Class Action Lawsuits Now Target More Than a Dozen Law Schools

NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A threatened wave of class actions against American law schools became a reality last week after plaintiffs' lawyers sued a dozen more schools over their allegedly ...

Law Schools Sued for Lying About Lawyering

It’s not exactly Darth Vader versus Obi-Wan Kenobi, but lawyers Jesse Strauss, David Anziska, and Frank Raimond have similarly completed the circle: Once, they were the learners; now, with a new series of lawsuits against fourteen law schools, they are threatening to take down their former masters. The saga began last year, when Strauss and Anziska, both veterans of corporate legal work, filed ...

Graduates sue local law schools over job data

How many consumer decisions are made based on a pitch, a testimonial or a company claim? Law schools use post-graduate employment numbers to attract students--and those statistics have gotten some schools in trouble. Chicago's John Marshall Law School is among more than a dozen facing class action lawsuits claiming they used inflated job numbers to get more people to enroll. Staci Zaretsky, an ...

Detroit schools, law enforcement push truancy crackdown

Public school officials and law enforcement officers are performing the first truancy sweep of the year today.

Law proposal: Schools fill funding gaps

A Clayton lawmaker worked to shake up the way that Montgomery County schools are funded.