Nation's Law Schools See Lowest Enrollment Since 1975

Headlines • Nation's Law Schools See Lowest Enrollment Since 1975 • Bill Banning Credit Checks for New Workers Introduced • Baltimore Ravens, NFL Prevail in Fight over 'Flying B' Logo • Ruling Clears Way for Claims Over Botched Facebook IPO • Arbitration Clause Applies to Legal Malpractice Claim • VOIR DIRE: Charges Won't Stick • General Counsel Gear Up to Follow Volcker Rule • Danger in Disarming Military Justice • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Nation's Law Schools See Lowest Enrollment Since 1975 According to figures released by the American Bar Association, law schools enrolled 39,675 new students this fall—an 11 percent decrease from the 44,481 students who enrolled last fall. Read More » Bill Banning Credit Checks for New Workers Introduced Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would bar almost all private employers—but not the federal government—from running pre-employment credit checks on prospective new hires, calling it "an issue of basic fairness." 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 Baltimore Ravens, NFL Prevail in Fight over 'Flying B' Logo A federal appeals court has deemed the National Football League's use of the fan-created "Flying B" logo in three videos and the Baltimore Ravens' use of it in stadium exhibits "fair use," closing two chapters of an acrimonious, 16-year copyright fight. Read More » Ruling Clears Way for Claims Over Botched Facebook IPO Shareholder claims against Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. over Facebook Inc.'s botched IPO will move forward after a federal judge found that the exchange was not immune from liability over the technical glitches that occurred that day. Read More » Arbitration Clause Applies to Legal Malpractice Claim Maine law firm Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson's contract requiring a former client to arbitrate all claims applies to malpractice claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled. Read More » VOIR DIRE: Charges Won't Stick A Kentucky woman hit with a $56 traffic ticket for driving a van cluttered with political stickers, snow globes and other paraphernalia has a clean slate. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » General Counsel Gear Up to Follow Volcker Rule General counsel at U.S. financial institutions last week began the arduous task of figuring out how to comply with the Volcker Rule — a complex, 978-page rule that imposes new regulatory tasks on companies. Read More » Danger in Disarming Military Justice Stripping commanding officers of power won't solve the military's sexual assault scourge. 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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