It was a good week for…
Rebounding, after The University of Kansas School of Law reported a 19 percent increase in applications for 2012. The state school had seen applications the year before drop from 1,120 to 819 in 2011. The number climbed up this year to 973, despite the fact that applications across the country fell by 13.7 percent in 2012. Out of 198 ABA-accredited law schools, Kansas was one of only 11 schools that had a double-digit percentage increase in applications.
Robbers, after Shon Hopwood, a man convicted of robbing banks in Nebraska, began his second year of law school at the University of Washington. Hopwood, who spent 10 years in federal prison for robbing five prisons, also was awarded a full-scholarship through the Gates Scholarship Program. In addition to becoming a lawyer, he is a published book author after recently writing a personal memoir called “Law Man,” which was published by Crown Publishing.
It was a bad week for…
Staying politically objective, after an assistant dean at the University of Miami School of Law encouraged students to vote to retain Florida judges in November’s merit retention election. William VanderWyden, assistant dean for professional development, sent an email to the law school’s entire student body encouraging them to vote yes on retaining state Supreme Court Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince because he said it is what lawyers must do. Watchdog.org learned about the email after concerns were raised by school and community members that the email could violate portions of the school’s faculty handbook on political advocacy and advertising. VanderWyden has since sent the student body list serve of about 1,220 students an apology.
