In California, would-be lawyers have to receive a score of 144 on the multistate portion of the bar exam to pass. That’s a higher threshold than in every other state…
An Albany Law School professor says he decided to investigate after seeing a Texas theater’s snide responses to complaints on its Facebook page about two women-only screenings of the “Wonder…
A case filed by an Argentine lawyer seeking to take the Tennessee bar exam “speaks to the essence of equity, equality and opportunity,” according to a Vanderbilt law professor who…
The Law School Admissions Council, which recently announced that it was eliminating the limit on how many times could take the LSAT over a two-year period, released testing dates Thursday.
An idea to combine three bodies in the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has been put into a report and shared with the group's council, which is meeting Friday in Portland, Oregon.
Faced with dwindling admissions, some law schools seek out overachieving 1Ls. Although the number of student transfers has been decreasing, law schools are interested in taking transfer students to bring in more revenue, according to higher-education consultants. It’s become a seller’s market for first-year students at the top of their class: They easily can move to a higher-ranked school or stay put and get bigger tuition discounts.
Although the issue of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Examination as an admissions test is still being considered by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the…
Arizona Summit School of Law, part of the for-profit InfiLaw System, must post a $1.5 million bond, which would reimburse students if the school closes.
Columbia University is seeking dismissal of an age bias suit filed by a 78-year-old law professor who contends the school is pressuring him to retire by making it more difficult…
For nearly 40 years starting in 1971, law schools had an average first-year class size of 246 students, peaking to 262 in 2010. Since then, that average has dropped 31…
Baker McKenzie partner John Rowley says there was just one person who intervened when a group of teens attacked him on May 12 at a Metro station in Washington, D.C.
A legally blind Michigan man who wants to attend law school has filed another federal lawsuit alleging the Law School Admissions Test is discriminatory under the Americans with Disabilities Act,…
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