Karen Sloan

Karen Sloan is the Legal Education Editor and Senior Writer at ALM. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ Sign up for Ahead of the Curve—her weekly email update on trends and innovation in legal education—here: https://www.law.com/briefings/ahead-of-the-curve/

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October 21, 2010 | New York Law Journal

ABA Mulls Requiring Schools to Share Cost, Employment Data With Applicants

By Karen Sloan | The National Law Journal

5 minute read

August 26, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Cooley dean Don DeLuc on lawsuits, Tampa-area expansion

The Thomas M. Cooley Law School is in the spotlight for suing a law firm for defamation and announcing plans to open a campus in the Tampa Bay area.

By Karen Sloan

6 minute read

January 21, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recruiting Reform Plan Draws a Mixed Reception

August was an exhausting blur of hotel rooms and late-night flights for Thomas Leatherbury.

By Karen Sloan

10 minute read

July 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Proposed Tenure Shift Upsets Faculty

By Karen Sloan | The National Law Journal

5 minute read

May 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

Chemical association escalates attack on Tulane over law clinic

Louisiana lawmakers have yet to debate legislation that would rein in law clinics around the state, but an industry group backing the legislation isn't waiting to play hardball.

By Karen Sloan

6 minute read

May 18, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Way Smoothed for Disability Claims

The past month has been a whirlwind for labor and employment lawyer Thomas Bright, a shareholder at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart.

By Karen Sloan

8 minute read

May 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

For High Court, Harvard or Yale Degree Is a Virtual Prerequisite

Want a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court? An elite law degree will help.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

November 04, 2009 | The Recorder

Miami Law Professor Sues ATL

Donald Jones claims that Above the Law's coverage of his arrest turned into a "viciously racist series of rants" against the African-American professor.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

March 31, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Job Discrimination Hits Low-Income Women Hardest, Study Shows

Discrimination lawsuits brought by working professionals tend to draw public attention, but it's low-wage workers who suffer the harshest consequences in those circumstances, according to a report by the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

March 01, 2010 | Law.com

Firms Breathe Sigh of Relief Over NALP Change on Recruiting

In the end, a proposal to adopt a January kickoff date for law firm summer associate offers proved too controversial. The board of the National Association for Law Placement decided Friday to back off a plan that would delay the summer associate offer process by as long as four months. Law firm recruiters and law school administrators on Friday largely welcomed the shift. Said one: "To make any kind of significant change, everybody needs to be on board or the changes won't be followed."

By Karen Sloan and Nate Raymond

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