Legal Research

Where Are the US News Top 30 Law Schools of 1996 Now
If one is interested enough to get beyond the chatter about which law schools rose or fell a couple of places in the 2009 US News ranking, one might want to ask "where are the Top 10, or 20 (or...

Beware Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings
We all want to feel good about ourselves. We want to think we are the best, or at least trying to be the best we can. The same is true for institutions like law schools. So, U.S. News & World Reports comes along and starts ranking law schools...

Ind. Decisions - Still more on "Federal magistrate urges ban of schools faith study"
For those interested in the case involving the Huntington County Community Schools and the establishment clause, about which the ILB...

Why Consumer Reports Should Rate Law Schools (and Probably Other Graduate Schools Too)
Consumer Reports should rate law schools, and perhaps other schools too, for the following four reasons: First, the existing U.S. News rankings do not adequately measure law schools from the perspective of consumers, which in the case of law schools...

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...

U.S. News 14 Year Average Ranking
Tax Prof Blog has an interesting posting compling the 14 year average ranking for several schools. Available here. Query whether this type of data means anything. No matter what you think of the U...

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.

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