The George Washington University Law School is the latest to drop its enrollment as fewer people applied to law school for the upcoming academic year.

GW Law plans to keep its enrollment below 450, compared to this year’s class of 474, the National Law Journal reports.

Law schools across the country are grappling with upcoming fall enrollment in the face of the declining number of people taking the LSAT and even fewer applying to law school.

The University of California Hastings College of the Law announced this year that it also plans to decrease enrollment. Albany Law School, Creighton University School of Law and Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center also reduced class sizes during the 2011-2012 school year.

GW Law saw its number of applicants fall 15 percent, Law Dean Paul Schiff Berman told the Journal. It will lose some tuition revenue but plans to recoup it in increased fundraising and introducing new programs for students outside the law school, Berman said.

Baltimore schools are experiencing the similar problems. The University of Baltimore School of Law told The Daily Record  in March that its applicant numbers were down 17 percent this admissions cycle, but University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law officials were less concerned.

April showers are about to bring May flowers, but a Monday always brings you the blog roundup. Here are some tidbits as you prepare to celebrate Law Day:

-A Georgia lawyer traded pills for a peep show with female prison inmates.

-American Lawyer released its list of highest-grossing firms.

-A Washington, D.C., lawyer reached his goal of swimming in 50 states before he turned 50.

-A Duke University School of Law student tried to get an answer to a question on his Constitutional Law exam by posting it on the Internet.

Laura Gayle Hoffman, you’re one in 1,088.

Your name wasn’t on the list the Board of Law Examiners sent us, but the board rectified that omission with a very nice e-mail after seeing Monday’s paper — and, after hearing from you, perhaps? No matter. The correction is in Thursday’s paper. The corrected list is available here, along with a new headline: “Board Recommends 1,088 for Admission to Bar.”

Congratulations to you — every last one of you.

Take it easy during final exams, law students. According to a New York Times story from 1900, linked to by blogger Josh Blackman, a Harvard Law School student died “of an abscess on the brain caused by overstudy.”

Thornton was one of the hardest working students in the Law School, and as this was his last year he had been applying himself with unusual vigor. A few days ago he was taking the examination in Constitutional law when suddenly in the midst of the examination he became insane, and waving his hands wildly, cried out a number of unintelligible sentences. His condition became rapidly worse, and he died this afternoon.

Something about this just doesn’t ring true to me. Wait, is it the absolutely ridiculous-sounding diagnosis that this poor man died of thinking too hard? Well, maybe that’s part of it. But that’s not what’s really bugging me about this scenario. No, I know what it is: the idea of a 3L busting his butt for final exams.

HT: Volokh Conspiracy.

Good afternoon. Here are some Web nuggets to nosh on to help fight that case of the Mondays:

Bryan Sears with the Patuxent newspapers reports on a pair of Baltimore County lawyers who might exert some influence on next year’s County Council races.

The issues surrounding concussions and football players are not just in the sports headlines anymore – they’re appearing on law school finals.

If you’re looking for gag gift this holiday season, might I suggest this?

A writer to “Annie’s Mailbox” seeks help getting a 47-year-old lawyer friend to move out of her parents’ home. (HT: Above the Law.)

C-SPAN’s “America and the Courts” series focuses on the role of the U.S. Solicitor General in its most recent installment. Opening remarks given by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. (HT: How Appealing.)

Anyone who’s gone to law school in the past five years or so knows the Internet-fueled distraction of the final exams period when it’s just you, some books and a computer for days at a time. Read outline. Check Facebook. Read outline. Refresh gossip blog. Read outline. Write e-mail to the law school listserv about your pet rock.

Ok, so some people get more batty than others. Or should I say, catty. Above the Law reports that law students at the University of Maryland started sending fake e-mails about pet-sitting after a visiting professor and two students solicited cat-sitters on the student listserv.

One student wrote:

Hey everyone-

I swear this is the last one of these. I’ve got this pet rock, George, that will need taking care of while I’m out of the country for a few months. He’s a 19 lb. granite rock that I pasted a mustache and googly eyes on, and I’m sure he’ll fall in love with whoever is kind enough to take care of him. He’s easy going—don’t worry about leaving him alone for a few hours at a time. My only request is that you fill his water bowl three times a day, and take him outside for fresh air in the morning and before his bed time, which is typically 7:30—I always let him watch Jeopardy with me! Of course, I’ll provide his bed, calcium pills, mustache comb, and extra glue (just in case).

After “Cat Lady” responded with her post about her 17 cats that need a sitter, another student responded as if she were law school dean Phoebe Haddon, saying, “I can understand a come-back e-mail, but if you’re going to risk your academic standing, at least make it funny.”

She ended with the disclaimer:

- this email was made for the express intent of scaring the crap out of the abovementioned individuals, and to show that law students can be funny but you, unfortunately, are not.

Ouch. Apparently we’ve moved beyond the good old bar exam lolcat for entertainment.

Law students: what else is going on over at UM law? Lawyers: what did you do during finals time?