Education
Court Battles Could Expose ‘Secretive’ Law School Accreditation (Corrected)
•Four law schools are suing American Bar Association for arbitrary enforcement of accreditation standards •Lawsuits have some merit even if for-profit schools suing are problematic, scholars say The […]
Seventh Circuit Adopts Harassment, Discrimination Policies
• Chief Judge Diane P. Wood says Kozinski scandal pushed court to reexamine equal employment opportunity plan • New plan includes sections on harassment, discrimination, and confidentiality The […]
Law School’s Accreditation Yanked, Attorneys Say ABA Justified
The American Bar Association has yanked the accreditation of Arizona Summit Law School, the first time it has taken such action against a fully qualified program, and attorneys […]
Brooklyn Law School Dean Steps Down
Brooklyn Law School president and dean Nicholas W. Allard will be resigning at the end of this academic term, the school announced Tuesday. “This was a difficult decision […]
Do Attorneys Need Mandatory Technology CLEs? N.C. Bar Says Yes
• One-hour class dedicated to technology training would be mandatory for North Carolina attorneys under proposal • Rule change could send message that attorneys must understand how technology […]
Law School Diversity Highlights Need for Pipeline Initiatives
White law school applicants are significantly more likely to be admitted to law school than members of other races or ethnicity, according to a new report. That means […]
Obama EEOC General Counsel Lopez Tapped as Rutgers Law Dean
David Lopez, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s chief prosecutor for most of the Obama administration, has been selected as the next dean of Rutgers University Law School, sources […]
Law Students Push Back Against Mandatory Arbitration
American law students entering on-campus interviews for Big Law summer associate jobs this summer will be armed with one new piece of information: whether firms require associates to […]
ABA Hit With Another Suit on Law School Standards
The American Bar Association has been hit with a third suit in a week alleging its law school accreditation practices are arbitrary and unconstitutional. The now-shuttered Charlotte School […]
ABA’s Accreditation Standards Under Microscope in Two Suits
The American Bar Association faces suits in two separate but related cases implicating its law school accreditation standards. The suits are flip sides of the same coin, David Frakt,a […]