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• Widener law professor faces renewed charges over classroom conduct
• 'Soft bounce' in entry level associate hiring, NALP reports
• Berkshire Hathaway's Munger gifts $20M to Michigan Law
• U.S. News law school rankings are out, with revamped tiers
• Panel recommends against dismissal of Widener professor — for now
• Cuts at UNLV could render law school a 'mediocre institution'
• Law school transparency: cutting-edge issue or passing fad?
• Yale launches professional ethics clinic
• Faculty mobilize against ABA's proposal to drop tenure requirement
• Empiricism divides the academy
• Indiana technical college considers opening law school
• Chapman hires former congressman as its new dean
• UC Berkeley launches Institute for Jewish and Israeli law
• Three law schools freeze tuition rates
• Ave Maria to Transparency Project: Never mind
• Willamette's dean steps down after 12 years

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Widener law professor faces renewed charges over classroom conduct	Top
A faculty panel's recommendation to dismiss charges that Widener University School of Law professor Lawrence Connell made racist and sexist comments in class has not ended the wrangling over his position at the school.
'Soft bounce' in entry level associate hiring, NALP reports	Top
New figures show that offer rates to summer associates rose from the historic low of 69% in 2009 to 87% in 2010. That 18% increase puts offer rates back in the ballpark of the 90% offer rates of 2008, which was the last summer program season before the financial crisis hit in earnest.
Berkshire Hathaway's Munger gifts $20M to Michigan Law	Top
Berkshire Hathaway Vice-Chairman Charlie Munger — who attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate before graduating from Harvard Law School and founding the Los Angeles law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson — is giving Michigan Law $20 million.
U.S. News law school rankings are out, with revamped tiers	Top
There was no movement among the top six schools in the latest law school rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The real attention-getter on this year's list will likely be the extension of numerical rankings beyond the top 100 and elimination of the old alphabetically listed third and fourth tiers.
Panel recommends against dismissal of Widener professor — for now	Top
A faculty panel at Widener University School of Law has recommended that the school drop its efforts to dismiss associate professor Lawrence Connell, who came under fire for allegedly using violent scenarios involving the murder of law dean Linda Ammons while teaching his criminal law course.
Cuts at UNLV could render law school a 'mediocre institution'	Top
Public law schools are no strangers to funding cuts, but few have found themselves in the dire situation now facing the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University President Neal Smatresk has proposed a budget cut of $2.26 million for the law school as part of $32.6 million in cuts for the university.
Law school transparency: cutting-edge issue or passing fad?	Top
In the beginning of the economic crisis, large firms took their licks due to layoffs and bloated first-year salaries. Now it appears to be the law schools' turn to suffer the fallout from the economic crisis.
Yale launches professional ethics clinic	Top
Yale Law School has started what may be the first law clinic devoted specifically to professional ethics.
Faculty mobilize against ABA's proposal to drop tenure requirement	Top
Law faculties are starting to weigh in on proposed changes to the American Bar Association's accreditation standards pertaining to tenure and other job protections.
Empiricism divides the academy	Top
Law and statistics might seem like strange bedfellows, but more legal scholars appear to be embracing the data-driven approach to research that has long been the norm in political science, economics and the social sciences.
Indiana technical college considers opening law school	Top
The Board of Trustees of the Indiana Institute of Technology on Feb. 25 authorized a study of the feasibility of adding a law school at its Fort Wayne, Ind., campus.
Chapman hires former congressman as its new dean	Top
Chapman University School of Law has tapped Tom Campbell — a lawyer with a Ph.D. in economics who has been a law professor, a business school dean, a U.S. congressman, a bureaucrat in the Federal Trade Commission, a state finance director and a would-be senator — as its next dean.
UC Berkeley launches Institute for Jewish and Israeli law	Top
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has launched an institute devoted to Jewish and Israeli studies.
Three law schools freeze tuition rates	Top
Annual law school tuition increases of between 3% and 10% are usually a given, but at least three schools have announced tuition freezes for the coming academic year.
Ave Maria to Transparency Project: Never mind	Top
It seems like it's one step forward and two steps back for Law School Transparency, the Tennessee nonprofit pushing law schools to make more-detailed employment data available to prospective students.
Willamette's dean steps down after 12 years	Top
After 12 years in the top administrative post at Willamette University College of Law, Dean Symeon Symeonides will step down at the end of the academic year.

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