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The Chicago Tribune has uncovered a “jobs-for-entry” scandal at the University of Illinois College of Law, in which the law school admitted politically-connected applicants, some unqualified, in exchange for guarantees of jobs for law graduates. In one example, recorded in emails obtained by the paper, University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman coerced the law school in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law school had jumped on the bandwagon. The University of Miami School of Law is asking incoming 1L students invited to start in the Fall to defer their entry into the law school until Fall 2010. Students who [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The University of Alabama School of Law will allow a select group of Honors College students to apply without providing results from the Law School Admissions Test. The Tuscaloosa-based law school says it is “streamlining” the admissions process for the Alabama Honors College students. To be eligible, the students must be Alabama residents and have an undergraduate [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School of York University will review admissions procedures, after The Toronto Star discovered a third-year student had used a bogus undergraduate degree to enter the program. According to dean Patrick Monahan, the Canadian law school is “investigating additional verification measures that could be put in place to detect cases of fraud in the admission [...]
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