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Law school employment data pushes U.Va. to #1

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 16, 2013
Tags: Law Schools

Virginia law students have something else to brag about. After learning last week that the state’s bar exam is one of the toughest in the nation, University of Virginia law grads also can take pride in the value of their law school education as recently calculated by a California law professor. Pepperdine law professor Derek [...]

Virginia schools steady in U.S. News rankings

By Peter Vieth
Published: March 14, 2013
Tags: Law Schools

The 2014 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings brought little change for Virginia law schools, with only the University of Richmond marking a shift – for the better – of more than two positions. The annual rankings were published last Tuesday. The University of Virginia remains the state’s only top 10 school, unchanged [...]

Bar Exam passers become Virginia’s newest lawyers

By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: October 29, 2012
Tags: Bar passers, Law Schools, New Lawyers, Virginia Board of Bar Examiners

Virginia welcomes 1,076 new lawyers after today’s admission ceremony. The number reflects those who successfully completed the July 2012 Virginia Bar Exam and met the licensing requirements needed to be sworn in this morning at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. According to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, the overall pass rate for all applicants [...]

UVa law prof grades candidates’ ‘rhetoric’

By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 9, 2012
Tags: Elections, Law Schools

CHARLOTTESVILLE – If only President Obama had had Molly Bishop Shadel on speed-dial for that first presidential debate, things might have gone differently. During one of those podium pauses when Obama was looking down, Shadel could have texted back suggestions that might have fired him up to deliver his final remarks with a bang, not [...]

New dean: High costs of legal ed due in part to practice programs

By Peter Vieth
Published: September 13, 2012
Tags: Bar Associations, Law Schools

ROANOKE – Blame demands for a more practical law school experience for at least part of the rise in the cost of legal education. So says Nora V. Demleitner, the new dean of Washington & Lee University’s law school. More clinical programs and smaller class size are driving up the price of law school, Demleitner [...]

Employment stats show tough market

By Peter Vieth
Published: June 21, 2012
Tags: Law Schools

Sobering new statistics illustrate the difficulty of turning a law degree into a full-time practice position, unless your degree comes from a top tier law school. The American Bar Association has – for the first time – provided numbers for full-time, long-term legal jobs landed by recent grads. Nationally, only 55 percent of the class [...]

Autistic law student’s loans discharged

By Dolan Media Newswires
Published: June 4, 2012
Tags: Bankruptcy, Federal Courts, Law Schools

A former Regent University doctoral student with Asperger syndrome will not have to pay almost $340,000 in student loans she accumulated during her almost 20-year pursuit of higher education, including a stint at law school, a Maryland federal bankruptcy judge has ruled. Asperger, a disorder considered on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, makes [...]

UR law clinic finishes work with Sands Anderson’s help

By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: May 7, 2012
Tags: Law Firms, Law Schools

When University of Richmond law professor John Carroll passed away suddenly this past March, the fate of the legal clinic he founded hung in the balance. With only five weeks left in the semester, the eight law students involved in the Intellectual Property and Transactional Law Clinic were left without a leader to oversee their [...]

W&M dean explains drop in U.S. News rankings

By Peter Vieth
Published: March 29, 2012
Tags: Law Schools

The College of William & Mary law school sank eight spots in the annual rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report, and the school’s dean says the drop is due to the number of graduates who are unemployed. Dean Davison M. Douglas said the lower rank is tied to the number of students employed [...]