Karen Sloan

December 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

On the Internet and in academic �circles, debate is flaring over the value of a J.D., and whether it is a wise investment for many of the thousands who flock to law schools each year.

By Karen Sloan

12 minute read

December 08, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Broach the subject of health care costs with John Langan, and he will sum up the issue quite succinctly.

By Karen Sloan

7 minute read

July 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

Online auction giant eBay Inc. was hit with a $3.8 billion patent infringement lawsuit on Tuesday. XPRT Ventures LLC, which holds patents covering e-commerce payments and methods, alleges infringement of six patents covering e-commerce payment systems.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

August 25, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Hartford has prominence as the state capital and the home UConn Law School and some of the most significant law firms in the state.

By Karen Sloan and Douglas S. Malan

7 minute read

November 08, 2010 | Law.com

The National Association for Law Placement's latest diversity statistics show that law firm diversity took a hit in 2010 after a long period of steady, if small, gains.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

October 11, 2010 | Law.com

Pace Law School's part-time evening program has been around since 1976, but it's getting phased out due to the economy. This year's fall class will be the last to complete their law degrees in four years of night classes. Hofstra University School of Law cut its part-time evening program in 2009.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

October 19, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Pleas for more transparency about the cost of law school and the odds of finding a job after graduation have not fallen on deaf ears at the American Bar Association.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

January 28, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

November 03, 2009 | Law.com

It's the kind of story that tends to get big play on the blog Above the Law: A prominent University of Miami School of Law professor and civil rights advocate arrested on suspicion of soliciting an undercover officer for sex. The blog had plenty of fun with the story in October 2007 with a series of posts about Donald Marvin Jones, whom it dubbed "The Nutty Professor." The only problem, according to a lawsuit Jones has filed in federal court, was that it didn't happen that way, and the blog's coverage veered into racism.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

March 18, 2010 | Law.com

Michigan's Thomas M. Cooley Law School dodged one legal bullet this week but got hit with another. Cooley was on the losing end of one case, in which a federal judge declined to dismiss a suit alleging that a former associate dean was fired in retaliation for opposing faculty nepotism involving a Michigan state judge. In the other, a federal appeals court shot down a suit alleging that Cooley failed to accommodate a student's learning disability and ultimately expelled her -- unlawfully -- for poor grades.

By Tresa Baldas and Karen Sloan

5 minute read