Above The Law

MARCH 18, 2025

The government may be coming after some of the most successful law firms in the country, but weve got just what every member of the legal profession wants to see to get their minds off this dystopian nightmare: a ranking of the best law schools in the world. More than half of the worlds top 10 law schools are in America!

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Above The Law

APRIL 28, 2025

As weve mentioned time and time again here at Above the Law, there are lots of factors that go into deciding what your perfect law school is. Though it should be noted that what specialty you want to practice as an attorney may vastly differ from the ideas you have before you enter law school.) Michigan 8 3.7

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The post Michigan Law School Wins Rivalry Week appeared first on Above the Law. Having some fun at the expense of Ohio State fans on the faculty.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A deer decided to take an uninvited tour of the Michigan law library. Animal Crashes Through Window To Roam Michigan Law School appeared first on Above the Law. The post Oh Deer!

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ABA Journal

JULY 14, 2023

A federal judge in Detroit has narrowed a Black law professor’s discrimination lawsuit against the University of Michigan Law School. In a July 7…

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ABA Journal

JULY 21, 2023

The University of Michigan Law School is requiring applicants to certify that they didn’t use ChatGPT or other artificial intelligence tools when drafting personal statements…

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LegalReader

AUGUST 11, 2021

Applications are now being accepted for the Michigan Workers Comp Lawyers’ 2022 scholarship. law school. . It is open to 1L, 2L and 3L students who are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident currently enrolled in an ABA-accredited U.S.

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Above The Law

JUNE 16, 2023

The post Will Employers Model Their Post-Affirmative Action Hiring After These Two Law Schools? appeared first on Above the Law. How do we keep the effects of Bakke without the process?

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The post Michigan Football Copies & Pastes Legal Argument Directly From Fan Message Board appeared first on Above the Law. First stolen signals, now this?!?

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Above The Law

JULY 21, 2023

The post T14 Law School Bans ChatGPT From Admissions Process In Weird Self-Own appeared first on Above the Law. Hating on AI is fashionable, but it doesn't make a lick of sense when it comes to admissions.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

NRE is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law and was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The unusual step of charging the parents in relation to the recent Michigan school shooting could ultimately embolden prosecutors to criminalize parents when their kids commit a crime and set a kind of precedent that will hit minority parents the hardest, reports Bloomberg Law News.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 30, 2022

* September is coming: Here's a primer if you'd like to prepare for that whole law school thing. [ Remember the story about women in law schools breaking glass ceilings ? Might not be a coincidence that U-Michigan wasn't on the list. Michigan Daily ]. Michigan Daily ]. CT Examiner ]. STL Today ].

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JURIST

APRIL 14, 2021

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday joined the University of Michigan Law School’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative and the ACLU of Michigan in filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of Robert Williams , who was falsely arrested last year based on faulty facial recognition technology that has been banned in several cities throughout (..)

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

There will be some very high quality candidates who arent getting into any law school this yearbut the caliber of law students in this incoming class is going to be very high and really, really strong at all schools across the board. My guess is its a little bit of everything.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re serious about starting a career in law – say, become a lawyer, an attorney, or even a Supreme Court Judge – you’ll have to attend a college and university that offers the best law education. Fortunately, in the United States, there is a long list of schools that will help you become a successful law person.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Harvard Law Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote about the evidence presented against Harvard at trial, which makes a compelling case that, for example, Harvard used racial stereotypes about Asians in admissions evaluations.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Queens College President Frank Wu reflects on how Yale Kamisar’s teaching and guidance at the University of Michigan Law School emphasized a capacity to engage with alternative worldviews and the importance of the ability to argue for both sides of a debate.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2025

Andrew Hull rejoins the firm as a Director after 6 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Michigan. In 1980, we set out to create a world-class law firm focused on FDA, and 45 years later, Naomi, Andrew and Julie continue that tradition, said HPM founder Paul Hyman.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * Forbes is doing a lawyer ranking. Forbes ] * Reacting to Biglaw's open letter on campus antisemitism, law school deans "unsure, though, what the letter is asking the schools to do." Law360 ] * Michigan reportedly hiring Williams & Connolly in anticipation of Big Ten discipline.

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LawTechnologyToday

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we asked our panel to tell us about technology training and support. How do you keep abreast of the changes in the law and its practice, specifically with regard to the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology? WG: Law360 if the absolute best at keeping up with any changes in the law and practice.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After two years, drawn to environmental law by his love of camping and fishing, Minear left Texas for the University of Michigan Law School. He argued 56 cases before the court, specializing in environmental law, Native American issues, and cases under the court’s original jurisdiction. solicitor general’s office.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 3, 2025

On the one hand, it has been a long, long time since the Supreme Court last weighed in on this issue: Most readers would consider me an old man , I have been practicing for over 30 years, and I didnt even begin law school until the year after Perry was decided. That brings us to the upcoming conference. Relisted after the Jan.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Grutter involved the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions plan, which used race as part of individual, holistic consideration of applicants. Specifically, the petitioners argue that Grutter v.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, McCormack has become a leading champion of initiatives to enhance access to justice, both within Michigan and nationally. She is on the governing council of the American Bar Association Center for Innovation and is a strategic advisor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Future of the Profession Initiative.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JANUARY 18, 2018

Lansing, MI – On January 16, the State Bar of Michigan in conjunction with Legal Talk Network released their new podcast, On Balance. Janet Welch, executive director of the State Bar of Michigan, said of the podcast, “I thought this was a terrific new way to deliver really meaningful content to our members.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2024

I have long been critical of the erosion of free speech in Italy and other Western European countries, including the use of criminal libel laws against critics of the police or government. ” There are many in the United States, including Hillary Clinton , who want to replicate the anti-free speech laws in the United States.

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LawSites

MARCH 9, 2023

As discussed in yesterday’s part one , this post is the second in a three-part series of reflections on the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. Reinvent Law was there when we were all thinking, “Could we?”

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LawSites

MARCH 14, 2024

Possibly the best deal in legal tech conferences is LIT Con , the annual legal tech conference produced by Suffolk Law School’s Legal Innovation and Technology Lab and its Legal Innovation and Technology Institute. Even at full price, it is just $50. But you can sign up by tomorrow for just half that.

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LawSites

MARCH 8, 2023

Today, March 8, 2023, marks 10 years since Daniel Martin Katz , Renee Knake Jefferson and a group of colleagues and students from Michigan State University School of Law hosted ReInvent Law Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. This wasn’t just “another legal tech event.”

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. Her clinical teaching includes post-conviction, criminal defense, general civil practice, elder law and externship. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work. She serves as the project’s co-director.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 1, 2021

One of the American Bar Association’s core values is a commitment to diversity, which the Law Practice Division aims to reinforce in the legal tech sector. From tech founders and CEOs to small business owners, diverse legal professionals are making a big impact on law and technology in every field.

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Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

University of Michigan Law School (via Getty) It didn’t take long after SFFA v. FASORP is back, and this time they’re targeting Michigan Law. FASORP will also notify your future employers that your Law Review credential is tainted and should be disregarded.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 4, 2023

Others on the panel, which will be moderated by University of Chicago Law School professor Farah Peterson, will be Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, Yale University professor Akhil Amar, and University of Michigan law professor Evan Caminker.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

United States law has long rejected the notion that racism can be good or benign, and rightly so. Despite being the discriminatory school at issue in Grutter , for instance, Michigan Law School now engages in race-neutral admissions, and it boasts a sizable increase in the minority population of its student body since 2000.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 8, 2021

Michigan Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack shares why she’s optimistic there’s momentum for change to address unmet legal needs. McCormack tells former Washington State Bar Association President Patrick Palace about how she walked out of law school into an access-to-justice crisis. A moment with the most potential?

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The post Attorney Charged With Orchestrating Murder Of His Client appeared first on Above the Law. He also allegedly wrote himself into his client's will, without their knowledge.

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