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School inflated grades and LSAT scores to make school more “selective”

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“Super Lawyers” throughout the state and the nation can breathe easy — the controversial New Jersey ethics opinion prohibiting the use of the designation in lawyer advertising has been vacated. In its ruling today, the New Jersey Supreme Court expressed doubt whether the ethics panel’s opinion (known as Opinion 39) would survive constitutional scrutiny because [...]

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U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim – head of the CIA? The Wall Street Journal places the highly respected Minnesota federal court judge on a list of top contenders, apparently for his handling of a number of terrorism cases. Tunheim was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1995, when he was [...]

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One has to think that the action of the Illinois attorney general in asking the state’s highest court to grant a temporary restraining order preventing Rod Blagojevich from acting as governor is the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass. Understandably not wanting to wait for the impeachment process to play out, the Illinois AG [...]

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Looks like a less than Merry Christmas for federal judges, who won’t be getting a raise this year after all. As we mentioned in a post yesterday, a $5,000 raise for members of the federal judiciary was tacked on as a rider to the auto bailout bill. It can be tricky to get raises through [...]

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The Star Tribune’s biting article on the 97-year-old fruitcake got me wondering whether there have been any appellate cases in Minnesota regarding the much maligned holiday confection. A quick search of the courts’ online case archivive (which stretches back 12 years) revealed that there were no appellate decisions during that period containing the words “fruit [...]

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In the “are there too many lawyers’ category, I submit for your approval the fact that the American Bar Association just granted provisional accreditation to a North Carolina law school, making it the 200th ABA-accredited law school in the nation. For the math challenged among you, that averages out to four law schools per state, [...]

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I remember back when I was studying for the bar way back in the ancient days when you had only two choices for bar review courses — go to the “live” lectures or watch the group videos in a classroom full of other recent law school grads. My alma mater – Boston College Law School [...]

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Our regular blog readers may remember a commenter using the name “Bitter 3L” who told us he/she that was a third-year student at the University of Minnesota Law School who could not find a post-graduation job. Some of you responded to 3L’s post, offering such comments as law students have no right to expect their [...]

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There is a article worth reading on MinnPost about the University of St. Thomas School of Law. A student at the school was apparently denied “volunteer credits” (required by the school as part of its curriculum) for volunteer work done with Planned Parenthood. According to MinnPost, Dean Thomas Mengler announced in a campuswide letter that [...]

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