After many years of living in the United States without legal permission, a California attorney admitted in 2014 after state lawmakers passed a bill allowing him to join the…
Last month, we noted that data shows that lower LSAT scores and declining bar-pass rates have been going hand-in-hand in recent years. Jerry Organ, a law professor at the…
Observed by fellow applicants continuing to write after time was called during the Multistate Bar Exam portion of the July 2014 bar exam in Ohio, a 2013 law graduate of…
An ABA committee on Friday will take up a proposal that would toughen—and greatly simplify—the bar passage requirements of the law school accreditation standards.
In an order (PDF) filed last week, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals confirmed that it will begin administering the Uniform Bar Exam this summer, Above the…
After a year when race and bias have been important parts of the national conversation—and when a woman of color is serving as ABA president for the first time—diversity and…
The decline in bar-exam scores and bar-pass rates is likely to continue through 2018, given the LSAT profiles of current law students, according to a law professor who has examined…
Law school consumer information for the entering class of 2015 is now available on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s website, the section said in…
The percentage of people passing the California bar exam in July 2015 has dropped to 46.6 percent overall, down from 48.6 percent last July. The percentage is the lowest point…
A former Army officer is urging the Ohio Supreme Court to allow him to take the bar exam despite the fact that he was convicted by a military court after…
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