Month: January 2015

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 1/02/15, there are 116,256 fall 2015 applications submitted by 17,506 applicants. Applicants are down 9.0% and applications are down 11.1% from 2014.  Last…

Professor Andrew Guzman of UC Berkeley Law has been named the new dean of the University of Southern California law school, effective this summer.  Guzman is currently also the Associate Dean…

Just in time for the beginning of property class comes this article from the Washington Post on an estate that LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson purchased in -- do I…

Cardozo Law Dean, and former Fordham Law Professor, Matthew Diller is moving back uptown.  He will become the new dean of Fordham Law and will take over this summer.  Diller,…

Trying to find the panel on which one of my colleagues was speaking, I discovered that one can use the AALS conference app to search de facto for speakers by…

Last week, I challenged Jay Conison to provide some data to substantiate his claims that a.) Charlotte School of Law/InfiLaw has some magic formula for identifying students with very low…

The AALS Annual Meeting is well under way in Washington, D.C.  For the first time, the conference had its very own app, which was handy in some ways, limiting in…

Having just finished up the Business Associations program on The Future of the Corporate Board this morning, I’m now off to Boston for a panel tomorrow at the American Economics…

I have the sad duty of reporting another recent passing of a beloved professor. University of Florida law professor Mike Seigel passed away yesterday. He was a 1994 graduate of…

I am so sorry to report that Pam Bridgewater has passed away, at far too young an age. Pam taught for many years at American University's law school and she…