Law schools set aside 30% quota for girls.
Byline: SEETHALAKSHMI S BANGALORE: Parliament may be dilly-dallying on bringing 33% reservation for women. But premier national law schools in the country will implement a 30% quota for girls keen to pursue law, from the academic year 2008-09. The seven premier law schools in the country have...

Clinton nominee takes aim at law schools; Guinier says Socratic method biased.
Byline: Mark Melady WORCESTER - Harvard law professor Lani Guinier, once labeled a "quota queen" whose nomination to head the nation's civil rights office was famously withdrawn by President Clinton, has taken aim at the Socratic teaching method used in most law schools that she claims favors...

Cite unseen: how neutral citation and America's law schools can cure our strange devotion to bibliographical orthodoxy and the constriction of open and equal access to the law.
I. INTRODUCTION There can be fewer subjects less inviting on their face than a discussion of legal bibliographical practice. Citation itself is neither scholarship nor analysis but is the mere act of recording a supporting source's location; (1) the quintessence of form with no intrinsic substance at...

Recruiting banned at law schools.
Since this report was prepared, a lawsuit filed by a group of law schools and professors won a ruling by an appeals court in Philadelphia that the federal law that forces law schools to allow military recruiters on campus is an unconstitutional violation of schools First Amendment rights. A...

Law schools lose.
Byline: The Register-Guard American law schools got their clocks cleaned by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, but even though they lost the legal battle, they were right to oppose the U.S. military's disgraceful "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Justices ruled unanimously that if the...

After MBAs and techies, law graduates move abroad.
Byline: Dibeyendu Ganguly MUMBAI: First it was the IIMs and IITs. Now, it's the turn of India's premier law schools to export talent abroad. At the National Law School, Bangalore, 20 out of the 65 students who have applied for campus placements this year are joining foreign...

Aspiring lawyers to take test today.
BANGALORE: Nearly 12,000 students who aspire to get into the best law schools in the country will take up the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) on Sunday. Admit cards have been sent to the students. Candidates who haven't received the card can print it out from the...

Law schools & the military: don't ask, don't tell, don't recruit.
The First Amendment's protection of "freedom of speech" is about more than just speech. Courts and commentators agree, for example, that the freedom to speak includes a freedom not to speak, and that just as the government may not punish us for professing our love of country, it may...

Law firms hike salaries to retain talent as foreign cos troop in.
Byline: Paramita Chatterjee (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##) NEW DELHI: With top foreign law firms like Clifford Chance and Allen and Overy stocking up on Indian talent, salaries in Indian law firms are hitting the roof. Fearing attrition in the industry, large domestic law firms including Amarchand...

Law firms fight attrition with fatter paychecks & mid-term hikes.
Byline: Paramita Chatterjee NEW DELHI: These may still be early days for foreign law firms to set foot in India, but they sure are shaking up the legal fraternity here. Top foreign law firms like Clifford Chance and Allen and Overy are stocking up on Indian talent,...