When Pepperdine University’s School of Law needed a new dean in 2011, it found someone equal parts jurist and academic. Deanell Reece Tacha had served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 1986 and as Chief Judge from 2001 through 2007. She was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and in 2006, Chief Justice John Roberts named her to the Conference’s Executive Committee. Continue reading
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Mitchel L. Winick’s double-barreled title – president and dean, Monterey College of Law – neatly encapsulates both his responsibilities and the law school’s academic/work-world nature. A California state-accredited nonprofit, Monterey Law’s four-year evening program has historically served up an affordable legal education to working professionals. Even the faculty comprises practicing lawyers and judges. Winick regularly lauds them as bringing real-life experience and perspective to their classes. Continue reading
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Rachel Moran, dean of the U.C.L.A. School of Law, has been immersed in education policy, civil rights, race and the law from the start of her academic career. Continue reading
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This is not another story about how the shrinking job market for attorneys makes enrolling in law school a bad idea.
The market for lawyers is growing, and the federal government predicts it will continue to do so – at about the same speed as the overall labor market.
The problem isn’t demand, but an oversupply. In the past 10 years, growth in attorney positions has been far outstripped by the number of graduates earning law degrees. A significant portion of those gains is outside large law firms, which means they don’t come with the high salaries some graduates count on to pay for their educations. Continue reading
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Law School: Georgetown University Law Center
Name: Brandon Stone
Class: L’15
Practice area interests: Technology law and women’s human rights
Undergraduate degree/major: BA, Economics
Undergraduate institution/year: Ohio State University (with honors) 2004
Other: Officer, U.S. Navy, SEAL
Training institution: U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School/Naval Special Warfare Center
Home city/town, state: Juneau, AK (Alaska)
Brandon Stone received a standing ovation when he spoke at Georgetown Law’s 2013 Veterans Day Program, honoring those who have served in the military. Stone, a second-year student in the J.D. program at Georgetown Law, graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 2004 and joined the U.S. Navy. Upon his commissioning at Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Fla., he transferred to the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif., where he trained to become a SEAL officer. He later transferred to a SEAL Team in Virginia Beach, Va. Continue reading
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Maureen O’Rourke may be her own best example of where preparation and prescience can take technology-savvy lawyers. The dean of Boston University School of Law, O’Rourke was among the first to immerse herself in the crosscurrents of the Internet and copyright law. She literally co-wrote the book “Copyright in a Global Information Economy,” one of the leading U.S. casebooks on the subject.
O’Rourke began her career as an attorney at IBM Corp. in 1990, working on software licensing, before joining the BU Law faculty in 1993. She helped supervise the student-run “Journal of Science and Technology Law” and won the school’s highest teaching honor – the Metcalf Award – in 2000. She became the dean in 2006 after two years as interim dean.
Not surprisingly, she sets as an imperative ensuring that BU law students have “transferable skills and an entrepreneurial spirit” as technology torques the practice of law.
O’Rourke, who completed her legal studies at Yale Law School, was among the first deans to answer a series of questions that Lawdragon is asking all law school deans in the U.S. as part of our new website devoted to legal education, which is launching this month. Continue reading
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