Daniel Keating was interim dean twice before, including in fall 2005 before Syverud started at the school.

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Washington University Law Dean Kent D. Syverud is leaving to become chancellor and president of Syracuse University.

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Nationally, applications to American Bar Association-approved schools were down nearly 18 percent this year.

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Many new partners at law firms in Missouri have at least this much in common: A degree from one of the state’s four law schools.

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One person’s protest mural is one city’s illegal sign. Lawyers for activist Jim Roos and the city of St. Louis were before a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday morning arguing about the constitutionality of the city’s sign code.

Pictured here, Roos, left, and his lawyer, Michael Bindas, share a laugh after arguments outside Washington University School of Law, where Wednesday's arguments were held.

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Missouri schools are graduating more JDs than ever, but fewer people are taking the state’s bar exam. That should alleviate some concern in the legal profession that lawyers will flood Missouri’s market and make it harder for new lawyers to ...

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Forget $50 an hour paychecks and swanky dinners in metropolitan hot spots - for some Washington University Law students, credit hour fees and ivy-covered walls frame the reality of their summer associate experiences this year.

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Jurists, scholars and experts converged on Washington University School of Law this week to work on a treaty condemning and prohibiting crimes against humanity. The effort is part of the law school’s Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute’s Crimes Against ...

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Washington University School of Law’s Clinical Affairs Program will host its 9th annual “Access to Equal Justice Colloquium: Critical Perspectives on Court and Law Reform,” featuring Jane M. Spinak, a law professor at Columbia University. The goal of the conference ...

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2009 is expected to be a tough year for law firms. The economic turbulence brought on by the credit crisis caused corporations to tighten their belts, leading to less work for lawyers in such traditional corporate areas as mergers & ...

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