It was a BAD week for…
… Long-term partnerships after the ABA unexpectedly announced it will cut NALP out of the employment data collection process. The ABA decided at a recent meeting of its legal education section that it will start to collect post-graduate employment information directly from law schools rather than through NALP. NALP says the move puts them at a tremendous disadvantage for data collection efforts, and the organization has even hinted it may sue the ABA if it attempts to use NALP’s research and survey in developing its own survey.
…Mercer Law School after Macon, Georgia police arrested one recent law grad and charged him with the murder of another Mercer law alum. Stephen Mark McDaniel had been named as a person of interest in the investigation into the death of his neighbor and fellow Mercer grad Lauren Giddings. McDaniel was then arrested on unrelated burglary charges so was already imprisoned when police formally charged him with Giddings’ murder. Giddings was at Mercer studying for the bar earlier this summer when she went missing. Her dismembered body was found five days later, wrapped in plastic in a garbage bin.
It was a GOOD week for…
… older law professors, after an Iowa trial court denied the University of Iowa College of Law’s motion for summary judgment in an age discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed by Donald Dobkin, 56, a professor at Central Michigan University and partner at a Michigan immigration law firm. Dobkin responded to an ad posted by Iowa for an administrative and immigration law professor, but was not invited for an interview for the position. Dobkin alleges Iowa illegally favored younger professors with less experience for the position.
