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Family's gift of $15 million kicks off campaign for new Syracuse building

Even though they each graduated in the top 10 percent of their respective graduating classes in Syracuse University...
Wilkes University suspends planning initiative

The Wilkes University Board of Trustees voted to suspend work on the Law School Planning Initiative. Spurred by a...
Pierce Law and New Hampshire affiliation continues on course

Franklin Pierce Law Center Dean and President John D. Hutson has announced that the school’s affiliation with the...
UMass Law receives first major private scholarship gift

The new University of Massachusetts School of Law at the Dartmouth campus received its first major private scholarship...

Critical Issues in Legal Education

Diversity Part II: What law schools are doing

Two years ago there was a stand-off in legal education. The American Bar Association, prompted by the Bush...
The diversity challenge

Law schools have long known that first-time bar pass rates for minority are dismal compared to others, and the reasons...
The downside of ‘grade inflation’

Grade inflation may be nothing new at undergraduate schools, but the practice at law schools is getting plenty of...
Q&A with incoming ABA President Stephen Zack

Miami lawyer Stephen N. Zack, a partner in the national law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner, was elected as...

Employment Insider

National LGBT Bar Association’s Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40

The National LGBT Bar Association released a list of the Best Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Lawyers...
Diversity among top women general counsel hits all-time high

Mirroring the rebounding economy, the ranks of women general counsel at Fortune 500 companies bounced back in the...
Environmental law got hotter than usual this summer

On July 6, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued highly anticipated regulations, now called the Transport...