Two 2023 Notre Dame Law School graduates are beginning their post-grad careers as Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest fellows, addressing housing issues and providing expungement relief in Chicago and rural Kentucky.
Amid national pushback from law schools refusing to actively participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings, the 2024 rankings released last week showed slight changes for each of Indiana’s three law schools using a reformed methodology.
When the Japanese Ministry of Justice told Nakamura to travel to Notre Dame Law School to conduct research and learn about head trauma cases, the Japanese prosecutor simply packed up and went.
The graduating law school classes of 2023 will participate in commencement ceremonies starting next month across the state.
Indiana University Maurer School of Law Dean Christiana Ochoa said those who want to do away with requiring law school admission tests for diversity’s sake have it backward. And she is not alone.
As the national conversation around student loan debt continues, law students are seeing their student loan debt rise. Against that backdrop, Indiana’s law schools are taking steps to help their students handle their debt post-graduation.
The American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar recently released pass rates for first-time test takers in 2022, showing a 9 percentage point drop from 2020 and a slightly smaller decline from 2019 before the pandemic.
Most school projects are produced for an audience of one: the professor who assigned the work. But Jacob Purcell, a 2L at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, has just published a rental housing report that’s intended for a much wider audience.
Walking out into the cold Minnesota winter air after nearly 25 years in prison wasn’t something Thomas Rhodes thought would happen. But thanks in part to a recent Notre Dame Law School grad, that’s just what Rhodes did.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the high court’s historically slow start to releasing opinions.
Notre Dame Law School announced last week a new fellowship for early-career attorneys interested in incorporating the Christian faith into the practice of law.
Revisions promised by U.S. News and World Report to how it calculates law school rankings do not appear to have reduced the animosity many law schools feel toward the rankings.
The law school Class of 2022 contributed more than $80 million worth of pro bono services as part of their legal education, new data show, including contributions from each of Indiana’s three law schools.
Studies have shown there’s a need for more Hoosier attorneys — especially in the public sector and in rural areas — but it appears the decline isn’t because new lawyers are leaving the state after turning their tassels.
Notre Dame Law School Dean Marcus Cole and John Hauber, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Indiana Southern District, will be among the 39 new fellows inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy in March 2023.
The American Bar Association’s proposed change from “shall” to “may” could signal an end to the LSAT.
As the former dean of Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Gary Roberts remembers well what happened when he quit participating in U.S. News & World Report’s annual law school rankings: absolutely nothing. Consequently, whether the current revolt against the rankings will cause some kind of reaction is unknown.
Four students who are interested in studying the law and religion have been selected to participate in a new Notre Dame Law School fellowship addressing both areas of study.
The July 2022 bar exam brought more of the same with an overall pass rate of 68%, a slight dip from last year and comparable to the mid-summer licensing tests given before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana is hitting the road again this week as a panel prepares to hear oral arguments at Notre Dame Law School in a case concerning the use of arsenic to treat a home’s exterior.