Karen Sloan

December 14, 2009 | Law.com

On the Internet and in academic circles, debate is flaring over the value of a juris doctor, and whether the degree is a wise investment for many of the thousands who flock to law schools each year. Law schools have always had detractors, but the rising cost of legal education and the dearth of jobs available to new graduates is prompting more people to urge prospective law students to think twice before they write their first tuition check.

By Karen Sloan

12 minute read

March 18, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A faculty panel's recommendation to dismiss charges that Widener University School of Law professor Lawrence Connell made racist and sexist comments in class has not ended the wrangling over his position at the school.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

December 03, 2009 | Law.com

A dozen major corporations are involved in an initiative to boost the number of women and minorities in top law firm positions by adding part-time and flexible working schedules to the list of things they require of outside counsel. Participants hope that the initiative, spearheaded by the Project for Attorney Retention and dubbed the Diversity & Flexibility Connection, will help stem the tide of women and minorities leaving law firms and lead to more of them being promoted to partnership.

By Karen Sloan

14 minute read

September 14, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

February 28, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Chapman University School of Law has tapped Tom Campbell -- a lawyer with a Ph.D. in economics who has been a law professor, a business school dean, a U.S. congressman, a bureaucrat in the Federal Trade Commission, a state finance director and a would-be senator -- as its next dean.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

May 25, 2010 | Law.com

The Society of American Law Teachers wants LSAT scores dropped from U.S. News & World Report's ranking formula, and it hopes deans and law schools will be the ones to pull the plug. The organization is urging law schools to stop providing the magazine with their incoming students' LSAT scores on the theory that the immense pressure to snag incoming students with high scores is making it harder to admit diverse classes. And SALT is not the only group that has criticized the reliance on test scores.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

December 01, 2008 | The American Lawyer

With lower overhead costs, little debt, and more flexibility with fees, smaller firms with specialty practice areas have some distinct advantages over their larger competitors when it comes to weathering the economic storm.

By Karen Sloan / Staff reporter

7 minute read

December 21, 2010 | Law.com

Three years of work by students in Yale Law School's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic paid off in a big way last week, when a federal judge ruled that officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be sued for civil rights violations.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

July 31, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Previously confidential reports from the American Bar Association on conditions at immigrant detention centers across the United States were analyzed as part of a scathing new study faulting the government for failing to meet its own standards at those facilities.

By KAREN SLOAN

5 minute read

November 11, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

The American Bar Association is using President Obama's visit to India to push for lawyer reciprocity with that country.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read