Karen Sloan

February 03, 2016 |

More than a third of practicing attorneys in the United States are problem drinkers and 28 percent struggle with depression, according to a new study conducted by the American Bar Association and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

February 02, 2016 |

Human Rights Watch is teaming up with two New York law schools to develop new techniques for investigating human rights issues.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

February 01, 2016 |

A week after announcing a $25 million donation and name change, Villanova University's law school is losing its dean. John Gotanda, who has led the newly renamed Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law since 2011, was appointed Monday as the next president of Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu. He will take over on June 1.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

January 28, 2016 |

The next dean of the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law has one foot in the legal academy and the other in the world of professional sports. University officials have tapped Matthew Parlow, an associate dean at Marquette University Law School, to replace outgoing law dean Tom Campbell.

By Karen Sloan

2 minute read

January 28, 2016 |

An impressive 95 percent of law students who spent last summer clerking at a law firm received an offer to work full-time at the firm after graduation.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

January 27, 2016 |

It's not high-level lawyering, but it's a job. Suffolk University Law School has partnered with legal process outsourcing firm Integreon Inc. to launch a new program in which law and undergraduate students work part-time on document review and other tasks while on the school's Boston campus.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

January 26, 2016 |

Brigham Young University has been hit with a complaint claiming that the law school's expulsion of ex-Mormons violates the American Bar Association's nondiscrimination rules. A group of university alumni called FreeBYU filed the complaint with the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar against Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

January 25, 2016 |

Like all other law schools in Washington and Baltimore, Georgetown University Law Center remained closed on Monday as city workers scrambled to clear roads and restore public transportation in the aftermath of the year's first blizzard. But the snow day wasn't a ticket out of class for all Georgetown law students. About 25 percent of the law school's approximately 100 scheduled classes met Monday with faculty and students connecting online rather than in the classroom.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

January 25, 2016 |

The University of Georgia School of Law has received $2 million to establish the Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Law Fellows program that will provide full tuition and professional-development opportunities to a small number of exceptional students.

By Karen Sloan

2 minute read

January 25, 2016 |

New York's novel pro bono program opens to out-of-state third-year law students.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read