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Even though they each graduated in the top 10 percent of their respective graduating classes in Syracuse University’s College of Law, Robert Emmet Dineen and Carolyn Bareham Dineen, both faced major challenges in their paths to establishing law careers.

Undeterred, they relied on their education, sheer tenacity and each other in building exceptional careers as lawyers and as respected members of the communities in which they lived and worked.

The Wilkes University Board of Trustees voted to suspend work on the Law School Planning Initiative.

Spurred by a difficult economy, the decision enables the university to focus strategic resources on its highest priority, renovations to Stark Learning Center, which houses the university’s science, health and engineering programs.

Wilkes University President Tim Gilmour said the decision to table the law school planning initiative reflects the University’s commitment to its core mission of educating undergraduates.

Franklin Pierce Law Center Dean and President John D. Hutson has announced that the school’s affiliation with the University of New Hampshire is right on course.

The new University of Massachusetts School of Law at the Dartmouth campus received its first major private scholarship gift on July 1, the same day that the school officially accepted a $23 million donation of facility, land and cash assets from the former Southern New England School of Law.

The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, et al., signifying an important win in the country’s highest court for the College’s policy on recognition of student organizations and for higher education generally.

Suffolk University announced today that Camille Nelson, a distinguished legal scholar and professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law, will become dean of Suffolk University Law School, effective Sept. 1, 2010.

Nelson will be the first woman and the first person of color to hold that position in Suffolk Law School’s 104-year history.

 The National Federation for the Blind has added four California law schools to a suit filed last year against the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC). The suit claims that LSAC’s online application system violates the Americans With Disabilities Act and other state disability laws because it is not accessible to the blind.

 Sixty-nine school deans have signed a letter endorsing Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, praising her “understanding of both doctrine and policy.”

The letter, addressed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, was distributed by the White House as means of garnering support for Kagan’s upcoming Senate confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to begin June 28.

 This summer, Touro Law School awarded over half a million dollars in work study money and fellowships to students, making Touro’s paid summer internships one of the largest programs nationwide.

The grant allows 167 students to be paid for work for public interest organizations and government agencies, ranging from District Attorney’s Offices to the Department of Homeland Security, from Los Angeles to Manhattan.