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• 15.6% drop in number of applicants for US law schools

  Apr 11 2012 There has been a 15.6 per cent drop in the number of students applying for admission to US law schools this year, with the total pool of applicants numbering about... more

• U.S. News publishes list of law schools that increased their admissions in 2011

  Mar 29 2012 While law school admissions in the US have, on average, been decreasing, there are a few schools that saw enrollments increase in 2011. U.S. News & World Report has... more

• Paul Campos proposes 30% cut to Stanford Law School's fees

  Mar 13 2012 The debate over law school fees is a controversy that seems to continue without precipitating a whole lot of change for the better. Now, Paul Campos has proposed an... more

• Assistant dean at University of Illinois falsified admissions data for money

  Nov 17 2011 The former assistant dean of admissions at the University of Illinois law school falsified LSAT and GPA data in order to increase his own salary, according to a final... more

• US law schools under Senate scrutiny

  Nov 16 2011 The US legal education industry appears to be under Senate scrutiny, with reports surfacing that Senate staff are gathering statistics on graduate employment and... more

• NY State Bar Assn pushes for more practical legal education

  Aug 08 2011 According to the New York State Bar Association, US legal education puts too much emphasis in theoretical knowledge and does not equip lawyers with the practical... more

• Graduate deferrals continue at US firms

  Jun 21 2011 The effects of the recession are still being felt by law school graduates, with many firms still deferring their incoming classes. At Proskauer Rose, the class of... more

• University in Delhi sees 7,814 students apply for 70 spots

  May 21 2011 The results of the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) conducted by National Law University, Delhi (NLU-D) were declared yesterday. More than 7,800 students wrote the... more

• Recruitment Tracker: NALSAR witnesses 100 per cent recruitment this year

  Apr 19 2011 NALSAR, University of Law, Hyderabad recently completed its recruitment programme for the batch graduating this year. According to the Recruitment Coordination... more

• How to apply for scholarships and LL.M. in the UK

  Apr 12 2011 The process of LL.M. application in UK (United Kingdom) universities can be divided into four major stages. First is selection of the universities to which one would... more

• US News ranks law schools on basis of graduate starting salary

  Mar 31 2011 US News, those inventive list makers, has come up with yet another ranking system for prospective law students: “10 Law Degrees With Most Financial Value at... more

• UK College of Law offers a law degree at a high price

  Feb 03 2011 The College of Law in the UK has announced that it will offer a law degree. The dgree will take just two years to complete, and will carry fees of £18,000 - nearly... more

• 4th NLSIR-Palkhivala Foundation Taxation Law Essay Competition- Submission

  Jan 31 2011 The National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore in association with the Nani Palkhivala... more

• Moily inaugurates CLEA and talks of 14 more national law schools

  Jan 31 2011 The Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) held a two-day conference, in association with the National law School of India University (NLSIU, Bangalore) over... more

• Outlook ranking debate: Are the magazine rankings transparent?

  Jan 28 2011 NUJS and its faculty led by Prof. Shamnad Basheer are not happy with Outlook’s response to the 2010 Rankings debate. Outlook had ranked several law schools in its June... more

• India: GNLU Law Review call for papers

  Jan 25 2011 The GNLU Law Review (TGLR) is the flagship of the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, India. The Review is a general student edited law review published... more

• India: Changes for Common Law School Admission Test

  Jan 25 2011 The Common Law School Admission Test (CLAT) has come out with significant changes for the 2011 exam. The CLAT is followed by 11 of the National Law Universities and... more

• NALSAR call for papers on Intellectual Property Law

  Jan 25 2011 The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad’s (NALSAR) student run journal and is wholly... more

• India (Comment): The Irony of Law School

  Jan 25 2011 If law schools are brought into existence to serve a social purpose and create ‘socially conscious’ individuals as they claim to do so, then the prevailing structure... more

• India (Comment): When Tables Turn

  Jan 25 2011 Several years after graduating from law school, I got a chance to attend my mini law school reunion. It was great to see how my classmates had grown in every possible... more

• Columbia Law School follows trend to introduce accelerated JD/MBA

  Dec 23 2010 Columbia Law School has announced the introduction of an accelerated J.D./MBA joint degree program, allowing students to obtain both a J.D. and MBA within three years.... more

• Bar Counsil of India Member arrested for issuing BCI Certification to a Law College

  Dec 22 2010 The Central Bureau of Investigations last night arrested Bar Council of India Member of the Legal Education Committee, Rajendra Singh Rana on charges of demanding... more

• 100 year old Judge back in school to enroll for his PhD

  Oct 19 2010 Economic Times and India Blooms reports about India's oldest university student, 100-year old Bholaram Das, who has enrolled for his doctorate. A teacher, a lawyer, a... more

• Cracking the next CLAT on May 15, 2011

  Sep 29 2010 The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), from 2011 onwards plans to focus its approach more on the aptitude and reasoning skills of a candidate with more weightage to... more

• New LL.M. in Advocacy

  Aug 25 2010 American University Washington College of Law is proud to announce the new Master of Laws, LL.M. in Advocacy. Accepting enrollment for Spring 2011. For more... more

• Overwhelmed – hang in there! Law school is a marathon, not a 100-meter dash

  Jul 27 2010 It is again that time of the year where fresh batch of bright young minds are just starting their law school life. more

• Duke Law School's 100% graduate employment stats

  Jun 11 2010 Duke Law School is proud of its ‘Graduates Employed at Graduation’ statistics, which sat at 100% through 2008 and 2009 while the industry languished in the economic... more

• NLU results out, LST students get Top Honours

  May 18 2010 The results for the National Law University, Delhi (NLU) entrance examination were declared yesterday with nine of the top ten students from Career Launcher’s Law... more

• Bleak outlook for recent graduates

  May 06 2010 Things are looking pretty bleak for this year’s crop of law school graduates, despite modest indications of market recovery. Many 2009 law graduates just started work... more

• NALSAR to implement 20% AP Quota from this year

  Apr 23 2010 Nalsar will have to provide 20 percent quota for Andhra Pradesh students as per the Government ordinance 3 of 2010. Bar & Bench had first reported in February,2010... more

• US job market: Law school no longer a safe bet

  Jan 28 2010 While law school may seem like a safe choice, there are not always jobs waiting at the end of the tunnel. In the current economy the law industry is facing lay-offs,... more

• Cornell Law School Applications Increase By Record 52 Percent

  Jan 27 2010 As the recession increases interest in graduate programs nationwide, the number of applications to Cornell Law School had jumped an unprecedented 52% by last... more

• US law schools attract more older students

  Jan 12 2010 The financial crisis is now motivating some older professionals to attend law school, just as applications to law school - and graduate school in general - is on the... more

• Summer School on European Business Law - Registration for 2010 started...

  Jan 11 2010 The Registration for this year's Summer School on European Business Law in Duesseldorf (Germany) started. The Summer School on European Business Law is a joint... more

• LSAT test-takers up by nearly 20 percent

  Nov 26 2009 In September 2009, 60,746 people took the LSAT, a jump of 20 percent from the year before. The spike in the numbers is seen as an indication that law school... more

• Yale, North Dakota, Stanford top judicial clerkship feeder schools

  Sep 07 2009 Yale Law School tops the clerkship list published by US News, with 37% of graduates in federal clerkships, followed by North Dakota (25%), Stanford (23%), Harvard... more

• Big U.S. law firms cut back on law school recruiting

  Sep 02 2009 U.S. law students are competing for about half as many openings at large law firms this year as last year. Several law firms have canceled on-campus interviews as... more

• Eight Chinese students win Jones Day Fellowship award

  Jun 23 2009 Eight law students from Beijing-based universities including Peking and Tsinghua were honored with the 2009 Jones Day International Legal Fellowship awards. They... more

• US law firms delay start dates for associates until 2010, 2011

  May 12 2009 Many top law firms have delayed start dates for first-year associates until January 2010, September 2010 or - like Morrison & Foerster - as late as January 2011.... more

• Law students are adapting to a changing job market

  Mar 03 2009 Law School Angst: Layoffs, lost clients, fewer billable hours. It's a new world for grads, but jobs still exist. more

• School rank and GPA aren't good predictors of biglaw success

  Oct 20 2008 Law school rank and GPA were only moderately predictive of success, a study found. In general, one of the study’s authors told the ABA Journal, “The Harvard attorneys... more

• Star professor Dame Hazel Genn new Dean of UCL Laws

  Sep 29 2008 Professor Dame Hazel Genn has been appointed Dean of the UCL Faculty of Laws for a five-year term. Dame Hazel Genn is currently Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and... more