As part of the process of implementing new standards for law schools to report employment data about their graduates, the American Bar Association is seeking bids for what the National Law Journal calls a law school data cop. A request …
Duke University law professor Paul Carrington recalls overseeing a study on legal education reform in 1970 that was funded by the Ford Foundation. The conclusion? The third year of legal education is a waste of time that raises the cost …
A California law school is suing state bar officials over a new bar passage rate requirement that it says could cost the school its accreditation. The Southern California Institute of Law, which has campuses in Santa Barbara and Ventura, claims …
Educators aren’t giving up plans to open up a handful of new law schools, despite a nationwide drop in applicants and declining job prospects for graduates. Among the colleges planning to open law schools are Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne …
A proposal to let individuals who have completed two years of law school take the New York bar exam before they have earned their juris doctor degree is worth further study, the state’s chief judge said at a recent conference. …
A proposal to let individuals who have completed two years of law school take the New York bar exam before they have earned their juris doctor degree is worth further study, the state’s chief judge said at a recent conference. …
An ABA committee has approved two more chapters of recommended changes in law school accreditation standards. One of the two chapters covers admission policies and practices, and the other deals with organization and administration. The most significant of the proposed …
For decades, a number of attorneys have contended that the third year of law school is an unnecessary waste of time. And, as law school graduates have become increasingly burdened with heavy debt loads, that argument has gained increasing weight. …
A law professor who says two years of law school is sufficient preparation for the bar exam is getting a serious hearing for his idea. New York University law professor Samuel Estreicher is proposing that New York change its bar …
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