Month: January 2015

A commenter on my last post interpreted it as a general post on best practices in law blogging. I didn't think it was, but I thought the points deserved a…

Acting Dean Alicia Ouellette, of Albany Law School, has been named permanently to the position. She will also become the free-standing school's president beginning July 1, when former dean Penelope…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 1/16/15, there are 153,547 fall 2015 applications submitted by 22,272 applicants. Applicants are down 7.7% and applications are down 10.4% from 2014.  Last…

Over at Legal Whiteboard, and at SSRN, Jerry Organ is presenting his new data in a package called The Variable Affordability of Law School - How Geography and LSAT Profile…

In addition to the supportive comments on this and other blogs, I have received quite a few private emails since writing about ME/CFS, especially after my post was picked up…

Bumping to the front from 1/6/2015; deadline for updates is 1/22/2015 The abundance of tweets at the AALS Annual Meeting (#AALS2015) made me sit up and take notice of how ...

Mark Gordon, the president of Defiance College, in Defiance, Ohio, has been named the new dean of William Mitchell College of Law.  He was previously the dean of Detroit Mercy…

I'm pleased to be hanging out in the Faculty Lounge for a bit. I hope to be able to discuss some topics that don't fit in my regular (new) blogging ...

I'm delighted to report that Michael Risch of Villanova University's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Cribbing now a little from…

By now, most Lounge readers are likely already familiar with SeekingArrangement, a website that connects sugar “babies” and “daddies.”  For those that aren’t, SeekingArrangement claims 3.6 million active members, 2.6…