Karen Sloan

March 06, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

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May 03, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Law schools may have to become more candid about how well their scholarship students survive in legal academia.

By Karen Sloan

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April 30, 2010 | Law.com

A New Orleans federal district judge has awarded $164,000 in damages to a family whose home was deemed uninhabitable because of defective Chinese drywall. The case comes on the heels of a $2.6 million award to seven Virginia homeowners earlier this month. Both cases are part of a a sprawling multidistrict litigation involving Chinese drywall, with more than 2,000 homeowners claiming that the product released toxic fumes that corroded wiring and pipes and caused health problems.

By Karen Sloan

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November 12, 2009 | Daily Business Review

The American Bar Association is lobbying the Obama administration and Congress to extend relief to recent law school graduates who went into debt to finance their legal educations but haven't been able to find a job because of the recession.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

December 03, 2009 | Law.com

Public interest graduates from several high-profile law schools won't have to pay anything toward their student loans under recently revamped loan repayment assistance programs. The University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center have announced improved forgiveness programs that will cover all law school loan debt for many of their graduates who go on to work in public interest law for at least 10 years, making their legal education essentially free.

By Karen Sloan

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August 24, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Florida's Stetson University College of Law is teaming up with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to launch a series of "boot camp" programs for lawyers called the White Collar Criminal Defense College.

By Karen Sloan

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June 20, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

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May 03, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Baker & McKenzie tops the NLJ 250, the National Law Journal's list of the largest 250 U.S.-based firms by attorney head count.

By Karen Sloan

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April 22, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

What is the total cost of a law review article written by a tenured professor at a top-flight law school?

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

August 02, 2010 | Law.com

Two law professors who researched the salience of legal research have concluded that, contrary to conventional wisdom, judges increasingly are citing law review articles in their opinions. Analyzing more than 296,000 reported federal circuit opinions filed between 1950 and 2008, David Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge found increased citation to law review articles during the past 20 years. Widespread acceptance of the idea that legal scholarship is irrelevant inspired their empirical look at the data, Schwartz said.

By Karen Sloan

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