By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum | March 16, 2018
This week's Legal Speak podcast with Law.com editors Vanessa Blum and Leigh Jones takes a close look at our ranking of the law schools that send the most graduates into first-year Big Law associate jobs.
By Marcia Coyle | March 14, 2018
A legal writing professor's examination of U.S. Supreme Court decisions shows the justices usually achieve unanimity on most matters of style. But on three points—conjunctions, possessives and fragments—the justices divide.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Karen Sloan | March 14, 2018
Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger said professor Amy Wax violated the school's confidentiality policy around grades and that black law students assigned to her required first-year courses would face undue pressures.
By Karen Sloan | March 12, 2018
The U.S. Department of Education has extended the so-called closed-school discharge period, allowing more former Charlotte School of Law students to apply to wipe out their federal loans.
By Karen Sloan | March 8, 2018
In partnership with the United Nations, law librarians at Cornell and Yale are getting law journals, e-books and other legal content to people in low- and medium-income countries for free.
By Karen Sloan | March 6, 2018
Requests for accommodations on the Law School Admission Test have skyrocketed since the government required the exam's administrator to ease the process of gaining them, but a federal judge has ruled that the Law School Admission Council is still falling short when it comes to accommodating disabled test takers.
By Karen Sloan | March 6, 2018
Law professors sue for a variety of reasons, often pertaining to hiring, firing and tenure denial. Unfortunately for them, they rarely prevail in court.
By Tony Mauro | March 2, 2018
The new plan mirrors a policy that collapsed in 2013 when fiercely competitive individual judges ignored the rules.
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Vivia Chen | February 22, 2018
Why is law school popular again? One theory is the Trump effect, which is that people are so morally and politically outraged by the direction of the country that they want to go to law school to set things right.
By Karen Sloan | February 20, 2018
The first major movie to center on a black super hero has resonated with students at Howard University School of Law, where students, faculty and alumni enjoyed a private screening last week.
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