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It was a GOOD week for …

Getting a job, after it was reported that 96.5 percent of 2012 summer associates at the nation’s largest firms received full-time employment offers. American Lawyer reported that the offer rate in 2012 was almost identical to last year’s, when 1,234 of 1,280 summer associates were offered jobs. The number of law students who spent their summer at a major firm was up slightly from the year before.

It was a BAD week for …

Starting a business as a law professor, after two former law professors, Kamina Pinder and Scott Sigman, filed a lawsuit against their former employer, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. The former associate professors claim their contracts were not renewed due to racial discrimination and retaliation. But the school said it opted not to renew the contracts because the two were launching a private business, Law School Advantage, which helps prepare incoming law students.

Pinder is an African-American woman and accused the school of a history of giving minority women the least desirable teaching assignments. Sigman, a white man, claimed he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about the administration’s handling of personal matters and unfair grading. The school’s faculty handbook prohibits professors from starting outside businesses.

Maintaining enrollment, after it was revealed that 44 law schools saw their incoming class sizes drop. Hamline led all schools with a 33 percent decline. Twelve schools had declines of 20 percent or greater, including University of Texas, University of Arizona and Penn State.

Hamline -33.0%
Wake Forest  -31.4%
Hawaii -25.9%
Valapraiso -25.2%
Gonzaga -25.0%
Penn State -22.7%
Seton Hall -22.6%
Charleston -21.1%
George Mason -21.0%
Arizona -20.9%
Texas -20.0%
UC-Hastings -20.0%
Oregon -19.7%
William Mitchell -19.1%
Houston -18.2%
Wayne State -18.2%
Case Western -17.9%
Connecticut -16.6%
Washington U. -16.1%
Georgia -16.0%
Indiana -15.8%
Geo. Washington -15.6%
Santa Clara -15.3%
Albany -14.0%
Hofstra -13.6%
Boston U.  -12.8%
Stetson -12.8%
Oklahoma City -11.9%
Seattle -11.1%
Vanderbilt  -10.4%
Minnesota  -10.2%
William & Mary -9.7%
St. John’s -9.6%
Columbia -7.3%
Colorado -6.7%
Florida State -6.5%
Alabama -6.1%
USC -5.5%
Michigan -3.9%
Michigan State -2.9%
Notre Dame -2.7%
Yale -1.0%
UC-Davis -0.5%
St. Thomas -0.0%

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