The Charleston School of Law is suing the city of Charleston for allegedly going back on its word to allow the law school to sell a property at the school’s first location on Meeting Street.  The city acquired the property ...

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Dean Larry Cunningham was full of apologies after running a few minutes late to a meeting. A group of Charleston School of Law students had surprised him last-minute by dropping off a handful of handwritten thank you cards, expressing their ...

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Charleston School of Law is preparing to become the first free law school in the nation.  “When I started, my goal was to reduce our tuition to where our students wouldn’t have such a high student loan when they got ...

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Charleston School of Law Dean Andy Abrams will retire in May , the school has announced. Abrams will remain on the faculty as dean emeritus and will return to the classroom and resume his teaching on a full-time basis as ...

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For today’s generation of aspiring law students, a career in the law is less about making a buck, and more about making an impact, a new study suggests. According to a survey conducted by Gallup for the Association of American ...

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Rumors of drunken depravity have been bubbling up in the aftermath of the Charleston School of Law’s recent Barrister’s Ball at the South Carolina Aquarium. Talk of tanked students urinating in the otter tank during the ball — along with ...

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The University of South Carolina and Charleston law schools combined for a 37.3 percent pass rate on the most recent bar exam, each continuing its recent February slide. Forty-three USC grads sat for the exam; 18 passed. The 41.86 percent ...

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With a growing number of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Exam in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test, surely there is an easy way for admissions committees to equate GRE scores with LSAT scores. According to the Educational ...

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The new U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are out, and though there was some significant, scattered shuffling from top to bottom, South Carolina’s two law schools stayed put. The University of South Carolina School of Law remained ...

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Last year, fired Charleston School of Law professor Billy Want was pretty happy with the way the school and its new president were working to smooth things over with faculty members who’d gotten the ax during more contentious times. Want ...

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