The future is upon us and never before has there been a more urgent need for the American Bar Association to lead the way toward change in the profession and a better understanding of the rule of law among our citizens.
Sep 1, 2017 12:50 AM CDT
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Updated: On Thursday, the State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners voted 13-1 to recommend leaving California’s bar cut score at 1440, Courthouse News Service reports. Some studies…
Professionals with large salaries and “class cluelessness” may be the reason Donald Trump was elected president, according to a new book by a University of California Hastings Law professor.
A group of Florida International University College of Law graduates have asked Alexander Acosta, their former dean, to resign as President Donald Trump’s labor secretary on the basis that the…
A federal criminal investigation involving Charlotte School of Law was opened more than a year ago, according to recently unsealed court documents in a qui tam lawsuit. The Orlando U.S.…
Judith A. Gundersen, director of test operations at the National Conference of Bar Examiners, has been tapped to serve as the organization’s president and chief operating officer.
Recent reports on a youth who is entering law school at the age of 18 spurred Law.com to track down some other law school grads who began their studies…
Updated: President Donald Trump on Friday night pardoned former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of contempt last month for violating a federal judge’s order to stop immigration arrests.
Is the breakdown of “bourgeois culture” to blame for societal ills such as unemployment, inner-city murders and schools that don’t adequately educate their students? The question is the subject of dueling op-eds by different groups of law professors published by Philly.com and the Daily Pennsylvanian.
What’s the buzz in BigLaw legal tech? Blockchain, project management and artificial intelligence are dominant topics, according to Michigan State University law professor Daniel W. Linna Jr.
Law school accreditation should be tied to employment outcomes, law professor Scott Norberg advocates in a recent paper, because existing standards regarding bar passage rates don’t do enough.
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