By Christine Charnosky | May 2, 2022
New data on the 2021 bar exam from the American Bar Association shows that the pass rate for white first-time test-takers was more than 20% higher than the rate for Black first-time test-takers. That gap narrowed, however, among the "ultimate" bar pass rates for 2019 and 2020 law grads.
By Christine Charnosky | April 20, 2022
"They make it seem like if you go to a [tier 2] state school, your future is going to be like 'Better Call Saul,'" one Reddit user said.
By Christine Charnosky | April 8, 2022
The national Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) mean scaled score for February was 132.6, a return to the February 2020 mean.
By Christine Charnosky | April 6, 2022
"Our nation and our profession are blessed with a great diversity of people from every conceivable background," ABA President Reginald Turner said in a statement. "The ABA has long supported equal opportunities for all. Everyone benefits when participation in ABA programs, including our CLE panels, is maximized."
By Christine Charnosky | April 4, 2022
"It's really impossible to come up with a one-size-fits-all rankings list," said Aaron Taylor, executive director for AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence.
By Christine Charnosky | March 29, 2022
U.S. News & World Report has unveiled its 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings. And while Yale Law School continued its long-running streak at No. 1, there were still plenty of significant changes near the top of the list, including Harvard Law School being bumped out of the top three for the first time since 1990.
By Christine Charnosky | March 17, 2022
Last week, a group of Yale Law students protested an on-campus Federalist Society event featuring conservative speaker Kristen Waggoner. Now, a federal judge has suggested to colleagues that the protesters should be identified and potentially disqualified from federal clerkships.
By Christine Charnosky | March 16, 2022
David M. Rubenstein, a 1973 alum of the University of Chicago Law School, has renewed his commitment to the school's David M. Rubenstein Scholars Program with a $15 million gift that will provide full-tuition scholarships for nearly 60 students in the classes of 2026, 2027 and 2028, the school announced Wednesday.
By Alaina Lancaster | March 11, 2022
The lawsuit, filed by Lieff Cabrasrer Heimann & Bernstein and FeganScott, claims two University of San Francisco baseball coaches retaliated against student athletes who did not participate in the sexualized atmosphere they created, which included one coach getting naked and "swinging his penis in a helicopter fashion."
By Christine Charnosky | February 16, 2022
The American Bar Association House of Delegates this week adopted several changes to the ABA's accreditation standards, including adding a controversial requirement that law schools provide "education on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism" to students.
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