At the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco, it was announced that the law school of the world’s largest Christian university has been awarded full accreditation. On Thursday, Liberty University School of Law was given the full accreditation status by the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which is [...]
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of a California public law school to deny recognition to a national Christian student organization because that organization’s beliefs violate the school’s policy on nondiscrimination. In the 5-4 opinion, the Court upheld the lower court rulings in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, saying the group’s (student chapter [...]
Approximately 200 people including representatives from the Idaho Supreme Court and Idaho Court of Appeals, celebrated the groundbreaking of Boise’s first law school on Tuesday. The new Concordia University School of Law will be located downtown Boise which will transform a current empty building into the law library and classrooms and a what is now [...]
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled a lawyer will be suspended from practicing law for three years for leaving critical information out of his law school application, including having been kicked out of medical school and falsifying his transcripts to land a summer associate job . Loren Friedman, who now attends business school at the University [...]
A Liberty University School of Law team placed first at the regional ABA Law Student Division National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC), held in the nation’s capital. Liberty had 2 teams among the 33 teams representing the 21 law schools from 10 states and the District of Columbia. The team of Timothy Todd, Ben Walton and Matthew [...]
During last week’s midyear meeting, the American Bar Association House of Delegated narrowly passed Resolution 10A that would “examine” the way law schools and law firms are ranked. The ABA specifically called attention to the methodology behind U.S. News Best Law Schools and upcoming U.S. News Best Law Firms. The resolution adopted by the ABA reads, “Resolved, that the American [...]
The dean of California’s Chapman University School of Law says he is stepping down to seek the Republican nomination for state Attorney General. To date, only one candidate, state Sen. Tom Harman is seeking the GOP nomination to succeed Democrat Jerry Brown, as the Golden State’s chief legal officer. John Eastman, who teaches Constitutional Law, [...]
The University of California’s Hastings College of the Law announced Wednesday it has selected law professor Frank Wu as its new chancellor and dean. Wu, 42, will assume his new position on July 1, 2010, and will have a salary of $350,000., He is currently teaching legal history, immigration law, business law and evidence at [...]
Liberty University School of Law announced this week a 100 percent pass rate for students who have taken the bar exams in Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Mat Staver, dean of the School of Law, said Liberty’s national pass rate in 2008 was 92 percent, with 94.4 percent in Virginia. This year the Virginia [...]
In today’s economic environment cash strapped businesses seek creative ways to operate lean and bring in additional revenue – like selling naming rights. Harvard Law School announced on its website to alumni, that they seeking “gifts in support of both its unrestricted and capital needs.” “Named gifts may bear the donor’s name or may be [...]
