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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The Charleston School of Law has worked its way off one U.S. Department of Education naughty list and is in the process of being removed from another, according to the school’s president. During 2014 to 2015, the DOE gave the ...

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Both of South Carolina’s law schools posted lower pass rates for February’s bar exam than they did last year, and graduates of out-of-state institutions stole the show in the Palmetto State’s first administration of the Uniform Bar Exam. Since the ...

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As it crawls out from beneath the thumb of InfiLaw, the Charleston School of Law faces a new threat to its future: the loss of federal financial aid due to graduates’ debt loads and comparatively meager incomes. The U.S. Department ...

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The Charleston School of Law has filed paperwork seeking approval from the American Bar Association for its planned transition to a nonprofit school, beginning a process that, if successful, will lead to the exit of two of the school’s controversial ...

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