Vincent G. Rinn Law Library (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mr. James M. Lyons, a 1971 law graduate of the DePaul Law School and member of the DePaul University College of Law Dean's Council, has been named as an Honorary Consul For Ireland in the Denver area. He will join...
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Southern New England law school dean Robert Ward is preparing for battle over his school’s plan to merge with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and become the state’s first public law school. Ward defended his school during a tour of the campus with a Boston Globe reporter. Ward says the idea is to gain ABA accreditation for his school while keeping tuition low. Tuition...
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Aera (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., has chosen Jeffrey Kinsler, a professor and senior scholar at the Elon University School of Law, to be its first College of Law dean.
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Last year, moving away from letter grades was all the rage. Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School both dumped letter grading. But now grade reform has spread to schools that are tinkering with their curves. USC Law decided to give students an extra .1 -- you know, 'cause it looks better. NYU Law also made things a little easier for their students, academic rigor be damned. Last week, we received...
Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Justice Joyce Kennard: Oops, I'm a lawyer. Justice Joyce Kennard gave a life lesson. Ming Chin campaigned for retention. And UC-Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr. essentially called Chief Justice Ronald George a judicial Methuselah. All these fun...
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier will preside and administer the attorney's oath when 94 new lawyers are admitted to practice in ceremonies in Carbondale on Nov. 5. The group is among 2,314 men and women who were certified as candidates and will be sworn in as attorneys at ceremonies in the state's five Supreme Court judicial districts, according to a press release from the Illinois...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Read this entire article. It’s important, and it shows a new kind of US, one we haven’t seen before. It begins: “When the history of this distinguished court is written, today’s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,” writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean and a man widely viewed as the most illustrious living [...]
