He's lucky he didn't get immediately expelled from law school. Most graduate programs expell students for plagerism no matter how high or low a student's grades or class ranking.
Yep. Happened to one of my classmates when I was getting an MA at U of Chicago. Took a paragraph (and much of his ideas) from a five year old article on Salvadorean economic development. Our prof had an incredible memory and busted him. The kid wound up at University of Maryland, I believe.