By Christine Charnosky | June 15, 2022
Michael T. Cahill, Brooklyn Law School president and Joseph Crea dean, will be stepping down from his administrative roles and rejoining the school's faculty in the fall of 2023.
By Christine Charnosky | June 10, 2022
iHeartRadio and Sound Argument LLC launched a new documentary podcast titled "Class Action" with an episode featuring the two students.
By Christine Charnosky | May 24, 2022
"With the law school moving in a positive direction on all fronts, I believe now is the time to begin a transition to new leadership," Alicia Ouellette, president and dean of Albany Law School, said in a letter to the law school community.
By Jane Wester | May 23, 2022
Swain, the second woman of color to serve as chief judge in the Southern District of New York, was a law clerk for the first to serve in the post, Judge Constance Baker Motley. She credited another mentor—her law school professor Derrick Bell—with the opportunity for that clerkship.
By Christine Charnosky | May 20, 2022
"We've all taken the LSAT, so this feels personal," said Mary Lu Bilek, a member of the council of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions, during its hybrid meeting in Chicago on Friday. "A reaction to a change is based on our own experience."
By Jane Wester | May 19, 2022
In-person teaching was "promised and expected by the parties," said a lawyer for a student seeking a tuition refund.
By Christine Charnosky | May 18, 2022
When Syracuse University College of Law started its first-of-its-kind J.D. interactive (JDi) program in 2019, no one realized just how prescient it would prove to be. On May 6, 45 JDi students graduated alongside 154 of their peers from the school's residential J.D. program.
By Christine Charnosky | May 10, 2022
While the move would be welcomed by many who believe it could, in theory, make law school more accessible to diverse applicants, its practical effect could prove muted. Still, advocates see it as a potential step in the right direction.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Brian Lee | May 6, 2022
Since Judge Shirley Troutman began participating in decisions in February, the court has been divided on several cases of note, highlighted by its recent split decision to invalidate New York's congressional and Senate maps as an unconstitutional gerrymander by state Democrats.
By Christine Charnosky | May 6, 2022
In a memorandum dated April 25, the Strategic Review Committee of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar recommended that the requirement of a "'valid and reliable'" admissions test be eliminated from Standard 503, "thereby making the use of an admission test by law schools optional."
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