Perennially
embattled
Cooley
Law
School
once
again
called
out
by
the
ABA
over
sagging
bar
passage
rates.
The
school
has
been
out
of
compliance
with
ABA
standards
since
2020,
and
now
finds
itself
on
probation
with
its
accreditor.
And
that
matters
because
law
schools
that
take
student
money
and
then
don’t
set
them
up
for
a
career
are
failing
those
students.
The
last
time
something
like
this
happened,
Cooley
sued
the
ABA
into
relenting.
History
is
a
flat
circle.
After
learning
that
Paul
Weiss
and
Kirkland
were
providing
free
legal
services
to
the
Commerce
Department,
presumably
in
an
effort
to
satisfy
their
pro
bono
payola
obligations,
we
wondered
how
this
could
possibly
be
legal
in
light
of
31
U.S.C.
1342.
Apparently,
lawmakers
wondered
the
same
thing.
And
James
Comey
finds
himself
indicted
after
a
whirlwind
that
involved
removing
the
existing
top
federal
prosecutor
for
refusing
to
file
a
sham
case
and
replacing
him
with
an
in-over-her-head
Florida
insurance
lawyer.