Editor’s note: Texas Lawyer turned 25 on April 3. To mark our anniversary, each week the editorial department is looking back at the news we covered over the past 25 years and selecting one story to update for readers. This week, senior reporter Mary Alice Robbins writes about an article that ran on the cover of the April 24, 2006, issue of Texas Lawyer: “Rankings Rift Hastens UH Law Dean’s Resignation.”
At an April 7, 2006, faculty meeting, students upset over the University of Houston Law Center’s continued fall in U.S. News & World Report ‘s annual law school rankings confronted then-Dean Nancy Rapoport.
