Kansas' Unauthorized LL.M. Program Draws ABA Censure

Headlines • Kansas' Unauthorized LL.M. Program Draws ABA Censure • Mattel Must Pay $137M for Foe's Legal Fees and Costs • CFPB, 49 States Win $2B in Relief for Homeowners • SMU's Next Law Dean Has Administrative Background • Notable Supreme Court Books of 2013 • Support for Death Penalty Slipping, Organization Finds • Lawsuit: Retailer Wrecked Couple's Credit Over Bad Review • Circuit Tosses Attorney Fees Award in Prius Litigation • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Kansas' Unauthorized LL.M. Program Draws ABA Censure The University of Kansas School of Law must pay a $50,000 fine for admitting two foreign attorneys into a new LL.M. program that the American Bar Association had not approved. Read More » Mattel Must Pay $137M for Foe's Legal Fees and Costs In the battle of the fashion dolls, Barbie manufacturer Mattel Inc. must pay $137 million in attorney fees and costs to MGA Entertainment Inc., maker of Bratz, under a federal judge's ruling. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John's Flexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops. Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian CFPB, 49 States Win $2B in Relief for Homeowners Citing "systemic misconduct at every stage of the mortgage servicing process," the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 49 states and the District of Columbia will require one of the country's largest mortgage loan servicers to provide $2.1 billion in relief to struggling homeowners. Read More » SMU's Next Law Dean Has Administrative Background Southern Methodist University has named Wake Forest University Vice Provost Jennifer Collins as the next dean of its Dedman School of Law. Collins, who has also taught law at Wake Forest since 2003, will assume the SMU deanship in July. Read More » Notable Supreme Court Books of 2013 Justices read books as well as briefs. Their recommendations are worth following as guidance for gifts for the Supreme Court aficionado in your life. Read More » Support for Death Penalty Slipping, Organization Finds In 2013, public support for the death penalty inched down; executions decreased and the number of death penalty states declined, according to an annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center. Read More » Lawsuit: Retailer Wrecked Couple's Credit Over Bad Review As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, Public Citizen is hauling an online retailer into Utah federal court over some allegedly Grinch-like behavior. Read More » Circuit Tosses Attorney Fees Award in Prius Litigation The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has again struck down an award of attorney fees in a class action settlement, this time over allegedly defective headlights in Toyota Prius vehicles. Read More » Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. Read More »

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