Month: July 2014

From an email message that I received in recent days: The Editorial Board of The Business Lawyer is soliciting submission of articles and essays for Volume 70.  TBL is the…

The New York Court of Appeals has amended the state's bar admission rules to allow law students who are completing their final semester - and participating in the state's new…

We've been waiting for the June LSAT administration numbers for a while.  There is a rumor afloat that there were 21,802 LSAT test takers for the June 2014 administration. This is…

When I first saw the Pittsboro County, VA confederate monument I thought he was facing south.  That surprised me because it would be a big no, no -- as people…

Drexel University School of Law will be hosting the second Mid-Atlantic Law And Society Association (MALSA) Conference on Saturday, October 18, 2014.   The conference is aimed at work that…

The Richmond Times Dispatch has the details of the resolution of the controversy over the Confederate flags at the Lee Chapel.  The short version is that the replica flags, which…

From an email that I received today: The University of Oklahoma College of Law is recruiting outstanding faculty to our flagship state law school. Over the past decade, the College…

Professor Raymond Ku and Case Western Reserve University have settled their differences.  Ku, a professor at Case Law, sued the University claiming that then-Dean Lawrence Mitchell retaliated against Ku for…

It's been about a month since the LSAC last updated their data on applicants for fall 2014.  They are now reporting that "As of 7/04/14, there are 347,967 fall 2014 applications…

This just in: Call for Papers: AALS Section on Civil Procedure The Civil Procedure Section of the AALS will present a panel, “The Rising Bar to Federal Courts: Beyond Pleading…