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Professor withdraws lawsuit against 'Above the Law'
University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones has withdrawn a lawsuit accusing the legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting the professor's arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution.
U.S. Supreme Court database will extend to 1792
A group of law schools will help expand an online U.S. Supreme Court database so that it reaches back to the court's first recorded decision in 1792. The schools received an $874,000 National Science Foundation grant in September to begin the four-year project, which will add 19,675 cases to a database that now extends from the Court's 1953 term through 2008, said Lee Epstein, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
LAW SCHOOLS
Reality's knocking
The movement to incorporate practical skills into legal education isn't new, but legal educators and researchers say that the floundering economy is creating a greater incentive for law schools to revamp their curriculum with an eye to preparing students for the realities of the legal profession.
Law prof sues 'Above the Law' site for 'viciously racist series of rants'
It's the kind of story that tends to get big play on legal blog Above the Law: A prominent law professor and civil rights advocate arrested on suspicion of soliciting an undercover officer for sex. The only problem was that it didn't happen that way, and the blog's coverage veered into racism, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the professor.
Law faculties recruited to anti-smoking squads
Widener University School of Law is one of a growing number of law schools that are getting tough on smoking, and it's counting on the faculty to enforce the crackdown. Professors will be armed with small cards detailing the smoking ban to hand out to offenders, said Linda L. Ammons, the law school's dean.
Second Chicago law school receives biggest gift ever
Chicago personal injury lawyers are loading up the city's lesser known law schools with donations, hoping their contributions will prime the pump for more gifts. Philip Corboy, a founding partner of Corboy & Demetrio, and his wife Mary Dempsey, a lawyer who chairs the board of trustees for DePaul University, this week gave an unspecified seven-figure endowment to her alma mater, DePaul University College of Law.
David Kohler, influential figure in media law, dead at 56
David Kohler, the director of influential Southwestern University School of Law's Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute, died of cancer on Oct. 15.
Professor wants law students to think before they tweet
Drake University Law School professor Melissa Weresh is on a mission to get law students and young attorneys to think twice before they hit send on an e-mail, post a photo to their Facebook pages or update their Twitter accounts. Weresh conducts seminars across the country to get young attorneys and would-be attorneys to be more deliberate in their electronic communications and to think about the ethical problems that can arise from new technology.
Student may challenge his expulsion from Florida A&M's law school
A former student is entitled to make a case that he was unlawfully expelled from Florida A&M University College of Law after being falsely admitted in 2007, an intermediate Florida appeals court has ruled.
Uniform bar examination drawing closer to reality
Next year, at least 10 states are expected to switch to the so-called Uniform Bar Exam, and 22 other jurisdictions are positioned to adopt the test in the next few years. But the test still has big hurdles to overcome.
UCLA launches empirical legal studies program
The University of California at Los Angeles School of Law's Rand Center for Law and Public Policy has established an empirical legal scholarship program and is recruiting students eager to adopt techniques used in economics, sociology and other social sciences to explore legal issues.
Rules: The latest casualty of the economic crisis
Law students today face a market of fuzzy rules, with the leading law blogs telling one story after another of firms deferring start dates or even rescinding offers. Do we simply admit that "anything goes" in the recruiting process?
TestMasters agrees to pay more than $1M to settle dispute over LSAT license
The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the Law School Admissions Test, has settled its copyright infringement and breach-of-contract case against test prep company TestMasters for more than $1 million. TestMasters will also pay the council's attorney fees up to $150,000.
Law prof's mission is to make tax policy interesting
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has received a lot of press for her "Our Courts" Web site, which uses interactive games to teach middle school students about the court system. Now Marjorie Kornhauser, a professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, hopes to use a similar concept to engage young adults in a topic widely regarded as both unpleasant and painfully dull: taxes.
USC will market tax LL.M as recession insurance
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law has announced the launch of a master of laws in taxation degree, beginning in fall 2010. The program will be the first LL.M. that the school has offered to its U.S. students, said Dean Robert Rasmussen.
OPINION
What public access?
The most effective way to teach law students how to conduct legal research is to provide hands-on training, but one of the most important tools, PACER, is off limits.
TestMasters sued for unauthorized use of the LSAT
The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the Law School Admissions Test, is suing test prep company TestMasters for unauthorized use of LSAT test materials. The council also asked the court to ban the company from claiming on its Web site and in promotional materials that it uses authorized LSAT materials.
