Month: March 2014

The LSAC reports that "As of 2/28/14, there are 271,556 fall 2014 applications submitted by 39,334 applicants. Applicants are down 12.0% and applications are down 12.5% from 2013.  Last year at this time,…

Lawrence Mitchell, who came to Case Western Reserve Law as its new dean in 2011,  has resigned. He has been on a leave of absence since November when fellow faculty…

I've updated my 2013-14 dean search list here. There are a few high-profile openings that remain unfilled, including Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, GW and Wash U.  I imagine we'll hear more…

Last week, Kim Krawiec organized "Taxing Eggs," a mini on-line symposium here at the Lounge on the tax consequences of the compensated transfer of human eggs.  Lisa Milot (Georgia), Larry…

This coming Saturday I'm going to be back in Oklahoma City for a conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ralph Ellison's birth.  This is part of the MELUS [Society for…

Peter Pitegoff, the Dean of the University of Maine School of Law, has announced that he will step down at the end of the 2014-15 school year in June 2015.…

I wanted to again thank our guest bloggers, commenters, and readers of last week’s Taxing Eggs mini-symposium and collect the links to all of the posts in one place for…

The school lists discount by LSAT and GPA.   The most surprising thing to me wasn't the particular discount rates for each of the LSAT/GPA cohorts.  It was the existence…