Kathianne
08-08-2012, 05:07 PM
Actually law is not where most folks should be applying, the hiring and salaries are horrid. The costs of the education are beyond the earning power for most. This one school though, red flags abound:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/08/st-louis.html
St. Louis Law School Dean Resigns Abruptly, Blasts University Administration http://taxprof.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4eab53ef0176171a3626970c-150wi (http://taxprof.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4eab53ef0176171a3626970c-popup)After only one year as Dean at St. Louis University School of Law, Annette Clark (http://www.slu.edu/colleges/law/slulaw/faculty/aclark43) resigned today and released two remarkable letters. Here is the letter to the university president and vice-president (http://www.scribd.com/doc/102367564/SLU-Law-Dean-Annette-E-Clark-Resignation-Letter-8-8-12):
I resign my deanship at Saint Louis University School of Law, effective immediately. For the present, I will remain a tenured full professor on the law school faculty as is my contractual right. I no longer have confidence in either of your abilities to lead this institution or in your commitment to the well-being of the School of Law. ...
Through these and many other acts I could list, you have failed to make good on your assurances to me when I accepted the deanship that you would fully support the law school and our efforts to enhance its program of legal education, national reputation and rankings. From the beginning of my deanship, you have evinced hostility toward the law school and its faculty and have treated me dismissively and with disrespect, issuing orders and edicts that allowed me virtually no opportunity to exercise the very discretion, judgment and experience for which you and the faculty enthusiastically hired me. You have not consulted me on important matters involving the law school’s interests, you have failed to honor commitments that I had assured the faculty you would keep, and you have accused me of being uncooperative and not being a team player when I have objected to these actions.
It is the ultimate irony that a Jesuit university would operate so far outside the bounds of common decency, collegiality, professionalism and integrity. I simply cannot be part of, and I assure you I will not be complicit with, an administration that can’t be trusted to act honestly and in the best interests of its faculty, staff and students. I therefore resign my deanship in the School of Law...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/08/st-louis.html
St. Louis Law School Dean Resigns Abruptly, Blasts University Administration http://taxprof.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4eab53ef0176171a3626970c-150wi (http://taxprof.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4eab53ef0176171a3626970c-popup)After only one year as Dean at St. Louis University School of Law, Annette Clark (http://www.slu.edu/colleges/law/slulaw/faculty/aclark43) resigned today and released two remarkable letters. Here is the letter to the university president and vice-president (http://www.scribd.com/doc/102367564/SLU-Law-Dean-Annette-E-Clark-Resignation-Letter-8-8-12):
I resign my deanship at Saint Louis University School of Law, effective immediately. For the present, I will remain a tenured full professor on the law school faculty as is my contractual right. I no longer have confidence in either of your abilities to lead this institution or in your commitment to the well-being of the School of Law. ...
Through these and many other acts I could list, you have failed to make good on your assurances to me when I accepted the deanship that you would fully support the law school and our efforts to enhance its program of legal education, national reputation and rankings. From the beginning of my deanship, you have evinced hostility toward the law school and its faculty and have treated me dismissively and with disrespect, issuing orders and edicts that allowed me virtually no opportunity to exercise the very discretion, judgment and experience for which you and the faculty enthusiastically hired me. You have not consulted me on important matters involving the law school’s interests, you have failed to honor commitments that I had assured the faculty you would keep, and you have accused me of being uncooperative and not being a team player when I have objected to these actions.
It is the ultimate irony that a Jesuit university would operate so far outside the bounds of common decency, collegiality, professionalism and integrity. I simply cannot be part of, and I assure you I will not be complicit with, an administration that can’t be trusted to act honestly and in the best interests of its faculty, staff and students. I therefore resign my deanship in the School of Law...