Officials at the University of Baltimore began digging for the $107 million, 190,000-square-foot law project at North Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue in Baltimore, Md. The site will provide space for the University of Baltimore School of Law, the sixth largest public law school in the country.

Over the past two years, the University secured $15 million in private funding to support design, development and construction and to be used in conjunction with funding from the state of Maryland. 

Carolyn Lamm officially passed the gavel to incoming ABA President Stephen Zack Aug. 9 during the 2010 American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Lamm, the former ABA president, told the House of Delegates that Zack was an “incomparable advocate and strategist.”

Former Harvard Law School Dean, Elena Kagan, was confirmed as the 112^th justice to the Supreme Court on Thursday, Aug. 5 and sworn in the following Saturday. Kagan will replace justice John Paul Stevens and is the fourth woman ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prior to her nomination, Kagan served as solicitor general to the Obama administration. 

Sixty law schools have been selected by preLaw magazine as the 2010 Best Value Law schools, the magazine announced Aug. 5.

“With tuition and cost of living expenses outpacing entry-level salaries, it is more important than ever for prospective law students to take into account value,” said Jack Crittenden, Editor and Founder of preLaw magazine and its sister-publication The National Jurist.