By Katelyn Polantz | February 18, 2015
News about the law in schools and the law school business model, plus Hillary Clinton cleared by the FEC: This is a round-up of legal news from ALM and around the country.
By Karen Sloan | February 17, 2015
The next dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School will be a familiar face. Long-time faculty member Theodore Ruger will assume the post on July 1, university leaders announced on Tuesday.
By Karen Sloan | February 17, 2015
Women associates expanded their presence at law firms during 2014—the first percentage growth among that demographic group in four years, according to data released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
By Tony Mauro | February 16, 2015
"I was thinking that you don't ask questions," former U.S. senator John Danforth said to Justice Clarence Thomas recently. The audience at Yale Law School erupted in laughter. Thomas did not join in. "A slight edit, Jack," Thomas replied. "I don't ask irrelevant, useless questions."
By Karen Sloan | February 13, 2015
The percentage of African-American and Hispanic students enrolled in law school increased between 2010 and 2013, but those gains came almost exclusively at less prestigious law schools with lower admission standards, according to new research.
By Karen Sloan | February 13, 2015
Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law announced Friday that they would merge, in what appears a survival bid for two St. Paul institutions that have seen sharp enrollment declines.
By Julie Kay | February 13, 2015
FIU law students took second place at the 2015 American Bar Association's National Negotiations Final, vying against 110 law schools from around the globe.
By Karen Sloan | February 13, 2015
A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an attorney who claimed the American Bar Association's failure to collect and disseminate data about law students with disabilities violates the Americans With Disabilities Act.
By Joel Stashenko | February 13, 2015
A law student's involvement with drugs seemed to concern state Court of Appeals judges less than St. John's University's decision to rescind his admission to law school.
By Zoe Tillman | February 13, 2015
A round up of news from ALM affiliated publications and around the web: judge orders Alabama official to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the cost of fighting crime and, for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in vino veritas.
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