Law Schools, Gays, & the Military / Liberty L.S. Plans Opening / Law Firm Attrition Rates - 10/5 / Stetson Prof Accused of Sexual Harassment / Yale Dean: 'Our War, Our Duty' / Penn Profs, Students Sue U.S. Defense Dep't / UCLA Gets $4M for 'Sexual Orientation Law' - 10/2

Emory Official Sues Emory Prof
The Director of Operations at Emory Law School has sued Prof. David Garrow, accusing him of assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, and defamation. The complaint says that Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., dislikes blacks and women. Story - 9/26

Sweating the Bar Results - 9/17 / New Law School Raids USC Faculty / New N.C. Law School? - 9/16 /  NJ Suspends 'Office-in-State' Requirement  /  UConn Plans Tribal Law Center - 9/15 / The Law School of Windows & Gates - 9/12

Calif. Bans Faculty-Student Dating
Story - 7/20 

Hillary Failed the D.C. Bar Exam -  6/29 / ABA Cites Alcohol and Drug Abuse by Law Profs and Law Students - 6/27 /  Email About the Dean of Tulsa College of Law / Michigan Nominates Evan Caminker as Dean / UDC Denied Full ABA Accreditation - 6/24

Florida Law Schools in Trouble?
Florida's law schools are sitting on a competitive timebomb with the opening of two new schools. "[S]everal factors could kill at least one of Florida's 10 law schools in the next few years," quotes Law.com. Story - 5/30
The Florida Winter Bar Exam results have been "temporarily removed for additional review." The pass list is being "modified." - 6/2 Florida Bar Exam 

Colorado Accreditation Jeopardized
The ABA accreditation of the U of Colorado School of Law is in jeopardy for multiple problems. CU is currently ranked 40 by USNews and 36 by the Law School 100. Story - 5/25

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LawSchool.com Offers $5K Reward
LawSchool.com is offering a reward of $5,000 to the first person providing info leading to the indictment and conviction of the individual who has been sabotaging the LawSchool.com website by posting large quantities of racist and otherwise offensive comments. 

S.Ct. Upholds Affirmative Action
Michigan Law School Admissions Approved;
U of Michigan Undergraduate Policy Rejected
5-4, 6-3 Rulings -- Story / SupremeCourt.org  - 6/23

Donald J. Dunn to Head La Verne - 6/8 /  Arizona Pass Rate Drops Again / Yale's Burke Marshall Dies / John Marshall Serves Spam / Kansas Law School May Close / Golden Gate School of Law Sued Over Minority Scholarships  / 74 Japanese Law Schools to Open / Catholic's Kmiec Resigns Deanship / British vs. American Legal Education - 6/2

Calif. Says 'No' to Student-Prof Sex
The U of California's Academic Senate has voted to prohibit professors from having "sexual liaisons with students they oversee or could oversee in the future." Final approval by the state's Board of Regents is expected in July. Story - 5/29 / Update - 5/30

Texas Rejects Non-ABA Law Schools
The Texas Senate has rejected a measure that would have let graduates of unaccredited law schools take the Texas Bar Exam. Story - 5/29 /  Texas Bar Exam Info 

Law Prof Dies in Apparent Suicide
The U of Washington law school community has been stunned by the death of Prof. Joan Fitzpatrick in what officials believe to have been a suicide. Story - 5/25

Concord Says 6 of 10 Passed
Concord, the online law school owned and run by Kaplan, Inc., put out a press release saying that six of its first 10 graduates passed this winter's California bar exam. / Email About Concord - 5/25 / Story - 6/3

The California pass rate for all first-time takers this winter was 50.2%. From California ABA-approved law schools, the pass rate for first-time takers was 57%. From non-California ABA law schools, the pass rate for first-time takers was 49%. The pass rate for all takers, including repeaters (whose pass rate is always much lower), the state pass rate was 37.3%, higher than last year's 33.4%, but equal to the 2001 pass rate. - 5/27 / California Bar Exam Info

Bomb Explodes at Yale L.S.
A bomb exploded at Yale Law School, "sending students scrambling for safety." No one was reported injured. Story - 5/21 / Suspect / Protecting Yale's Image - 5/23 
Law Student Taken Into Custody - 5/25

NY & CA Bar Exam Results
The Feb. 2003 NY and California Bar Exam results are available now. NY Bar Exam / California Bar Exam

Multistate Bar Exam Misgraded
One question on the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Exam was misgraded this winter, and many law school grads who were told they had passed have instead failed. Story - 5/7 /  Mass. Says: 'Disregard' Prior Results - 5/9  /  NJ to 'Recalculate' Results - 5/11 /  Bar Examiners  /  'Dozens' Affected - 5/13 /  Quote: "If we discover some people who were told they passed actually failed, they can retake the bar exam in July at no extra cost."
Some May Practice in California Without Taking Bar Exam - 5/14 / California Bar Exam 
Texas May Let Online Grads Take Texas Bar Exam - 5/14 / Texas Regrades Bar Exam - 5/15

UGA Profs: Clarence Thomas 'Unworthy'
Eleven U of Georgia law profs, along with 50 UGA students, say that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is "unworthy" to be the law school's commencement speaker. Story - 5/8 / Editorial - 5/15 / Commencement - 5/19

Law Briefs: Harvard Wins $10 Million Grant - 5/21 /  Getches Named Colorado Dean / Law.com: Summer Associate Special - 5/15  / 93 Law Profs Back Same-Sex Benefits - 5/14  / NY Law Schools to Receive $1.2 Million / Stetson Dean W. Gary Vause Dies - 5/11 / Bromberger to Head Loyola - New Orleans / AZ Students Face Big Fee Hikes - 5/8 / California Winter 2003 Bar Results  / Law Grad Challenges Michigan Bar Admissions Procedure  / Cincinnati Law School Faces Perceived Decline  - 5/6 / 'I was wait-listed because...' 1 2 3 - 5/1  

CUNY Honors Alleged Terror Abettor
Students at CUNY, the only public law school in New York City and downstate NY, honored an attorney accused of aiding terrorism, despite the dean's objection. NYLawyer - 5/2 / NYTimes - 4/25 /  World Socialist Website / Dean Feared CUNY Could Be Closed - 5/7

NYLS to Offer LL.M. in Tax
Manhattan's New York Law School will offer a Master of Laws degree in taxation, joining NYU as the only two New York City schools offering tax LL.M.'s. Story - 5/8

Law Prof Sues Texas Tech
Prof. Daisy Hurst Floyd has sued Lubbock's Texas Tech, alleging disparagement of women and racial discrimination. Story - 5/2

Law Briefs:  Gonzaga Stunned by Rankings Drop - 4/29 / How to Pass Your Finals - 5/2  / Indian Law at Syracuse - 4/25 / NYU Tells 1L to Take Down Website Linked to 'Cybererotica' - 4/24

Law Briefs:  Law Prof Admits to 'Kiddy Porn'  Newsday  NY Post - 4/16 / Prof Disbarred - 4/17 / New Texas Law School? - 4/15 / Butterworth to Head St. Thomas - 4/24 / Texas Wesleyan 'Not for Sale' / Alumni: USC Is Falling Behind Other Southern Law Schools - 4/15 / The LSULAW.com Lawsuit (from JD2B)

The 'Truth About Class Rank'
Where you went to law school and how well you did are key to your future, as "demystified" by an LA search firm's annual report on the nation's top 50 law schools. Report (PDF) - 4/25

Law Profs to Vote on Dating Ban
University of California law professors are scheduled to vote on whether faculty-student dating and/or sex should be permitted. Story - 4/19

Summer Programs Slashed
Most major New York firms have reduced the number of law students offered positions as summer associates by 20-50%. NYLawyer - 4/21

More Law Briefs: Florida Dean Arrested for DUI / Florida Class on Ebay / Iowa's Hines to Resign Deanship / Another South Carolina Law School? /  ASU Downtown? -4/11 / Deregulate Legal Education? - 4/5 / John Marshall Names New Dean - 3/13

NY Bar Exam Debate Continues
Everyone seems to oppose the proposal by the NY State Board of Law Examiners to increase the score needed to pass the New York Bar Exam. NY Times / NY Bar Exam Info - 4/13

U.S. News Rankings Are Out
Cornell is up, Boalt is down. George Mason climbs, Chapman debuts in third tier. U of Washington slides.
U.S. News Rankings - 4/2 / Error Claimed / Mea Culpa / RankingUSNews.com / Law School 100 / mad tea-party 
US News: 1 Yale, 2 Stanford, 3 Harvard, 4 Columbia, 5 NYU, 6 Chicago, 7 Michigan, 7 Penn, 9 UVA, 10 Cornell, 10 Boalt

Elena Kagan Named Harvard Dean
Elena Kagan, a former aide in the Clinton White House and a Harvard prof since 1999, has been named to head the Cambridge law school. A 1986 HLS grad, she will be the first female dean in the school's 186-year history. Story / Release - 4/3

Rosenblatt to Head Mississippi College
Col. James H. Rosenblatt, a Cornell Law School grad (and classmate of the editor of LawSchool.com) has been named dean of the Mississippi College School of Law, in Jackson, Miss. Story / School  - 4/9

Surprise: Law Profs Are Liberal
"What do you call a Democrat in a tweed jacket?" ask Northwestern Prof. John O. McGinnis and Columbia student Matthew Schwartz in the Wall Street Journal. Answer: A law professor. Article - 4/1

Leiter's Law School Rankings Out
U of Texas law prof Brian Leiter's ranking of US law schools, based on faculty quality in voting by 150 scholars, has been released. EQR / RankingUSNews.com / Law School 100 - 3/26 / Critique (JD2B) / Reply -3/28

Florida Toughens Its Bar Exam 
The passing score on the Florida bar exam will be raised from 131 to 133 on the July 2003 exam and to 136 thereafter. Details - 3/26 / Florida Bar Exam 

Grad's Prostitution Arrest OK
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a graduate of the U of Louisville's law school can become an attorney, despite an arrest on a prostitution charge, which was later dismissed. Story - 3/22

Law Briefs: A 'Leap of Faith' for Ave Maria - 4/4 /  NY Nears Approval on Tuition Relief Program / In re 'Lavender Law' Confab - 4/2 /  PA Students Face Tougher Job Market  /  Harvard May Expand - 3/31 / Two Universities Weigh New No. Carolina Law School - 3/30

Law Briefs:  Bellacosa to Resign St. John's Deanship / NY Students to Back Affirmative Action - 3/28 / David Walker Named Drake Dean / Lauren K. Robel to Head Indiana - Bloomington / Donald Polden Named Santa Clara Dean - 3/26 / Harvard Dean Search 'A Mystery' / Harvard Students: 'Racial Profiling Is Okay' / Slabach to Head Texas Wesleyan - 3/19 / Former B.C. Dean Soifer Named Hawaii Law Dean / At Law School's End / PA Candidates May Take Bar Exam Essays by Computer - 3/14 /  Harvard Students Want 'Affirmative Action Dean' - 3/12

GMU Accepts $1M NRA Gift
Virginia's George Mason University, a rapidly rising law school, has accepted a pledged gift of $1,000,000 from the National Rifle Association to establish a professorship in Constitutional Law and (of course) the Second Amendment. Story - 3/11

Another Boalt Dean Story
Headlined 'Professor of Desire,' a National Law Journal commentary by Stanford Prof. Deborah L. Rhode discusses legal aspects and risks of relations between law profs and students. NLJ - 3/5

Alfini Named South Texas Dean
Prof. James J. Alfini, the former dean of Northern Illinois College of Law, has been named dean of Houston's South Texas College of Law. Release - 2/28 / Moot Court Win - 3/1

Fla. Coastal Dean to Head Barry
J. Richard Hurt, the former #2 ABA accreditation official who guided Florida Coastal to ABA accreditation, has left the Florida Coastal deanship for the deanship of Orlando, Florida's Barry U School of Law, which is seeking full ABA accreditation. Story - 2/28

Law Briefs:  Law Prof Says AU Wants to 'Kick Him Off Faculty'  / John Siliciano Named Interim Cornell Dean / BYU Women 'Feel Stereotyped' / Evaluating Summer Associate Programs / The Growing Importance of the LSAT - 3/10 / Online Law School Seeks Respectability - 3/4 / Law School Tuition May Double in Arizona - 3/1 / LSAC Advice for Bisexual and Transgendered Prelaw Students  -2/26

UVA Student-Prof Suit Settled
A lawsuit by a University of Virginia law student against UVA Law Prof. Kenneth Abraham for "offensive touching" in a pre-law torts class has been settled, with the terms not disclosed. JD2B link (PDF) - 2/26

Harvard Law Prof, Students 
Begin Reparations Battle
Harvard Law Prof. Charles Ogletree, with the support of many Harvard law students, has commenced a lawsuit as part of the objective of winning reparations for Black Americans for the repercussions of slavery. Story - 2/25

Schools Debate Prof Dating
Law schools are undecided on policies regulating dating between law professors and their students. Story - 2/22

CUNY to Toughen Admissions
CUNY, the only public law school in New York City, will toughen its admissions standards, after the school's pass rate dropped from 74% to 50%. Story - 2/17 / NY Post: CUNY's Last Chance? - 2/19

Law School Grades 'Are Arbitrary'
We always knew it, but now a study says that law school grades are not only "arbitrary" but also "discriminatory" and are designed for the benefit of future employers. Story - 2/15

Law Briefs:  14,000 Law Students Back Affirmative Action - 2/26 / Surviving the Bar Exam - 2/25 /  UC Students Angered Over Fee Hikes / LSAC Wins Battle to Build 85,000-sq-ft Edifice / LSAC Wins Battle to Build 85,000-sq-ft Edifice - 2/23 / David Logan Named Roger Williams Dean - 2/20 / Georgia Bar: Too Bad, You Failed! - 2/19 / Inside the Florida Bar Exam - 2/17 / More Opposition Voiced to Raising NY Bar Exam Pass Scores - 2/14 / Boalt Prof. Emeritus David Feller Dies / CA Law Students Blast Bush Over Iraq - 2/13 / West Group Sued for Racial Discrimination - 2/1

Deans Back Clerk Hiring Plan
The American Law Deans Association has endorsed the plan by which law clerk hiring for the 2004-05 term will be done during the Fall of 2003. Link / Plan - 2/18

Jerry Named Florida Dean
U of Missouri-Columbia Prof. Robert Jerry has been named dean of the U of Florida's Levin College of Law. Story - 2/9

UNLV Wins Full Accreditation 
UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law has been awarded the coveted full accreditation by the ABA. Press Release / Early Story - 2/10

Louis B. Schwartz Dies
Louis B. Schwartz, the U. of Pennsylvania law professor who helped draft the Model Penal Code and helped change the penal codes of many states, died in San Francisco. He was 89. Story - 2/9

Want to Be a Law School Dean?
Many law schools -- including Harvard, Cornell, Boalt, and Michigan -- are searching for new deans, and the qualifications are changing. Story - 2/5

NY Bar Enters Bar Exam Debate
The House of Delegates of the NY State Bar Association has challenged the recommendation of the State Board of Law Examiners to increase the passing score on the NY Bar Exam. Story - 1/29  [See related stories lower on this page] Update - 1/31

Prof/Student Dating Ban Weighed
The University of California is considering a proposal officially prohibiting professors from dating, or otherwise having romantic relations with, their students. Story - 1/17 / Update - 1/26

At Rutgers, Anyone Can Be Black
Rutgers-Newark School of Law practices creative affirmative action by allowing any applicant to check the box to receive the racial benefit on admissions. Story - 1.13

Law Briefs: Cooley Applications Surge / Kansas Law School May Close - 2/5 /  Rodney A. Smolla to Head U of Richmond L.S. - 2/1 / 'Why I Went to Law School' / Donald Dunn Named La Verne Dean / Hamline Gets Indian Law Gift - 1/31 /  Joseph Kearney to Head Marquette L.S. - 1/29 /  Peter Alexander Named Southern Illinois Dean - 1/28 /  D.C. Law School Expected to Get ABA Accreditation - 1/25  

Kiddie Porn Techies Sue NYLS
The two technicians who found child pornography on the computer of a New York Law School professor and were then fired have sued the school for $15 million. Story - 1.10

Harvard Gets $3M for Indian Law
The Oneida Nation has given $3 million to Harvard Law School to create a professorship in American Indian law. Story - 1/22

Law Briefs:    Confessions of a Law School Admissions Officer - 1/14 /  Stanford Launches Islamic Law Course - 1/14 /  U of Texas Alumni Named Most Marketable Grads in Texas - 1/10 / Dyslexic Bar-Exam Candidate Settles With New York - 1/8 / Jon Garon Named Hamline Dean - 1/8  

Online Grads 'Face High Hurdles'
Graduates of Concord Law School, the online program offered by Kaplan, Inc., "face uncertain prospects and high hurdles" because of lack of ABA accreditation, according to the National Law Journal, yet the school will add 650 students next year. - 1/7

GA Bar Exam to Be Waived
Georgia has joined a growing number of states permitting thousands of attorneys admitted in other states to be admitted to the bar on motion, without sitting for a bar exam, thus saving many law school grads millions of dollars for bar review courses. Details  - 12/20 /  New Jersey / California / New York / New Jersey - 2 / New York - 2 / California - 2  / California - 3

Cornell, NYU Tops on Bar Exam
Cornell and NYU had the highest pass rates of NY schools on the July 2002 New York Bar Exam. First-time takers at both schools passed at 97%. Other NY schools: Columbia 94; Fordham 89; Cardozo, St. John's 83; Brooklyn 80; Hofstra 79; Albany 77; Buffalo 73; NYLS 72; Pace 71; Syracuse 70; Touro 58; CUNY 50. Chart - 12/19  / Law Journal - 12/20

Law Briefs:  Law Profs vs. Computers - 1/2 / Law Firm Bonus Chart - 12/28 / Ranking the Law Firms - 12/27 / Why Law School Is So Ridiculously Expensive   /  Stetson Prof Blasts Stetson's 'Lack of Diversity' - 12/23

LSAC May 'End Run' US News
The Law School Admissions Council may deny law schools their LSAT information, thus depriving US News of a key factor in its law school rankings. Wall Street Journal - 12/17 / US News / Law School 100

Law Schools: Go Low Bono
Law schools are urging their grads to "start small and think local," according to The New York Times. - 12/16

BU Prof: Enron Lawyers Knew
Prof. Susan Koniak, who teaches ethics at Boston University School of Law, says Vinson & Elkins and Andrews & Kurth "had to have a bag over their head not to see that there was something fishy going on here. ... [What Enron did] is a blatant sign of possible fraud." Business Week - 12/16

Michigan Dean to Head Cornell
Jeffrey Lehman, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, was named President of Cornell University. Lehman, 46, will be the first Cornell alum to head the Ivy League school. Story /  Cornell Daily Sun - 12/14 / New York Times - 12/16  

Grading Change Opposed
By All NY Law School Deans
A change in the grading of the New York Bar Exam (See story on this page) has been opposed in writing by all 15 New York State law school deans. This change, proposed by the NYS Board of Law Examiners,  is unrelated to the radical format change proposed by NY's two most prestigious bar associations (See story below). Newsday - 12/11

Radical Change Proposed
For the New York Bar Exam
A formal proposal has been submitted by the NY State and NY City Bar Associations to accept public service as an alternative to the testing of blackletter law on the NY Bar Exam. If the proposal is adopted, many New York candidates would no longer have to pay more than $2,000 each for a bar review course. Story - 12/6

Cooley to Open New Law School
Lansing, Michigan's Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced it will open a law school in the Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo area.  This follows the announcement by its cross-town rival Detroit College of Law (now part of Michigan State) that it is opening a campus at Grand Valley State in West Michigan. Cooley - 12/11 / DCL - 11/22

NY: Bar Exam by Computer
New York State will allow 500 applicants to use computers on the essay portion of the next bar exam. Candidates will be eligible on a first-come basis. Details - 12/8

Cornell Law Dean Resigns
Lee E. Teitelbaum, who has been dean of the Cornell Law School since 1999, said he would resign the post at the end of the academic year because of family concerns. - 12/6  /  Cornell Daily Sun  - 1/16

Boalt Dean Resigns; Accused
Of Sexually Assaulting Student
John P. Dwyer, who has been dean of Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law since 2000 and a Boalt professor since 1984, has resigned both his deanship and professorship, following accusations of sexual assault of a Boalt law student. "Everyone compares him to Clinton," one student said. Story - 11/27  /  Attorney Says Act Was Not Consensual - 12/02 /  Alleged Sexual Assault Detailed  /  More Details  / Even More Details  - 12/03 /  Official Statement  /  Lawyer: 'It Was a Molestation of the Most Gross Type'  / Policy Evaluation - 12/4 /  Prof Says Press Is Wrong - 12/5 / Interim Dean Choice Near - 12/6 / About Dwyer -12/8 / Boalt Book / Scandal Echoes - 12/9 /  'Uncle Zeb' Named Boalt Interim Dean - 12/12

NY Post: 'Close CUNY'
The New York Post, in an editorial, urges New York State to close CUNY, New York City's only public law school, after the school's bar exam pass rate dropped to 50%. Story - 12/8

NY, CA Pass Rates Drop Again
Pass rates on the NY Bar Exam dropped to 67.53% for all candidates (6,546 passed; 3,147 failed), and to 76.48% for first-time takers (6,108 passed; 1,878 failed). California's pass rate dropped to 50.5% for all candidates. Anxiety / California - 11/24 / NY Post Says CUNY Pass Rate Fell From 74% in 2000 to 50% in 2002 - 12/3

Pass rates have dropped in many states since West Group shut down West Bar Review, the nation's second largest bar review course, in 1997. West has since purchased Bar/bri, the nation's largest course, after closing its major competitor. 

Law Briefs: Notre Dame Says 'No' to NYU /  Boyd Nears Full ABA Accreditation - 12/12 /  Yale Law Prof: No to Reparations - 12/11 / Catholic Dean May Get U.S. Appellate Post - 12/10 /  Most Law Students Can't Afford to Take Public Interest Jobs - 12/7 /  Atkinson Named Arkansas Dean - 12/4 /  In re VIP Job Interviews - 12/02 /  Gators Win Civil Trial Competition - 11/27 / Hot New Book: 'Law School Insider' 

BC Profs Blast JAG Recruiting 
Boston College law profs have challenged Dean John H. Garvey's defense of military recruiting and have unanimously criticized the military for "bullying its way" onto the Newton campus, according to the Boston Globe. - 12/5

S. Ct. to Hear Mich. Race Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the practice by which the U of Michigan Law School uses race in its admission of law students. Story - 12/02 /  SupremeCourt.org / Bakke 
Update - 1/15

Eugene Rostow Dies at 89
Eugene Rostow, dean of the Yale Law School from 1955 to 1965 and a foreign-policy adviser to Republican and Democratic Presidents, died of congestive heart failure.  He was 89. Story - 11/25

Lexis Parent Fights Free Websites
The parent of Lexis-Nexis is fighting the free websites offered by the U.S. Government, arguing that free websites unfairly compete with the right of Lexis-Nexis to sell the same information at a profit. Story - 11/18

Law Students 'Drowning in Debt'
The average debt for a graduating law student is now more than $84,000, causing many grads to flock to higher-paying private-sector jobs. Story - 11/18

Parent of Barbri and Westlaw
Accused of Espionage, Theft
The Thomson Corp., the Canadian parent of Barbri and other bar review courses, West Group, and Westlaw, has been sued for corporate espionage, and charged with "predatory practices," deceit, theft of confidential financial information, and breaking into password-protected websites.  CCBN  Forbes - 9/10  The Complaint 
Class Action Filed Against West - 10/12

Barbri itself had previously been accused of cybersquatting, false advertising, patent infringement, trademark infringement, FTC violations, and various violations of antitrust law.

Texas Bar Pass Rate Drops
The pass rate on the Texas bar exam has dropped from 85.45% to 80.94% for first-time takers, with the pass rate for all candidates at 73.5%.  Baylor again had the highest state pass rate. Texas Lawyer - 11/14

Clark to Resign Harvard Deanship
Robert C. Clark, who has been dean of the Harvard Law School since 1989, said he will resign the deanship and return to teaching after a sabbatical. Globe  - 11/25

Harvard May Limit Free Speech
Harvard Law School may implement a speech code prohibiting the use of harassing or offensive language in the classroom, with offending students and professors subject to punishment. Harvard already has a "difficult conversations skills" workshop for first-year students. Boston Globe - 11/19

Emory Law Prof Suspended
Story - 10/23 [See stories below]

NALP Alters Response Deadlines
The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) has changed the length of time an offer from certain types of employers should remain open for law student acceptance. Release - 11/6

Law Briefs:  West Virginia May Get Second Law School - 11/11 /  UNLV's Boyd Law School Is Recommended for Full ABA Accreditation - 11/2

Law Prof: Texas Tech Discriminates
Texas Tech Law Prof. Daisy Floyd has accused the Lubbock university and its president of discriminatory acts. Story - 11/14  Bias Denied - 11/22

New Law School to Battle ACLU
Liberty Law School, a religious school affiliated with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, is expected to open next year so that its graduates can fight the "anti-religious zealots" at the ACLU. Story - 10/22

More Law Schools End Military Ban
More and more law schools are allowing military recruiters on campus, while some schools, such as Golden Gate, Vermont, and William Mitchell, are maintaining their principles and denying access. Boston Globe  - 11/12

Texas Wesleyan May Be Sold 
Ft. Worth's Texas Wesleyan School of Law may be sold to University of North Texas in Denton. A relatively new law school, Texas Wesleyan has had one of the highest pass rates on the difficult Texas bar exam. Story  - 10/30

Schmoke to Head Howard
Kurt Schmoke, the former mayor of Baltimore, has been named dean of Washington, D.C.'s Howard School of Law. Story  - 10/16 / Schmoke's Problems - 10/26

Law Briefs:  ACLU Defends Harvard Law Student - 11/01 /  Florida Students, Firms Adjust to Recruiting Changes - 10/30 /  Law Students Say Howrey Simon's 'Reality Bites' - 10/7 / Yale Law Allows Military Recruiters - 10/2  /  Chronicled Life at Harvard and Stanford Reviewed - 10/5  /  Tulane Law Clinic Thrives, Despite Adversity - 10/8

Georgetown: 'You Have One Hour
To Accept Your Tuition Discount'
Georgetown Law Center is offering discounts on tuition -- and giving at least one prospective student a one-hour deadline to accept, according to The Washington Post. - 10/14

Vermont Says No; USC, Harvard
Say Yes to Military Recruiters
Bowing under financial pressure, many law schools, including Harvard and USC, are permitting military recruitment on campus, despite voiced objections, while Vermont Law School continues to say "No." Story - 10/13

Male Law Prof Wins $1.2 Million
For School's 'Sexual Harassment'
Prof. Stephen Root has won a settlement of $1,200,000 from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in a suit against the San Diego school and a female law prof for sexual harassment in denying him tenure after the professors' "friendship cooled." Story - 10/4

Emory Law Prof Arrested
Emory Law School Prof. David J. Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was arrested and released after he was charged with physically abusing the law school's director of operations. Story - 10/1
Prior Incident Disclosed - 10/7 / Update - 10/17

Law Briefs: Law Student Wins $8.5 Million for Testicle 'the Size of an Orange' - 9/8  / U of Maryland Enrollments Jump as Law School Is Wired - 9/20  / Georgia State Is on a Roll - 9/20  / John Marshall Prof: We Don't Need Cyberlaws - 9/20  /  Harvard to Study Labor and Worklife Issues  - 9/18  /  Pitt to Offer Disability Program - 9/18  /  Future Harvard Law Student Named Miss America - 9/21

West Parent Seeks U.S. Listing
Thomson Corp., the Canadian parent of West Group, Westlaw, Bar/bri and other bar review courses, has applied to have its common shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Thomson shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. - 5/2

Yalies Protest Racial Hiring
More than half the students at Yale Law School have signed a petition challenging what they say is the law school's inadequate hiring of Black and Latino faculty members. Story - 4/25

Hot Law School: Texas Wesleyan
With one of the highest pass rates on the Texas bar exam, Ft. Worth's Texas Wesleyan has emerged as the hot new law school. Story - 1/12

U. Illinois Dean to Head St. Thomas
Prof. Thomas Mengler, the dean of the U. of Illinois College of Law, will leave to become dean of the recently-reopened St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. - 1/7

South Texas May Not Wed A&M
Houston's South Texas College of Law and Texas A&M University have been dealt a major setback by the Texas S.Ct. in their affiliation attempt. Story - 11/15

NY Pass Rate Jumps to 70%
The pass rate for the Summer 2001 N.Y. Bar Exam was 70.4%, the highest since 1997, with first-time takers passing at 79.6%.- 11/20 Pass List / Alternate Site 

Nova's Shepard Broad Dies
Shepard Broad, the legendary South Florida lawyer who financed Nova Southeastern's eponymous Shepard Broad Law Center, died at age 95. Story 1 Story 2 - 11/9

Fordham Dean Feerick to Resign
John D. Feerick, who has been dean of New York's Fordham Law School since 1982, announced he will retire as dean after this school year. -11/6  Meanwhile, Texas Tech School of Law dean W. Frank Newton said he will resign the deanship to run a foundation that provides computers to low-income students. - 11/9

Florida Law School Cuts Opposed
Black and Hispanic legislators are at odds with the Florida legislature's attempt to cut budgets at the new FIU law school in Miami and the new FAMU law school in Orlando. Story - 11/11

Lessig: 'The Death of the Internet'
Stanford Prof. Lawrence Lessig says that innovation on the Internet is being killed by AOL and other large corporations. Story - 11/10

Northeastern's Abrams to Resign
Roger Abrams, dean of Boston's Northeastern School of Law since 1998, has announced he will resign for personal reasons. Abrams was formerly dean of Rutgers-Newark. - 11/1

Utah L.S. Receives $26M Gift
The Univ. of Utah Law School has received a gift of $26 million and is renaming the school the S.J. Quinney Law School at the University of Utah. Story - 11/4

Cutthroat Harvard Now Snuggly?
Harvard and other top-tier pressure-cookers are reinventing themselves as warmer, gentler, kinder law schools, according to L Magazine. Story - 11/5

Tech Founding Dean Dies
Richard Amandes, the founding dean of Texas Tech School of Law, has died at the age of 74. Story - 10/31

Harvard's Loss Is Stanford's Gain
Lawrence Lessig, who taught at Harvard before he was lured to Stanford by Kathleen Sullivan, has kickstarted the law school's IP program and added luster to its faculty. Story - 10/17

U. of Texas to Pay $1M Fees
The U. of Texas has been ordered by a Texas federal judge to pay more than $1 million in legal fees and expenses for the plaintiffs in the Hopwood litigation, which ended the law school's racial preference in admissions. Story - 10/23

Minority Clerkships Addressed
A program to help minority law students get judicial clerkships has met with success. Story - 11/6

Nonlawyers Vie for Emory Deanship
Two of  the three finalists for the deanship of Emory Law School are not attorneys, or even law-school graduates. Story - 10/19