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West Virginia, North Dakota Among Latest Adopters of NextGen Bar Exam

The NextGen bar exam will replace the Uniform Bar Examination that West Virginia and North Dakota currently use and will serve as the basis for score portability between participating jurisdictions.
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New York Law Journal

'Illegal Conspiracy'?: EDNY Antitrust Class Action Challenges Publishers' 'Unpaid Peer Review Rule'

Academic journal publishers "essentially agreed to hold the careers of scholars hostage" and "force them to provide their valuable labor for free" in violation of the Sherman Act, according to the complaint, filed by Lieff Cabraser lawyers.
4 minute read

Law.com

Loyola University Chicago Facing Third Title IX Complaint for 'Systemically Mishandling' Sexual Misconduct Reports

"Loyola has shown deliberate indifference to known acts of sexual assault and harassment for at least the past decade," the complaint said.
5 minute read

Law.com

Federal Judge Blocks New Hampshire Law Banning Transgender Girls From School Sports

U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty said the law "on its face, discriminates against transgender girls," and said the bill's "disparate treatment of transgender girls because they are transgender is clear on the face of the statute."
4 minute read

Legaltech News

K&L Gates Partners With AltaClaro to Offer Gen AI Supervisory Course for Firm Partners and Managers

Expanding on past successes with AltaClaro's prompt engineering training, the firm's new course aims to give law firm leaders the necessary skills to professionally and ethically oversee the use of generative AI in legal practice.
6 minute read

Law.com

Judge Pauses Landmark $2.75B NCAA Settlement Proposal, Parties to Hash Out More Details

"This provision was carefully negotiated. It is a central part of the deal, and without it, I am not sure there will be a settlement to submit," Rakesh Kilaru, a partner with Wilkinson Stekloff and counsel to the NCAA, said.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Teen Charged in Barrow School Shooting and His Father to Stay in Custody After Hearings

The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father will stay in custody after back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Rutgers Taps Lowenstein Sandler to Investigate 'Ugly,' 'Disturbing' Allegations Made by Women's Gymnastics Team

At a Southern New Jersey Central Labor Council event Aug. 30, Gov. Phil Murphy called the allegations "really ugly and very disturbing."
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Berkeley Law Taps Big Tech, Law Firms and ACLU to Design New AI LLM Program

Berkeley Law's newly launched AI-focused master of laws degree program will address the emerging technology's impact on law, policy and regulation.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Anti-Zionism Getting the Poor Treatment It Deserves in Campus Anti-Semitism Cases

Courts are beginning to render decisions in the wave of cases filed following universities' widespread failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, and the early verdict is encouraging.
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