Month: April 2014

The new ABA employment data is out and its summative chart is here.  Individual school data is here. In 2013, there were 46,776 graduates of ABA law schools.  Nine months…

The University of Pennsylvania Law School has announced that Wendell Pritchett will take over as the school's interim dean this summer.  He replaces Mike Fitts who is becoming President of…

The LSAC reports that "As of 4/4/14, there are 324,781 fall 2014 applications submitted by 47,176 applicants. Applicants are down 8.0% and applications are down 9.3% from 2013.  Last year at this…

I'm delighted to announce that Steven Freedman, assistant dean of admissions at the University of Kasnsas School of Law, is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for…

The ABA has recently announced the finlists for its Silver Gavel awards for media and the arts, "which recognize outstanding work in media and the arts that fosters the American…

The Association of American Law Schools Poverty Law section is calling for papers for its January 2015 AALS annual meeting panel,  Working But Poor: Understanding and Confronting the Working Poor…

This building, which was built before the Civil War, was a county courthouse.  It is now used mostly -- perhaps exclusively, I couldn't quite tell -- as a library.  Pretty…

So says the NY Times. All right, contestants.  Name those five schools.

Today the University of Alabama's Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review is hosting a terrific symposium on The Legacy of 1964: Race and Gender Inequity Fifty Years Later Symposium.  …

Professor Alberto Gonzales has been named the new dean of Belmont University College of Law, effective June 1.   He served as the first George W. Bush Administration Attorney General.  He…