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Employment prospects improve for Md.’s law school grads
The percentage of Maryland law graduates who found jobs requiring them to pass the bar has remained steady for another year, inching up by just 0.8 percentage points to 58 percent, compared with 62.4 percent nationwide. There are signs of improvement in the annual employment data gathered and released by the American Bar Association, however: […]
New incubator program assists fledgling solo practitioners
Maya Zegarra graduated last year from the University of Baltimore School of Law and wants to practice immigration law, specifically humanitarian cases representing those seeking visas, special immigrant juvenile status or other means of remaining in the U.S. “I know how hard it is and how traumatic of an experience it can be, and I […]
UB Law moves up in U.S. News rankings; UM Carey holds steady
For the second year in a row, the University of Baltimore School of Law has risen in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Law Schools ranking, reaching No. 111 after climbing nearly 25 spots in two years. The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, meanwhile, held its ground as a top-50 […]
Maryland sees lowest July bar exam passage rate since 1997
Just 63 percent of those who took the Maryland bar exam in July passed the test, the lowest summer passage rate in the state in 18 years. RELATED: See who passed the test here. Both of the state’s law schools also saw a smaller portion of graduates pass the test this year, the first in […]
New UM Carey Law course to examine ‘Freddie Gray’s Baltimore’
As the director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Health and Homeland Security, law professor Michael Greenberger has taught courses on emergency management and advised government agencies on how to prepare for crises. But for a new course on the civil unrest that broke out in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray this […]
MSBA panel: Law grads must adapt to new employment realities
At a panel that aimed to address “the new reality” for law schools and their graduates, deans of the two local schools shared their strategies for helping law students navigate the legal job market and highlighted a joint legal incubator set to launch this fall. One of the main ways law schools are changing to […]
Fellowships for law grads will offer experience in the corporate world
Through a partnership with four locally based companies, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law will offer graduates the opportunity to apply their legal knowledge to the business world. The new year-long, postgraduate business fellowship program shares some qualities with judicial clerkship programs, said UM Carey Law Dean Donald Tobin, but is […]
More Maryland law grads finding jobs, but still below national average
The percentage of Maryland law graduates who found jobs requiring a law degree ticked up this year but still lags behind the national trend, according to recently released American Bar Association data. Of the 610 members of the 2014 graduating classes at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law, 57.2 percent were employed ten month[...]
UB Law moves up in U.S. News rankings
After several years of falling in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Law Schools” ranking, the University of Baltimore School of Law regained 13 spots this year, moving from No. 135 to No. 122. “I’ve always been skeptical of the U.S. News methodology, but there are some objective criteria that are very valid measures, […]
UM Carey Law adds cybersecurity, patent law to MSL program
The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law has expanded its new Master of Science in Law program to include specializations in patent law and cybersecurity, bringing the number of options to five. The MSL program, set to launch this fall, is designed to give nonlawyer professionals a deeper understanding of the way […]
ABA passes new law school standards
Law schools across the country will have to meet new standards to keep their accreditation, after the American Bar Association's House of Delegates approved a series of reforms..
Editorial Advisory Board: Changing of the guard at UM Carey Law
Phoebe Haddon is leaving the Deanship at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law after five successful years. The success of those years can be measured in part by the new name of the school—the Francis King Carey name has been added as a result of a $30 million bequest, at the time the largest gift ever received by an American law school.
