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LegallyNoted.com is an online law school note-sharing website.

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Officials at Rutgers in New Jersey have announced a plan to merge the university’s two law schools at Camden and Newark. The merger, which would take place by the fall of 2014, would create one of the country’s largest law …

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‘I’ve said what I have to say, at least in this format.’ University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos says he has filed his last post at Inside the Law School Scam. Campos started his blog (anoymously, but revealed his …

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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 …

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A University of Virginia law student thought her claim to fame on the the Ellen DeGeneres Show was going to be a silly online video of her dance moves. But 3L Dana Tapper, who wants a career advocating for children, …

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The University of Pennsylvania sent 60 percent of its graduates to the nation’s top 250 law firms last year, putting it in the No. 1 spot on a list of BigLaw feeder law schools. The National Law Journal ranked the …

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As part of the process of implementing new standards for law schools to report employment data about their graduates, the American Bar Association is seeking bids for what the National Law Journal calls a law school data cop. A request …

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A University of Missouri law professor says he’s tempted to file ethics complaints against lawyers at law schools who have lied about student data. Associate law professor Ben Trachtenberg tells Bloomberg Law that such deceit could be an ethics violation …

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Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School and Columbia Law School top a new list ranking law reviews. Yale Law Journal is in the No. 8 spot on the list, behind the law reviews of the University of Pennsylvania, the University …

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t denying the reports. In fact, his spokeswoman is repeating the accusation: Harvard Law School was home to numerous Marxist professors when Cruz attended in the early 1990s.

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Due to a data entry mistake, the University of Chicago was initially left out of a list of the top 50 law schools published in the February issue of National Jurist. But that mistake, as well as some questionable data, …

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As calls for reform of legal education continue to suggest a variety of directions, one thing is certain. Law schools will be expected to do more with less. We often hear legal educators highlight tensions within the loud criticisms aimed …

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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 …

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National Jurist’s controversial law school rankings will be corrected after a University of Chicago law professor accused the publication of using “baroque methodology.” The magazine had ranked Yale at No. 13 and the University of Chicago at No. 56. The …

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After years away from law practice, it isn’t easy to return to a legal career, especially in the midst of a difficult economy. But Pace University has helped about half of those who completed an 11-week training session and an …

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If you want to read a report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission on the impact of a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision, you will have to rely on the blogosphere.

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University of California at Hastings law dean Frank Wu says his perspective has changed since he was a lawyer in private practice. Writing for the Huffington Post, Wu says he is now a client instead of a “real lawyer” in …