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Connecticut Law Tribune

Number of LSAT Test-Takers Surges. Is It a Trump Bump?

The hoped-for law school “Trump Bump” might actually have legs.The number of people who took the Law School Admission Test in June climbed nearly 20 percent over last year—the largest percentage increase for any individual LSAT administration since September 2009. (Legal education observers will remember that the 2010-11 academic year was the high-water mark for national law school enrollment before a steady, six-year decline.)
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National Law Journal

Number of LSAT Test-Takers Surges. Is It a Trump Bump?

The hoped-for law school "Trump Bump" might actually have legs. The number of people who took the LSAT in June climbed nearly 20 percent over last year—the largest percentage increase for any individual LSAT administration since September 2009.
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Daily Report Online

DeKalb Schools Reach $160K Settlement With 150 Teachers Over Contract Fees

The DeKalb County School District has agreed to pay more than $160,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the district illegally withheld $750 apiece from 150 teachers' final paychecks when they resigned at the end of the 2013 school year.
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Texas Lawyer

Law Dean Who Helped Texas School Shine Takes on 'Innovation' Role

A&M's Andrew Morriss will lead the university's new School of Innovation starting Aug. 1.
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The American Lawyer

Sexual Harassment Is Thriving in Big Law

Thanks to law professors Joanna Grossman at Southern Methodist University and Deborah Rhode at Stanford University, we now have a primer on sexual harassment on the job.
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Daily Report Online

Law School Argues Students Actions Were Obnoxious but Not Harassing

Appalachian School of Law has fired back at a former visiting professor suing the school, arguing in a bid to dismiss that a student who the professor claims was sexually harassing her was simply “obnoxious.”
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The Recorder

United States ex rel. Cain v. Salish Kootenai College, Inc.

9th Cir.; 15-350 The court of appeals reversed a judgment and remanded. The court held that if a tribal college were determined to be an arm of a tribe,…
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New Jersey Law Journal

Challengers Fall in Fight Over Princeton Battlefield Housing

A plan to build faculty housing for New Jersey's Institute for Advanced Study near where General George Washington camped with the Continental Army can advance, thanks to a New Jersey appeals court's ruling.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Are There Too Many Law Schools?

Have you heard of Charlotte School of Law, or of Whittier Law School? Well, you may not hear of them for much longer. Both were scheduled to close this year, though in both cases there were campaigns by faculty and alumni to keep them open.
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Daily Report Online

University Off the Hook for Drowned Student

The parents of an American student who died on a study abroad program cannot sue the Brookhaven university, the Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled.
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