Bucking the trend of declining admissions figures, one US law school is reporting that it had no shortage of applicants this year. The new University of North Texas Dallas College of Law just $14,540 a year in tuition…
Applications US law schools are down 8 per cent, following even greater declines the two previous years, according to new data published by the Law School Admission Council. The total drop in applications since 2010…
Finally some good news for US law students: the job offer rate for students that did a summer associateship in 2013 is nearly as high as it was before the financial crisis. The offer rate for those students was…
The American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Legal Education has reported on a number of key problems in with the legal education system in a new working paper, and is mooting reform. The economics of…
The U.S. News law school rankings - fundamentally flawed and grossly influential - have been released. The group of schools in the top 14 remained the same this year - with some minor changes to their respective…
Clarke Willmott has announced that it will no longer be accepting training contract applications from students. According to a new policy, the only path toward a training…
October is usually a busy month for the LSAT - the Law School Admission Test, but last month the number of people taking the test dropped 16.4 percent from the year before, reaching its lowest level since 1999. The…
Despite dismal statistics on student debt and graduate job prospects, it seems that law school graduates have good feelings about the institutions that educated them. In a survey of more than 700 law school graduates…
American Lawyer magazine has reported an increase in the number of law students who spent their summers working at major law firms between 2011 and 2012, finding that nearly all of those students were offered full-time…
Yale Law School has announced the launch of the first US Ph.D. program in Law, with the aim of preparing law students for a career in legal academia. The program will focus on scholarly research and writing, and includes…
Law schools are responding to the worsening job market by offering students more courses that teach practical skills, says a new survey conducted by the American Bar Association. The survey compares current curricula…
The American Bar Association says that just 55% of US law school graduates in the class of 2011 have found employment in full-time legal jobs. Law School Transparency boils the numbers down even further, reporting on…
Douglas Sylvester, Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State, is working on the first large-scale, nonprofit training law firm affiliated with a law school. The concept was inspired by the medical…
Law School Transparency, a group dedicated to improving consumer information concerning the value of legal education, has updated its estimates of the amount of student debt that will be carried by law students, revising…
Law students taking the bar in New York next year will be required to do 50 hours of pro bono work as a condition of their license to practice. Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who introduced the change last week,…