The VLW Blog

An effort to open Virginia State Bar membership to law professors with recent practice experience is advancing again in the General Assembly. The plan would allow law professors to become active members of the bar if they have engaged in the full-time practice of law for five of the last seven years. Their law license [...]

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The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the names of the 1,136 applicants who passed the July 2012  bar exam. The list includes a section for exam-takers who passed but are not being licensed at this time due to outstanding requirements. Below are the July 2012 pass rates for all applicants and for law [...]

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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 [...]

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The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the names of the 294 applicants who passed the February 2012  exam. The list includes a section for exam-takers who passed but are not being licensed at this time due to outstanding requirements. Below are the February 2012 pass rates for all applicants and for law schools [...]

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College of William & Mary law dean Davison M. Douglas says the school’s drop on the U.S. News & World Report list this year resulted primarily from the number of unemployed graduates. The W&M law school fell from 27th to a tie for 35th in the U.S. News rankings. Douglas said the drop is tied [...]

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Four Virginia law schools can point with pride to advancements in the latest rankings from U.S. & World Report, and Washington & Lee has moved ahead of William & Mary on the magazine’s list. Law schools at the University of Richmond, Washington & Lee University, the University of Virginia and George Mason University all moved [...]

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The Appalachian School of Law has appointed LSU law Prof. Lucy McGough as its eighth dean. McGough will succeed Clinton Shinn who returns to teaching as of June 30. McGough has been on the Louisiana State faculty for more than 25 years where she has written extensively on juvenile justice and family law. She was [...]

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The law student suspected of a break-in at the U.Va. registrar’s office may have used a hidden camera to spy on activities in the office. But the student’s plan seems to have backfired. As The Daily Progress reports, court records indicate the camera caught the suspect in the act. On Dec. 7, just before 3 [...]

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With a whole semester grade riding on one three hour exam, law students are famously stressed out this time of year. George Mason University’s law school offers unconventional relief — let the anxious academics play with puppies. The Arlington law school partnered with a local animal rescue group for “Puppy Day,” with predictable results. Students [...]

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Students at the William & Mary law school may be in danger of running out of places to party in Williamsburg. After shenanigans at a gathering aptly titled “Fall From Grace” last month, the hotel called the dean to say the law school was no longer welcome in its facilities. That’s according to a email [...]

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