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Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law School Celebrates 57 Years of Greater Purpose at Annual Law Dinner

Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law Celebrates 57 Years of Greater Purpose at Annual Law Dinner: Framed by Pepperdine’s “For Greater Purpose” theme, the Pepperdine Universit...

Justice Department Finds UCLA Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions

Press Release, Justice Department Finds UCLA Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today investigative find...

Pepperdine Asks 9th Circ. For Another Shot At Netflix TM Suit

Pepperdine University is urging the Ninth Circuit to revive its trademark suit over the "Waves" team name used in a Netflix sports comedy series starring Kate Hudson, arguing that...

West Virginia College of Law Names Four Law Dean Finalists

The search committee, led by John Chambers College of Business and Economics Milan Puskar Dean Joshua Hall and search firm Greenwood Asher & Associates, selected four candidate...

On-Line JD Programs Advance

Christie Melendez offers this useful summary of the many schools now offering on-line JD programs of one sort or another. She explains different categories of school, how ABA appro...

Grand Canyon University Names Inaugural Dean for the College of Law

James L. Williams has been named the inaugural dean of GCU’s new College of Law. Williams, a graduate of the Baylor University School of Law, is an attorney and shareholder with Ph...

DOJ Challenges UCLA Law’s Admissions Practices

UCLA Law is facing federal scrutiny over its admissions practices. The post DOJ Challenges UCLA Law’s Admissions Practices appeared first on LAmag.

Legal Education Podcasts

Most of my podcast listening and podcast producing has little to do with law or legal education (I am a long-standing GFOP, and IYKYK). Once in a while, however, I come across a le...

Most Student‑Friendly Law Schools

Microsoft Copilot generates this response to the (overly?) general query: Most Student‑Friendly Law Schools For 2026, the most “student‑friendly” options combine high acceptance ra...

Article: Disbarment Disparities: How Law School Prestige Affects Disbarment Rates

Michael Conklin (Texas A&M), Christopher Houston (Angelo State) & Gayle Randall (Angelo State), Disbarment Disparities: How Law School Prestige Affects Disbarment Rates, 21...

Journal of Legal Education: “Leadership and Character in the Law”

The Journal of Legal Education has published a new issue (Volume 74, Number 1), a symposium issue titled “Leadership and Character in the Law.” The issue is the product of a sympos...

As ABA Awaits Dept. of Education Accreditation Decision, Legal Ed Ponders Its Future

ABA Journal, As ABA Legal Ed council awaits Dept. of Education accreditation decision, educators consider future: U.S. Department of Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent’s decis...

What Elite Law Firm Associates Reveal About Law School Pipelines

Adam Feldman (President, EmpiriLaw), A Map of Destinations: What Elite-Firm Associate Rosters Reveal About Law-School Pipelines: [W]hen people ask which law schools place students...

Grand Canyon University Planning Law School and Technologies College

The LL.M. Honor Roll: Ranking The Nation’s Best Specialty Degree Programs In Law (2026)

When it comes to tax law, you may be surprised by which schools made the grade. The post The LL.M. Honor Roll: Ranking The Nation’s Best Specialty Degree Programs In Law (2026) app...

Loyola Law Partners With Mexican University to Expand Migrant Advocacy

LMU Law has expanded its Binational Migrant Advocacy Project through a partnership with ITESO in Guadalajara, providing cross-border legal support for migrants while training stude...

Best Law Schools for Hot Dogs

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Microsoft Copilot generated the following response to “Best Law Schools for Hot Dogs”: “If you’re looking for a law school with a `hot dog’ them...

Inside Duke’s 1-person pre-law advising office

Ella Moore for The Chronicle writes that “Although law school admissions have rapidly changed in recent years, the structure of Duke’s Office of Pre-Law Advising — among the first...

Inside Higher Ed on the Rapid Growth of Online and Hybrid Legal Education

Inside Higher Ed features a brief interview with Stephen Burnett, a former information technology dean at Seattle University School of Law, on the current state and future trajecto...

Best Law School Graduation Gift

Microsoft Copilot generated this response to a query about the best law school graduation gift. The response in my estimation lacks much creativity: “The best law school graduation...

DOJ and Education Department Find Berkeley Law Used Race in Admissions

The Justice Department and Department of Education have announced a joint finding that UC Berkeley School of Law discriminated on the basis of race in its admissions process, marki...

Law School or Political Power Base?

This powerful story by Benjamin Wofford in the New Yorker tells a harrowing tale of imposed student student discipline and the alleged false resignation of a faculty member followi...

Law Firm Leadership Training

David Lat, at Bloomberg Law, reported recently on a law firm “leadership development” program that both cuts against my recent observations about employer-side professional develop...

AccessLex Institute: What Matters for Bar Success

AccessLex Institute has released a study “[d]rawing on data from more than 13,000 law graduates from 36 law schools [that] examine[s] how academic performance (GPA and course grade...