The VLW Blog

Paul Caron, author of the TaxProf Blog, has crunched a new set of numbers to rank law schools. The way Caron weighs the numbers, the University of Virginia comes out number one, as reported by the ABA Journal. Caron analyzed data from Princeton Review to compile his own list of top law schools. Yale comes [...]

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The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has posted the results for the July 2010 Bar Exam. Of the candidates who sat for the exam this past summer in Roanoke, 1,139 received a passing score, for a pass rate of 75.2%. The VBBE website also provides pass rates for each Virginia law school. Bar passers will [...]

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Law students at Regent University’s law school blow off steam playing intramural flag football. Not so weird, you might say, but these people really take this stuff seriously. There’s even a website where the team rankings are listed (the 3L team “The Gong Show” is the odds on favorite so far). Check out the team [...]

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When Virginia Lawyers Weekly published its Dress Code Survey results back in July, a resounding 89 percent of poll-takers shook their heads at showing off tattoos. But a handful of University of Virginia law students recently dared to bare their ink for the student newspaper. These future lawyers revealed the stories behind their tats, recalling [...]

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College seniors working on their applications to law school should choose wisely when deciding who to ask for a letter of recommendation. With all the detail work needed for the rest of the application, the requests for recommendations might seem like an afterthought. A recent report from the Kaplan test prep people suggests, however, that [...]

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Six years after opening, Liberty University’s law school has been awarded full accreditation by the American Bar Association. Approval came Aug. 5 from the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar at the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Liberty’s law school opened in 2004 and obtained provisional ABA [...]

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Former George Mason University law professor Kyndra Rotunda has settled the remaining claims in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the school and her former supervisor, Prof. Joseph Zengerle, reports the ABA Journal. Alexandria U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema dismissed most of the case last month, leaving only state law claims of assault and battery against [...]

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The only remaining claim in the wide-ranging sexual assault lawsuit filed by law professor Kyndra Rotunda against George Mason University is a state law count of assault and battery against her former supervisor, Prof. Joseph Zengerle. Alexandria U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema dismissed the rest of Rotunda’s case, which also named Zengerle and GMU law [...]

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Mark Grunewald (right), a law professor at Washington and Lee University since 1976, will become interim dean on July 1. The current dean, Rodney A. Smolla, is leaving to become president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C. A graduate of Emory University and George Washington University law school, where he was editor-in-chief of the law [...]

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A trial advocacy team from the University of Virginia has accomplished what the school’s football team could not .  It defeated William & Mary. U.Va. here duly notes the fine achievement of its four-member mock trial team in taking the win at the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Regional Tournament in Washington D.C. [...]

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