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Law school cuts tuition by 35%

The University of Tulsa College of Law, a private institution, is reducing tuition and ending its regional scholarship plan for the next school year.

This year, tuition at the law…

Software company used in faulty Georgia bar exam scoring gets hit with lawsuit

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…

Committee OKs proposal to tighten ABA bar pass standards; some members hope more will be done

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.

Standard…

Hillary Clinton explains how a bad LSAT experience taught her to keep her emotions in check

Hillary Clinton says she learned a lesson about keeping her emotions in check when she took the Law School Admission Test.

Clinton tells the Humans of New York blog…

Prosecutor refused to arrest former brother-in-law of slain law prof Dan Markel

Probable cause affidavits seeking the arrest of the former brother-in-law of slain law professor Dan Markel contained “speculation” but lacked enough evidence to bring charges, according to the top prosecutor…

J.J. Prescott: Go to court without leaving home

Go to court without leaving home

90 people who were told they failed the bar exam learn it’s not true

Ninety people who were told they failed the Georgia Bar Exam are getting some good news: They actually passed.

Errors in scoring the July 2015 and February 2016 exam caused…

What does increase in MBE pretest questions mean for test takers?

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…

Law firm uses speed-dating approach to law student interviews

A New York law firm is taking an alternative approach to on-campus interviews.

Herrick Feinstein recently invited about 50 law students to a cocktail party and interviewed them in a…

What do falling bar-passage rates mean for legal education—and the future of the profession?

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.

Law prof and journalist team up to hold police accountable for their actions

Sitting in his office at the University of Chicago Law School just over a year ago, attorney and professor Craig Futterman was talking about a video almost no one had seen. It was a dashboard-camera recording of a white Chicago police officer killing a black teenager.

Program helps profs teach students how they can be the lawyers they want to be

Legal education is more than teaching students how to think like lawyers, Neil Hamilton says: They should graduate with a sense of how to act like one, too, in a…

Can it be? Fun CLE?

Anyone who’s ever been in a law school lecture hall knows the feeling: Your foot has fallen asleep and your mind is wandering to a sunny beach when you realize…

ABA responds to accreditation panel’s threat to suspend its role

Facing a Department of Education panel recommendation that the ABA’s accreditation power for new law schools be suspended for one year, the association has responded by filing a confidential comment.

California governor cites high law school costs in vetoing mandatory pro bono bill

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday vetoed a bill that would have required would-be lawyers to complete at least 50 hours of supervised pro bono work before admission to the…

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