Month: May 2015

"Heartbroken" owners of Charleston Law, Robert Carr and George Kosko, threatened to stop admitting new students to the law school this fall.  I say threatened because the press release was titled…

In recent weeks, two law school leaders announced they are stepping down from their positions.  Dean Leroy Pernell will return to the Florida A&M faculty this fall after serving as…

We're very pleased to welcome Professor Taunya Lovell Banks to the Faculty Lounge for a visit.  Professor Banks is the Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence at University of Maryland Law.…

I am deeply saddened and shocked to report that the distinguished intellectual historian Michael O'Brien passed away yesterday.  He was a professor of history at Cambridge University.  He is best…

This just in: This year the Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair will be held August 5-7, 2015 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Lavender Law brings…

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You can slice and dice these ABA employment stats 1000 different ways, but Matt Leichter has ranked schools by percentage of the class employed nine months out in full-time, long-term, ...

The ABA declined to approve Indiana Tech School of Law's initial application for provisional accreditation.  The story is here.  The school now will hustle to receive provisional accreditation prior to…

The University of New Mexico has announced that its law dean, David Herring, will step down after two years leading the school.  Herring stated that "it wasn't a good fit…

This just in: Cybersecurity has become a critical national security and corporate security problem in the last fifteen years. Examples include hackings of the Pentagon, SONY, Target, JPMorgan Chase, Home…