Tag: Larry Kramer

It's nice to have a legal luminary on your side when trying to post bail.

Stanford Law School has a new dean. Who will be filling Larry Kramer's shoes?

A leading law school announces that it's not following the Law Clerk Hiring Plan -- and explains why.

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Dean Larry Kramer of Stanford Law is stepping down at the end of the summer. What will he be doing next?

I think we’ve all been waiting for this. Last Wednesday, we picked up a report from the Stanford Daily announcing that students at Stanford Law School would be looking at a 5.75% tuition hike for the 2011 – 2012 academic year. That’s significantly larger than the 3.5% tuition hike for the rest of the university. […]

Late last month, we posed a question: Can Stanford overtake Harvard and Yale and become the #1 law school? We consulted our Magic 8 Ball, which gave this answer: “Outlook Not So Good.” And it’s not just the Magic 8 Ball. Professor Bill Henderson, one of the leading academics studying the legal profession, constructed a […]

Hello, West Coast readers! How’s it hangin’ out there past the Rockies? Here at Above the Law, we try to overcome any suggestion of East Coast bias by consistently publishing a post later in the day for our readers in the Pacific time zone. And we try to be generally aware of West Coast firms […]