USC Law Dean Steps Down. The First ATL 50 Casualty?
USC is nicer to its law deans than its football coaches.
Law Dean Complains That School Is Too Poor To Pay For Caps And Gowns
Law school tries to nickle and dime students, right until the end.
Open Thread: 2014 U.S. News Law School Rankings (15 – 31)
Do you have something to say about your law school's U.S. News ranking? This is the place to do it!
California Bar Passage Rate Holds Steady; Shame For Underperforming Schools Deepens
California has released some macro-level results from the July 2011 administration of the bar exam. The California bar is notoriously difficult, and every year we like to take a look at which schools prepared their students well for the exam, and which schools did not. You might be surprised at which California law school had the best passage rate on the California bar. Hint: it's not Stanford, or Boalt Hall, or UCLA....
USC Law’s Snitch Patrol: Episode Two
Last week, we covered the apparent epidemic of snitching happening at USC Gould School of Law. A person who sympathized with the snitch wrote a sarcastic email making fun of those who were outraged by the tattletale. And he was just warming up. Read on for updates, amusement, and enlightenment....
Student Rats Out Professor, Then Flips Off Rest of Class
Some people will say that today's stupid law student email of the day comes from a rat. A snitch. A person who betrayed the trust of his fellow classmates. Others will say it comes from a whistleblower. A person of conscience. A student who saw a wrong being committed and decided to speak up. Either way, it comes from a person who needed to take a break, a nap, a siesta, before rattling off an email to his entire class....
5 Tips For Proving Your Legal Department’s Value
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Morning Docket: 11.18.11
* John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez. Sorry, Oscar, you have three names, but you didn’t actually kill the president, so you don’t get to join the club. [New York Times] * Former SCOTUS clerk Roy McLeese III has been nominated for a seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals. I don’t have […]