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Here’s How Much Johnny Sutton is Billing in UT Law Alleged Pay Fraud Case

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Former U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, now working in private practice in Austin, was hired to investigate alleged fraudulent activities by a former employee of the University of Texas School of Law. Texas Lawyer used the Texas Public Information Act request to get a copy of the legal contract for the lawyer that the University of …

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Three Texas Law Schools Continue Upward Climb in US News Ranking

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The latest law school rankings by U.S. News & World Report might be causing three Texas law schools to jump for joy, and three others to shake their heads. Three schools have enjoyed an upward trend in the rankings over the past three years. They include Baylor University School of Law in Waco, Texas A&M University School …

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One Texas Law School Is Doing the Heavy Lifting When It Comes to Diversity Efforts

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Texas legal educators are striving to recruit racially and ethnically diverse law students, but there’s one law school that’s excelling hand-over-fist compared to the others. With 91 percent of its current students hailing from minority racial and ethnic backgrounds, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law takes the top spot when it comes to a diverse …

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Open Records Reveal Personality Clashes, Power Struggle at Thurgood Marshall

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One of Texas’s public law schools has reeled during the past year under the stress of a censure from the nation’s law school accreditor, exacerbated by personality clashes between leaders of the law school and central university. A series of bad publicity has unveiled problems within Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. The …

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Justice Sotomayor Visiting Houston to Discuss Legal Education

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is visiting Houston on Jan. 26 to answer law students’ questions about her life story and sit down with a law professor for a talk about the role of legal education. Sotomayor’s visit to the University of Houston Law Center will put her face to face with law and …

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Don’t Know What Blockchain Is? You Should. This Law Prof Can Help.

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Bitcoin. Ethereum. Blockchain. It sounds like a foreign language, clouded in mystery. But with billions of dollars flowing through cryptocurrency systems, and governments and major companies looking to blockchain technology to reform a wide variety of critical record-keeping systems, law students and lawyers need to get up to speed. Even with great change brewing, only …

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ABA Fines, Publicly Censures Law School

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Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law was publicly censured and must pay $15,000 for not complying with an American Bar Association standard that prohibits schools from discriminating against faculty members. In the public censure, the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar also found Thurgood Marshall Law violated an ABA …

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