A George Washington University law professor claims in a lawsuit that she broke her heel after falling from a lecture platform that was “unreasonably small in width and depth.” International law professor Dinah Shelton says she fell while delivering a …
Updated: In what may be a harbinger of a new round of litigation against law schools accused by their own graduates of luring them to enroll with misleading legal job placement information, an appeal to the state’s highest court has …
A California law school is suing state bar officials over a new bar passage rate requirement that it says could cost the school its accreditation. The Southern California Institute of Law, which has campuses in Santa Barbara and Ventura, claims …
A New York judge has dismissed a $50 million lawsuit contending Albany Law School misled would-be law students by publicizing an employment rate of about 95 percent. Judge Richard Platkin dismissed the case in a Jan. 3 opinion, the New …
A law professor who wrote a law review article on gender-stereotyping theory has been sued for alleged defamation over a footnoted case study he used involving a claim of vegetarian bias. The defendant, employment law professor Zachary Kramer, is now …
A Manhattan appeals court ruled Thursday that a trial court judge was right to dismiss a lawsuit by graduates of New York Law School over the institution’s marketing materials. The Appellate Division, First Department held that the school’s disclosures about …
A judge has denied Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s motion for summary judgment against the lead plaintiff in a class action suit by four graduates who say they were tricked into attending the school by misleading post-graduate job statistics. The …
Northwestern University School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions has launched the nation’s first and only project devoted to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions of women. The Women’s Project was unveiled at a press conference Thursday at the law school…
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