Three software crashes and annoying habits of proctors didn’t entitle a law grad taking the bar exam to damages for reduced accommodations, the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled.

The national mean scaled score for the Multistate Bar Exam for July 2023 is 140.5, up 0.2 points from a year earlier, according to the National Conference of Board Examiners. In addition, more people took the exam: There were 45,968 test-takers nationally, up 2.8% from July 2022, according to a news release.

Legal technology company CS Disco has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with vLex company Fastcase to use the company’s large law library for “end-to-end” software for the practice of law.

Keramet Reiter has spent countless hours inside prisons, working with individuals who are incarcerated and studying the impact of prison and punishment policies on them, their communities and the legal system. As part of her work, Reiter has focused on expanding access to in-prison education programs.

Starting in 2024, law graduates aiming to practice in Oregon can skip the bar exam and instead follow an alternative pathway to licensure.

In late September, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families published a rule urging child welfare agencies to develop different standards for grandparents, aunts and uncles or other kinship caregivers who step in to raise children who can no longer live with their parents. The ABA Center on Children and the Law is now working to assist these states.

A former public school student who alleged that she was coerced to participate in a school meditation ritual that violated her Christian religious beliefs has accepted a $150,000 offer of judgment from the Chicago Board of Education and the foundation that developed the program.

Law firms eased up on hiring first-year associates in the third quarter to curtail expense growth, according to a new Thomson Reuters report published Monday.

Native American female lawyers often feel isolated and exhausted, and they have endured pervasive bias and harassment, according to a new report published by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and the National Native American Bar Association on Thursday.

“We are breaking down barriers, so our communities have the representation they deserve everywhere—in statehouses, in Congress, in classrooms, in film, science, and right here, with the American Bar Association,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in her remarks.