Taxation & Estate Planning

Law Schools in Jeopardy of Failing ABA's New 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
On Saturday, I blogged on TaxProf Blog the ABA's expected approval, at its meeting this week in Los Angeles, of a new objective bar passage standard for law school accreditation. Under the proposal, over a five-year period, 75% of a school's graduates must have passed the bar and the school's annual first-time bar passage rate in its home state must not be more than 15 percentage points below the average first-time bar passage rate in that state...

ABA Accreditation & the Bar Passage Rule Debate
During the past year, the hottest topic concerning the ABA accreditation of law schools has been the debate over the bar passage rule, Interpretation 301-6. The final version of the rule was adopted at the February 2008 mid-winter ABA meeting...

Gary Rosin on ABA's Proposal Regarding Bar Pass Rates and Accreditation
We've been following South Texas Law Professor Gary Rosin's important work on bar pass rates for a while and its implications for the ABA's consideration of modifications to its law school accreditation standards...

Two North Carolina Law Schools Receive ABA's Provisional Accreditation
Elon University School of Law in Greensboro [Press Release] and Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte [Press Release] have received provisional approval from the American Bar Association, raising to an even 200 the number of ABA-approved law schools nationwide...

Whittier Law School Appears Headed Towards Full ABA Accredition
We have previously followed Whittier Law School's ABA accreditation problems. They have been on probation for a number of years and at one point, they were in jeopardy of loosing their provisional accreditation...

University-wide Re-accreditation as a Catalyst for Best Practices
Law schools that are units within a larger university structure will be a part of the university-wide re-accreditation process. It is not unlike the ABA re-accreditation process. It involves a self-study, standards, a site visit and a report...

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

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

Medtronic
Leads Failing

Jevic Transportation
allegedly failing to give 60 days warning before closing plant.

Windows Software
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.

US Army Corps of Engineers
Class action dismissed for allegedly failing to protect New Orleans from the levee breach.