DOJ Threatens ABA With Antitrust Probe Over… Adjunct Professors

DOJ Threatens ABA With Antitrust Probe Over… Adjunct Professors

The ABA folded on diversity, so the Trump admin is moving the goalposts to the faculty lounge.

Trump DOJ escalates war on lawyers’ group over top official’s side gig: WSJ

A top Trump Justice Department official is threatening the nation's biggest lawyers' group over a rule he says crimps his side job.Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the DOJ's third-ranking official, warned the American Bar Association in an October 7 letter that it could face an antitrust investigation if it doesn't loosen limits on part-time law professors, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.Woodward, who has been an adjunct la…

DOJ warns ABA “monopoly” over faculty restrictions

The Department of Justice has cautioned the American Bar Association that its law school accreditation standards may constitute a per se market allocation conspiracy between full-time and adjunct professors.