Y! Alert: NLJ.com: Law Schools

Yahoo! Alerts
My Alerts

The latest from NLJ.com: Law Schools

• Following dean's resignation, Baltimore relents on law school money
• Council bends on auditing law schools' reports about student test scores
• Chicago aims to protect its supremacy in law-and-economics movement
• Boxer increases pressure on ABA over law school jobs reporting
• Another 15 law schools targeted over jobs data
• LSAC settles test taker's ADA complaint
• Alberto Gonzales joins faculty of Belmont Law
• Millions of legal voters face barriers, Brennan Center warns
• With tech's help, a dose of reality
• Institute revokes offer to locate con law center at N.C. school after faculty, alums object to donor
• Kirkland & Ellis pledges $2.75 million to Stanford Law School
• Illinois Law acknowledges pattern of reporting inaccurate data
• Study of refugees from failed law firms concludes that networking works
• ABA stalls on honing law schools' jobs placements reports
• A law school sprouts in California's desert
• ABA should make law schools provide better job statistics now

---

Following dean's resignation, Baltimore relents on law school money	Top
A little more than two months after the dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law resigned, complaining that the university was dipping too deeply into revenues generated by the law school, the university has agreed to give some money back.
Council bends on auditing law schools' reports about student test scores	Top
The Law School Admission Council may begin policing the Law School Admission Test scores and grade-point averages that law schools report annually to the American Bar Association. The move follows scandals in which law schools inflated the academic credentials of new students.
Chicago aims to protect its supremacy in law-and-economics movement	Top
The University of Chicago School of Law gave birth to the law-and-economics movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Now the school is reasserting its commitment to the study of the law through the lens of economics with an initiative it has dubbed Law and Economics 2.0.
Boxer increases pressure on ABA over law school jobs reporting	Top
In an Oct. 6 letter to ABA President William Robinson III, Sen. Barbara Boxer chided the organization for recent changes to its annual law school questionnaire and expressed concern over the lack of independent oversight of the jobs statistics reported by law schools.
Another 15 law schools targeted over jobs data	Top
The attorneys behind class actions against New York Law School and Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced plans on Oct. 5 to sue 15 additional law schools for publishing what they described as misleading post-employment job statistics.
LSAC settles test taker's ADA complaint	Top
The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced a settlement under which the council will give a 22-year-old University of Minnesota graduate with ADD and a learning disability several testing accommodations that it had twice denied.
Alberto Gonzales joins faculty of Belmont Law	Top
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is set to begin teaching full-time at the school in January as the Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law at the Nashville, Tenn., law school.
Millions of legal voters face barriers, Brennan Center warns	Top
A wave of election laws will make it more difficult for 5 million qualified voters to cast ballots in 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
With tech's help, a dose of reality	Top
Advocates of simulation-based courses, in which law students act as lawyers to solve either a series of legal problems or one extended problem over the course of a semester, say they are a good way for law schools to beef up practical skills training.
Institute revokes offer to locate con law center at N.C. school after faculty, alums object to donor	Top
Politics have derailed a proposed state constitutional law research center at North Carolina Central University School of Law.
Kirkland & Ellis pledges $2.75 million to Stanford Law School	Top
Kirkland & Ellis has pledged $2.75 million to Stanford Law School over the next five years to fund expanded clinical programs, new student awards and a series of panels and symposia on the legal profession, the school announced Thursday.
Illinois Law acknowledges pattern of reporting inaccurate data	Top
The University of Illinois announced Wednesday that its law school reported inaccurate data to the American Bar Association on the academic credentials of its incoming students for the past three years, in addition to publishing inflated figures on its Web site this fall.
Study of refugees from failed law firms concludes that networking works	Top
Six major law firms closed their doors in 2008 and 2009, forcing more than 1,400 attorneys into the job market during tough financial times. According to a study, the vast majority of those attorneys have since landed new jobs.
ABA stalls on honing law schools' jobs placements reports	Top
Law schools will not have to report to the American Bar Association the percentage of their 2010 graduates who landed jobs requiring bar passage or the percentage of graduates in part-time jobs.
A law school sprouts in California's desert	Top
The California Desert Trial Academy College of Law will focus on preparing students for trial advocacy and fill a need for a local law school, said criminal defense attorney John Patrick Dolan, president and chief executive officer of the venture.
ABA should make law schools provide better job statistics now	Top
If the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is truly interested in fulfilling its obligations to the legal profession and as an accrediting agency, it needs to consider whether a do-nothing policy is the appropriate course of action given the events of the past two years.

CREATE MORE ALERTS:

Auctions - Find out when new auctions are posted

Horoscopes - Receive your daily horoscope

Music - Get the newest Album Releases, Playlists and more

News - Only the news you want, delivered!

Stocks - Stay connected to the market with price quotes and more

Weather - Get today's weather conditions

You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.