Law School Closures

I get the feeling the school shouldn't budget around alumni donations in the years to come.

So much for finishing strong.

Finish strong.

Law school layoffs may be coming.

A sad ending for a law school that thought it would survive the pandemic.

The law school is on a quest to remain in operation.

This is so depressing. Please donate to help law students in need.

The sad story of Western State serves as a warning to potential law students.

Meanwhile, students are suffering without access to student loan funds.

Administrators couldn't even give this law school away as a gift.

* Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he plans to introduce legislation to end our “absurd policy of birthright citizenship.” Good luck with that, Senator, because if you want to amend the Constitution, you’ll need a two-thirds majority in Congress and ratification of three-quarters of the states. [The Hill]

* Women are allegedly being paid to make false sexual assault and harassment claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and now the FBI is investigating the situation. The going rate for these made-up stories is apparently $20,000. [The Atlantic]

* After having its plan to gift a troubled law school to Middle Tennessee State University be flat-out rejected, Valparaiso Law has decided to call it quits. We’ll have more on this totally unpredictable development later today. [ABA Journal]

* If you’re in law school and your girlfriend breaks up with you, you should probably stop calling her — unless, of course, you don’t mind a harassment conviction and spending a year in jail. Now this fellow is trying to overcome his character and fitness obstacles to become a member of the bar. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

* In case you missed it, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School just unleashed about 6.5 million digitized court decisions online, for free, as part of the Caselaw Access Project. No, that’s not a typo — everything is free. [Fortune]

* How did graduates of the Charleston School of Law do on the South Carolina bar exam this past summer? Not too well. For the second year in a row, more than half of them failed the test. On the “bright side,” 59 percent of first-time takers from the school passed, up 11 percentage points from last year. [Post and Courier]

Adios, Arizona Summit.

Savannah Law School is survived by all of us who care when schools that shouldn’t close are forced to while schools that ought to close continue. 

This will be the first law school to close in 2018. How many will follow?

Will more law schools close in Valparaiso’s wake?

Another law school (officially) bites the dust.

The school has offered a confusing statement to students on its imminent closure.

This could sound the death knell for the embattled school.

Closing schools doesn’t solve the problem.

Was the closing of the law school a "mercy killing"?