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By John Council | July 21, 2017
The American Association of Law Schools is moving a 2018 conference from Austin to Chicago and will no longer host events in Texas, its president told state lawmakers.
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By Cheryl Miller | July 20, 2017
Over the last year California's bar exam has been scrutinized and vilified. But that hasn't stopped a crush of would-be Golden State lawyers from registering for the latest crucible, which starts Tuesday. Applications to take the July bay exam topped 10,000 this year—an increase over last year's numbers.
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By Karen Sloan | July 18, 2017
Law school has lost its allure. Enrollment at American Bar Association-accredited law schools has plummeted 25 percent since 2010 and several law schools…
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By Catherine Wilson | July 18, 2017
Billboard magazine puts the University of Miami's School of Law on its list of the top 12 programs nationally.
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By Rebecca Baker | July 17, 2017
When the American Bar Association convenes in New York City next month for its annual meeting, it will offer a series of low-cost continuing legal education programs geared toward attorneys who may never have attended an ABA event before.
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By KAREN SLOAN | July 17, 2017
Lawyer Serranus Clinton Hastings made his fortune during the California Gold Rush and served as the first chief justice of the state's Supreme Court before giving $100,000—supposedly in gold coins—to establish the University of California's first law school in 1878.
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By Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle | July 17, 2017
Elena Kagan was far along in the new Obama administration's vetting process for an important U.S. Justice Department job when she got a call from the White House. That job she was in line to get? Well, the White House wanted her to do something else. Kagan was asked to be the U.S. solicitor general instead and was nominated for the position on Jan. 5, 2009. The rest is history.
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By Karen Sloan | July 14, 2017
One man advocated for barring Chinese immigrants; another apparently enjoyed an abhorrent pastime.
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By KAREN SLOAN | July 13, 2017
The hoped-for law school “Trump Bump” might actually have legs.The number of people who took the Law School Admission Test in June climbed nearly 20 percent over last year—the largest percentage increase for any individual LSAT administration since September 2009. (Legal education observers will remember that the 2010-11 academic year was the high-water mark for national law school enrollment before a steady, six-year decline.)
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By Karen Sloan | July 12, 2017
A&M's Andrew Morriss will lead the university's new School of Innovation starting Aug. 1.
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