A company that designed software used to grade Georgia State Bar Exam essay answers is being sued, after a reported product glitch resulted in incorrect scores and 90 people…
The requirements for bar passage rates for ABA-accredited law schools need tightening, an ABA committee has found, and committee members suggested the passage percentage requirement may be too low.
People who sit for future state bar exams will have more “pretest questions” to answer for the multistate portion. These are questions which do not count towards the test taker’s…
Erica Moeser, president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, says the cause of the current slump is “deceptively simple.” So simple, in fact, that she doesn’t know how anybody could think otherwise.
Tuition is about $39,000—total—at California Southern Law School, and if you’re interested, now is the time. Owners of the non-accredited Riverside institution say that after fall 2016, they won’t be…
A Harvard law grad alleges she lost her job at Ropes & Gray because she wasn’t granted all her requested disability accommodations the first and second time she took the…
Law schools could be at greater risk of losing their good standing under a pair of proposed changes in the ABA’s accreditation standards that are now being circulated for public…
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Third-year University of Wisconsin law students participate in the annual cane toss. Tradition says those who catch their cane will win their first case. Getty Images.
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A trial judge cannot simply cut by 70 percent the requested $1.9 million attorney fee award in a winning antitrust class action without providing a detailed explanation why he did…
Three law students have filed a federal lawsuit against BarBri Inc. contending that the company’s online bar-exam preparation materials aren’t fully accessible to the blind.
The mean scaled score on the February administration of the Multistate Bar Examination fell to 135, down 1.2 points from the previous year and the lowest average score on a…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has tentatively approved a proposal that would tighten and simplify the bar passage requirement in…
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