Academic

Irate law school grads say they were misled about job prospects
Matt Rainey/The Star-LedgerSeton Hall law school graduates Scott Bullock and Justine Zappone say they were dismayed at the meager opportunities and heavy debt they faced. He blogs about his frustration...

Reynolds: Further Thoughts on the Higher Education (and Law School) Bubble
Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee), Further Thoughts on the Higher Education Bubble (Washington Examiner): Assume that I?m right, and that higher education -- both undergraduate and graduate, and including professional education like the law schools in which I teach -- is heading for a major correction...

Glenn Reynolds is right about the higher education bubble.
See here.

A Tale of Two Job Markets for Law School Grads
My co-blogger Bill Henderson (Indiana) has done more than anyone I know to puncture the myth of the rosy job prospects for most law school graduates. His post on the bimodal distribution of starting salaries for the law school class...

The Law School Tuition Bubble
Conglomerate, Minding Our Own Business Forum: Bubbles, Student Loans and Sub-Prime Debt, by Christine Hurt (Illinois) ABA Journal, Law Prof Sees Parallels Between Tuition Hikes and Subprime Mortgage Bubble, by Debra Cassens Weiss Above the Law, The Next Bubble: Law School Tuition, by Elie Mystal Chicago Tribune, Law School Tuition...

Should we be teaching more
There has been a lot of conversation about the existence of a legal education bubble, and I have zero expertise on those dynamics. I do know quite a bit about me, though, so my thoughts at these times naturally turn to the question, what would the post-bubble legal education world have to look like for me to jump back into private practice? Now perhaps the post-bubble world means non-existence for some law schools, particularly the new ones, which could hasten my return to practice...

Sunwest Management Inc.
allegedly misled residents about staff and daily care.

School Racism
School District pays $250,000 in racial harassment settlement.

Student Harassment
Wichita School District pays $45,000 settlement for high school students' harassment lawsuit.

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.

Department of Education Fraud
$4.25 million settlement to be paid in whistleblower lawsuit.

Racist Voicemail
Stamford Board of Education pays student $37,500 settlement after failing to protect her from racial discrimination.