Law Students

More On Law Schools Gaming U.S. News And World Reports Rankings
The December 2008 ABA Journal has an interesting story entitled Transfers Bolster Elite Schools about law schools gaming the U.S. News and World Reports rankings. How? Through transfer students...

Law Students Having Trouble Getting Bar Loans
Bad news for law students. I wonder how this will affect bar passage rates? Law schools, obsessed with U.S. News rankings, cannot afford to have students failing the bar because those students can't afford to study properly for the bar...

Grand Theft Law Student
The law school ranking system created by U.S. News & World Reports is just destructive on so many levels. No telling how much of the tuition increases over the last 10 years have been a direct result of law schools competing in ways to trump this system instead of actually teaching lawyers to be good lawyers...

International Students in U.S. Law Schools
How are U.S. law schools meeting the needs of students from other countries? Click here to download an article by Julie Spanbauer, who surveyed LL.M. programs in the United States and how they handle students who speak English as a...

More on students who sue law schools
Here is WSJ Law Blog post on students suing law schools. As always, it elicits some interesting comments from the WSJ law blog readers.

The Educational Quality of Law Schools: What's the Relevant Data
Yesterday, I laid out conceptually how we might think about comparing the "value added" for students across law schools in order to fill out the U.S. News survey. A critical component of this, of course, will be relative educational quality, and one obvious question is how exactly to get at that...

Stanford, Harvard, Yale: A Sample Voters' Guide for This Fall's U.S. News Survey
I think it makes sense to start at the top. Because we have a relatively well-defined market -- the schools that, for students with a choice to go anywhere, are the ones from which to choose...

Does Your Law School And Professors Really Appreciate You Or Are They Just Taking Advantage Of You
I have received a number of emails of late in which law students and recent graduates write of the caring nature of their law schools and their professors. It begs the question of whether law schools and professors truly appreciate their students or do they just appreciate the fact they can borrow seemingly larger amounts of money? For no apparent reason, other than to keep up with U...

Study: College More Likely for Charter Students
Students who attend charter high schools are substantially more likely to graduate and go on to college than students who attend traditional public schools, a new study of Chicago schools found.

KeyBank USA
alleging the bank offered loans for fraudulent vocational schools.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Kamehameha Schools
$7 million non-native Hawaiian racial discrimination settlement.

Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students
Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.

Western Culinary Institute
allegedly mislead and ill-prepared students.