The growth of third-party litigation financing (TPLF) may be the catalyst that ushers in a reversal of the legal market and an unprecedented resurgence of the legal profession.

Whether you are on the brink, taking the leap into adulthood, leaving home, choosing university, or thinking about a career path, I counsel you to think about choosing the law as that path.

We know a lot more today than we did in the 1880s, when this format was devised, about how students learn and how teaching can be made more effective. We can certainly develop a modern curriculum to teach these topics and skills in six months.

Dean Dan Rodriguez has written a letter to his students at Northwestern University Law School to announce a class size reduction, a tuition increase, and a commitment to increase scholarships and to cover LRAP costs.

Potential students are balking at paying 150 to 200 thousand dollars for a law degree. A closer look at the law school curriculum explains where many of the bloated and entirely avoidable expenses originate.

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Law schools must continue to change. Our technology-based culture has proven again and again and again that the only true constant is change.

I went to law school for the same reasons you think you should go -- and I was wrong. I should never have gone to law school, and you shouldn't either.

The latest argument about the legal academy seems to be whether law schools ought to hire as professors those individuals with established careers in practice instead of intellectuals who boast extraordinary potential for publishing.

As a law school dean, I have thoughts to share about legal practice. That's right, about legal practice.

Although some of the criticisms of the present legal education environment are valid, I disagree that law schools are graduating too many JDs.

Those of us in positions of leadership in legal education must undertake a serious and genuine review of the system so we do far more than merely fix what we didn't like about our professional preparation.

Accredited law schools today are guided by a standard model. This model is not required by the accreditation standards. Rather, it is an unwritten set of characteristics widely viewed as the ideal for legal education.

Legal education is said to be in crisis. Law school applications are down sharply as prospective law students question whether the high cost of legal education is worth it.

A law-school dropout saddled with debt is auctioning away his name on eBay, allowing the winning bidder to legally rename him for two years. The biddi...

The Rutgers University School of Law - Camden used misleading employment data in a recruitment letter written by Associate Dean of Enrollment Camille ...

Law schools have lied and cheated to compete for new students and higher rankings. They need a makeover: the product is not attractive to prospective students, employers or clients.

Jobless graduates are a grave concern to legal educators, and their heightened numbers warrant serious attention. Unfortunately, the consideration being paid is more often superficial than serious.

Considering law school? It's not always a guaranteed path to fame and fortune. In fact, many famous and interesting people dropped out of law school i...