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From distinguished to despicable, who should be Above the Law’s Lawyer of the Year for 2022?

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law plans to offer an undergraduate bachelor of science degree in legal studies, the school announced Tuesday.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Law School Admission Council announced today the expansion of its LawHub offerings through the acquisition of Law School Transparency, a...

It's amazing how far this nonprofit has come. Great work!

Law School Transparency, an organization founded more than a decade ago by new lawyers who were frustrated by the lack of public data on matters, including employment outcomes and student loan debt, is being acquired by the Law School Admission Council, the organization announced Wednesday.

Yale Law School will begin covering full tuition for its lowest-income students next fall, to make obtaining a law degree more affordable.

Crain's recently reported that meetings between members of a committee exploring a possible combination of the law schools fizzled in March 2021. Nonetheless, university officials indicated recently that merger talks had not officially ended. A Thursday, Jan. 27, letter from school officials reports that discussions of a merger have ceased.

From distinguished to despicable, who should be Above the Law’s Lawyer of the Year for 2021?

January 12, 2021 at 5:16 PM Shares1 No single event triggered the assault on the Capitol last week, but one of the more significant signposts was the wide dissemination of the cockamamie theory that the vice president of the United States wields the hidden constitutional power to just ignore electoral college votes. It’s a measure of authority that, if it existed, one assumes John Adams would’ve liked to have known about. Alas, it does not exist. So how did something this stupid get into th...

Shares3 With 2020 almost in the rearview mirror, we thought it would be a good time to solicit nominations for Above the Law’s annual LAWYER OF THE YEAR competition. Which lawyers made major headlines during the year that was? We’ll conduct the competition as we’ve done for the past decade. Please submit your nominees to us by email (subject line “Lawyer of the Year 2020”). We will review them and pick a slate of finalists, and then you’ll vote on them in a reader poll. The winner...