Fall 2023 had a slight increase in JD enrollment but a small decrease of first-year students over the previous year, according to data released Friday by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Updated: After 15 years of noncompliance issues, the State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners made “a first-of-its kind move” by withdrawing the Peoples College of Law’s registration and terminating its degree-granting authority, according to a Dec. 14 release.
The COVID-19 shutdown in 2020 marked a technological awakening in many state and federal courts when the national emergency temporarily forced everybody to move online. More than three years later, more state courts are making videoconferencing platforms for civil and criminal matters part of their long-term game plans.
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, more students of color are applying to law school, according to the latest figures from the Law School Admission Council.
A federal appeals court has ruled that many restrictions in New York’s revised concealed-carry law are likely constitutional, including a requirement that applicants be of good moral character.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday narrowed a gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump by a federal judge overseeing his election-interference case.
A part-time lawyer didn’t violate a disciplinary rule banning false or misleading communications by posting copied material on her website, along with statements such as “experience counts,” the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Dec. 1.
The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School has received a public notice of being out of compliance with ABA accreditation standards.
It’s December, and for many law firms that means it’s time to put on the party hats and try to have some fun. But a celebratory event like a holiday party can quickly devolve into drunkenness, inappropriate behavior and a litigation mess if law firm management isn’t careful, employment lawyers warn.
Some lawyers are less reliable than defendants when it comes to showing up in court, according to a study of criminal cases in Philadelphia courts during a 10-year span.
