time, we gave Maryland Law major kudos for protecting its students from tuition increases. Now, we wonder if a just little more tuition money would have prevented this career services nightmare.... -
Food, Law Schools
Man Drops Out Of Law School, Prepares For Zombie Apocalypse
Recently, we came across a student who was a part of the class of 2010, but dropped out, voluntarily, in 2009. Sure, we found him now that he's unemployed and literally running out of food as we speak. But trust us, if you're ever living in a world overrun by zombies, you're going to want to make your way to this guy's house. He'll be prepared for the worst.... -
Biglaw, California, Email Scandals, Facebook, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Pictures, Technology
Morning Docket: 09.06.11
* According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 100 new jobs were added to the legal industry last month. About 40,000 students graduated from law school this spring. You do the math. [Am Law Daily] * This Maryland law school dean thinks that the U.S. News rankings “generalize about things that are not generalizable.” Come […]
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Education / Schools, Law Schools, Money, Public Interest, Student Loans
Can't Get a Job? Lacking Lawyer Skills? Try Working for Your School's Law Firm
There has been a lot of talk in the media lately about how law schools are failing to adequately prepare recent graduates for the working world. Law schools have also been under fire for their apparently inability to employ recent graduates in the legal work force. And in the spirit of killing two birds with one stone, law schools may soon have a solution for both of these problems.... -
Law Schools, Money
If Tuition Stays Down, I Don't Give A Damn What They Call It
If your law school sells its naming rights but keeps tuition flat, would you protest? That’s the question facing students at the University of Maryland School of Law. They woke up on Monday morning to find out that instead of going to an easily identifiably state law school, they’ll soon be going to something called […] - Sponsored
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Cardozo Law School, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Start Your Whining (Part 2): U.S. News Makes Law Schools Squirm All Across the Land
Yesterday we talked about a couple of schools that fell in this year’s U.S. News law school rankings, whose deans promptly devoted school-wide emails making excuses for their programs dropping. Predictably, they criticized U.S. News’s latest methodology, even though this year’s formula did a better job of focusing on factors law students actually care about […] -
Ave Maria School of Law, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans, Trendspotting
Law Schools Join the Ranks of Institutions Averse To Profiteering During a Rough Economy
You can’t call it a trend just yet, but the University of New Hampshire School of Law has joined Maryland Law and Miami Law in the fight to keep law school tuition down during a still-recovering economy. The school reports it will not be raising tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year. It’s a sad state […] -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Kudos to Maryland Law for Protecting Its Students from Tuition Increases
Next month I’ll be appearing on a panel at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. The subject of the panel: how to get good press for your law school. One obvious answer: do good things for your students. Just like the University of Maryland School of Law. Our coverage of UMB […] -
Environment / Environmental Law, Law Schools
Maryland State and Perdue v. Maryland Law and Reason: An Uneasy Compromise
Over the past few weeks we’ve lightly touched on the fight between Maryland State Legislators and Maryland Law School. To bring you up to speed: the Perdue Chicken corporation was annoyed by a lawsuit filed with the aid of Maryland’s Environmental Law Clinic. So, like all good corporations, the bigwigs at Perdue reached into their […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 03.30.10
* Could dirty chickens take money away from legal Terrapins? [Food Safety News and Maryland Reporter] * The Ninth Circuit finds that Seattle police officers were justified in Tasering a seven-month-pregnant woman three times when she refused to get out of her car and sign a speeding ticket. Dissenting judge Marsha Berzon thinks justice was […]