Florida Coastal federal financial aid to be released, following letter of credit submission

Updated: The U.S. Department of Education approved Thursday the release of federal student aid to Florida Coastal School of Law, a for-profit InfiLaw school, after the school submitted a letter of credit to the agency.

Sep 13, 2019 11:07 AM CDT

Law student among plaintiffs challenging state law requiring couples getting married to identify race

A law student at Washington and Lee University who is planning an October wedding is challenging a Virginia law that requires couples getting married to list their race.

Sep 9, 2019 2:33 PM CDT

Cooley Law School cuts tuition and seeks to close satellite campus

Western Michigan University’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School has announced plans to cut tuition by 21% and close its satellite campus near Detroit in Auburn Hills, Michigan, at the end of 2020.

Sep 3, 2019 3:51 PM CDT

Inside the Legal Profession: What the industry looks like in 2019

Law remains an in-demand profession that continues to grow and pay well while making slow, but steady progress when it comes to issues like diversity, technology adoption and employment after graduation from law school.

Sep 1, 2019 3:50 AM CDT

Atticus Finch is attending University of Texas law school

A 1L at the University of Texas School of Law has an appropriate legal name. The 1L is Atticus Finch, and it’s a name that he chose himself, the Texas Lawyer reports. Finch was named Angus Finch until his lawyer parents allowed him to legally change his name to Atticus…

Aug 26, 2019 2:49 PM CDT

ABA legal ed section set to send various standards and rules revisions to House of Delegates

Aug 26, 2019 2:05 PM CDT

Did you do a clinic in law school? Was it a valuable experience?

In the latest Legal Rebels podcast, the ABA Journal talked to Rodney Smolla, who brought a greater emphasis on experiential learning to both Washington and Lee School of Law and Widener University Delaware Law School, where he is now dean. The program Smolla started at Washington and Lee in 2009—optional…

Aug 21, 2019 11:43 AM CDT

Conservative student says law school biases infringe on his right to free speech

As a third-year law student, I have the concerns that any other 3L has: getting my reading assignments done before class starts, completing internship work, passing the bar exam and finding gainful employment. In addition, when I don my “Make America Great Again” hat, I add the concerns of ostracization…

Aug 7, 2019 2:11 PM CDT

More people are applying to law school, but it’s not like last year’s ‘Trump bump’

People applying to law school saw a modest 3.3% increase for the 2019-20 admission cycle, according to the Law School Admission Council. The data is as of July 31 and includes 62,427 applicants, Kellye Y. Testy, president and CEO of the LSAC, wrote in an Aug. 5 web post for…

Aug 7, 2019 12:04 PM CDT

What essay questions do you remember from the bar exam?

When test-takers took the California bar exam earlier this week, some say they might have had a leg up. An email from State Bar of California days before the test listed the essay question topics to be covered on the bar exam. The state bar had just mistakenly sent the…

Aug 1, 2019 11:45 AM CDT

Thanks to email error, those taking California bar exam now know essay question topics

When California bar exam test-takers received an email July 27, listing the topics to be covered on the upcoming state bar exam, many of them thought it was a hoax. It turns out that email, which was sent by the State Bar of California, was legitimate.

Jul 30, 2019 11:32 AM CDT

Closing Time: As Whittier Law School prepares to close, its dean tries to soften the blow for students

Closing Time: As Whittier Law School prepares to close, its dean tries to soften the blow for students

Jul 1, 2019 12:16 AM CDT

Want to go to law school? This teen has some tips

In this episode of Asked and Answered with the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward, teen Haley Taylor Schlitz talks about her organization plans and how she’ll be spending the summer before starting law school at Southern Methodist University this fall.

Jun 24, 2019 6:00 AM CDT

LSAC announces competition for law student access-to-justice ideas

Know any law students who have good ideas about helping low-income people with debt, evictions or government benefits? They could win up to $15,000 in seed money from the Law School Admission Council to work with nonprofit legal services groups.

Jun 21, 2019 10:56 AM CDT

Mindfulness training helped 1Ls reduce stress and improve well-being, study finds

First-year law students at the University of Missouri who volunteered for mindfulness training saw improvements in stress, well-being and mindful awareness, according to a study chronicled in a law review article. There was no statistically significant difference in grades between the mindfulness volunteers and a control group, however, according to…

Jun 19, 2019 1:47 PM CDT