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Dean’s Desk: Third year offers students opportunity to define, hone skills
Our profession is in the midst of an important conversation about legal education – one that encompasses the costs of that education, the employment opportunities for entry-level lawyers, and the curriculum that law schools offer.
Annual survey finds fewer law school admissions and applications
A majority of law schools across the United States are cutting their admissions for the second year in a row and a significant portion expect to continue the reduction in class size next year, according to the 2013 Kaplan Test Prep law school survey released Oct. 1.
Retired Indiana chief justice assures ND law students ‘it will turn out well’
Notre Dame law students received words of comfort and encouragement about their decision to become lawyers from an Indiana jurist who is leading a massive study of the cost and content of legal education.
Dean’s Desk: Blend of theory and practice will make Tech Law unique
In August of this year, Indiana Tech Law School opened its doors in Fort Wayne with a commitment to changing the way legal education prepares students. Despite the national news reporting that there are too many law schools and not enough jobs and the Internet blogs criticizing all new start-ups as a waste of a student’s money, Indiana Tech Law School was established, in part, to respond to the criticism that law schools are not adequately training students to become effective legal professionals.
Indiana Tech dedicates law school, answers critics
Amid much pomp and circumstance, Indiana Technical Institute welcomed its new law school by reiterating its vision of legal education, praising its students and faculty, and pushing back against critics.
ABA Legal Education Task Force calls for law school innovation
The American Bar Association Task Force for the Future of Legal Education, led by Randall Shepard, retired chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, issued its draft report Friday, Sept. 20, with recommendations for improving law schools.
Easterbrook applauds Indiana Tech Law School for trying new approach
Indiana Technical Institute used the dedication ceremony for its new law school to reiterate its vision of legal education and push back against critics.
Indiana Law School Briefs – 9/11/13
Read about events and the latest news from Indiana's law schools.
McKinney professor Arafa says law students in his native Egypt are helping to guide nation’s future
Mohamed Arafa recalls the day last month when he left Cairo, Egypt, to return to his adjunct professor post at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. The streets in the capitol of his native land were full of people demonstrating, and it took four hours in a taxi to navigate to the airport. “Today we have two presidents on trial,” Arafa said of the day he departed Cairo.
IU McKinney author series spotlights faculty writers
An Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Professor will kick-off the school’s series of faculty book lectures by examining the birth of the 14th Amendment.
Rise of legal services bringing upheaval and opportunity, Maurer professor says
The advances in technology that rocked the industrial arts, bringing automation and displacing workers, are coming to the legal profession and giving a bigger role to nonlawyers, according to William Henderson, a nationally recognized authority on the legal profession and legal education.
Bodensteiner: Too many lawyers? The problem may be one of ‘allocation’
Valparaiso University Law School Interim Dean Ivan Bodensteiner argues that there may not be too many lawyers, but the problem may be one of how those resources are allocated.
ABA task force sees role for many in helping to fix legal education
In its review of legal education, a special committee led by retired Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard concluded that fixing the problems in law schools will require help from individuals and groups outside the classroom.
Indiana’s 5th law school opens
The Indiana Tech Law School opened Aug. 26 in Fort Wayne with an inaugural class of 30 students. Within the Allen County legal community, the new law school has drawn mixed reaction.
From Atlantic to Pacific, the golfing is terrific; McKinney student completes 96-day fundraising odyssey
Luke Bielawski, a student at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, has spent the better part of his summer teeing off from California to South Carolina as a fundraiser for Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis.
McKinney student to take final tee shot to end 2,900-mile journey
After 96 days of whacking a golf ball, Luke Bielawski will hit a final shot into the Atlantic Ocean Saturday.
Judge: Conour to stay behind bars before sentencing
Former attorney William Conour will remain jailed pending his sentencing in a little more than two months, a federal judge has ruled.
Shepard task force paper cites ‘deeply flawed’ legal ed funding system
Former Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard’s task force looking at the future of legal education financing sees a “deeply flawed” system, according to a working paper presented at this week’s annual meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco.
Indiana Tech Law School shows new building to community
Indiana Tech Law School recently held a series of open houses to give professors, lawyers and community members a peek inside its new building.