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• Women making 'remarkable' gains in law school deanships
• For spurned schools, law student transfers prove costly
• What about an Immig-Corps?
• Increased scrutiny for LL.M.s
• Exit interview: 10th Circuit's Tacha on pay, political labels, Pepperdine
• New deans appointed at Wisconsin, Arkansas
• Boxer has more questions for ABA about law school transparency
• Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement
• THE CAREERIST: Fewer women at top schools
• Stanford Law's new building intended to encourage interaction
• U.C. Hastings honors lost class of Japanese-American students
• Indiana Tech launching law school
• Keeping hope alive in an uncertain spring
• Sports law expert to lead new center at Thomas Jefferson
• La Verne on the brink of losing ABA provisional accreditation
• Delaware delays plans to launch law school — and it's not alone

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Women making 'remarkable' gains in law school deanships	Top
Women made a strong showing in recent law school dean searches, accounting for about 40% of the deans named in recent months. The most recent example was at Texas Tech University School of Law, which announced on Thursday that Darby Dickerson would assume its deanship on July 29.
For spurned schools, law student transfers prove costly	Top
The law school transfer system benefits individual law students, but it's hardly a boon for the less-prestigious schools that invest in promising students only to see them leave following their first year.
What about an Immig-Corps?	Top
We need a structured program for recent law graduates to provide legal services to poor, unrepresented immigrants.
Increased scrutiny for LL.M.s	Top
Sitting for the bar exam may soon be trickier for the thousands of foreign-trained attorneys who take the test each year.
Exit interview: 10th Circuit's Tacha on pay, political labels, Pepperdine	Top
Before leaving the bench on May 31, Judge Deanell Tacha agreed to share some parting thoughts about the judiciary, the U.S. Supreme Court, the news media and her new job at Pepperdine.
New deans appointed at Wisconsin, Arkansas	Top
The University of Wisconsin Law School has named Margaret Raymond, a longtime professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, as its next dean. The University of Arkansas School of Law has announced its new dean will be University of Kansas School of Law's Stacy Leeds.
Boxer has more questions for ABA about law school transparency	Top
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer is apparently unconvinced that the American Bar Association is pushing hard enough for transparency about potential law students' job prospects. She's asked the organization to widen the scope of pending reforms to the way law schools report job placement and salary data.
Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement	Top
A coalition of 55 student bar association presidents wrote on Thursday to a number of U.S. senators proposing legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collect graduate job information statistics directly from law schools.
THE CAREERIST: Fewer women at top schools	Top
Have we been complacent about the supply line of women in the legal profession? Didn't we all assume that women make up around 50% of the students in the nation's law schools — particularly in the top schools? That's just not true.
Stanford Law's new building intended to encourage interaction	Top
The Stanford law faculty is moving on up — to a new, $62 million state-of-the-art building named for 1967 graduate William Neukom.
U.C. Hastings honors lost class of Japanese-American students	Top
Commencement ceremonies tend to focus on the future, but the May 15 graduation ceremony at the University of California Hastings College of the Law included a solemn nod to the past.
Indiana Tech launching law school	Top
While several universities have backed off plans to add law schools, the Indiana Institute of Technology is bucking the trend. Trustees of the school, known as Indiana Tech, announced Monday that they had unanimously voted to establish a new law school at the Fort Wayne, Ind., campus.
Keeping hope alive in an uncertain spring	Top
The economy in general is showing some signs of life but events around the world make the economic future a bit uncertain. Given this context of uncertainty, how do we best help our students find jobs? How do we best encourage more employers of all types to hire them?
Sports law expert to lead new center at Thomas Jefferson	Top
Thomas Jefferson School of Law has selected Rodney Smith, president of Southern Virginia University, to become director of its Center for Sports Law and Policy, which is scheduled to open in the fall.
La Verne on the brink of losing ABA provisional accreditation	Top
The ABA's accreditation committee told La Verne administrators last week that it will recommend against full accreditation when the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar meets next month in Salt Lake City.
Delaware delays plans to launch law school — and it's not alone	Top
Six months after launching a feasibility study into forming a new law school, the University of Delaware is hitting the brakes. The university will delay plans to start the first public law school in the state in the fall of 2015.

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