In May, the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar hit “pause” on its proposal to allow law schools to become test-optional, but in June Council opened the door to allow schools to use the JD-Next exam for admission in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test and the Graduate Record Exam.

Now 32 law schools, plus the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law—whose team has been developing the test for past five years—have been granted variances from Standard 503 to use JD-Next.

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