It’s not terribly unusual for a law grad to need to take the bar exam more than once to pass. But the experience of failing the bar can be crushing…
Jan 4, 2017 8:30 AM CST
A federal judge in Arizona has dismissed part of a lawsuit claiming the Arizona Summit Law School committed fraud by failing to report information about students admitted through an alternative…
Jan 3, 2017 3:32 PM CST
Imagine that you spend countless hours studying for the bar exam. You take the exam. You are told that you failed. Then you find out that you did, indeed, pass the exam after all.
Jan 1, 2017 3:10 AM CST
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In July, John Marshall Law School’s Pro Bono Program & Clinic launched the Name & Gender Marker Change Project, through which students help transgender people navigate federal, state and local laws to obtain corrected passports, licenses and other documents.
Jan 1, 2017 2:50 AM CST
John Marshall Law School student Brittany Morgan-Glenn with client Hans B. outside the Daley Center in Chicago. Photograph by Saverio Truglia.
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No ABA-accredited law school has ever been out of compliance with a standard regarding bar passage percentages, and that may indicate that the standard is not working well. The ABA House of Delegates is expected to consider a proposal to revise the standard.
Jan 1, 2017 1:10 AM CST
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Updated: Two students filed a $5 million class action lawsuit Friday against Charlotte School of Law and its parent company, Infilaw.
The complaint (PDF) accuses the law school…
Dec 23, 2016 1:00 PM CST
Ari Kaplan talks to a panel of industry leaders in a virtual roundtable about where the legal industry is headed and advice for navigating prospective 2017 challenges.
They include:
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Dec 23, 2016 7:30 AM CST
An University of Oregon law professor who wore blackface to a Halloween party violated the school’s anti-discrimination policies, according to an administrative investigation report released Wednesday.
Scott Coltrane, the school’s…
Dec 22, 2016 2:34 PM CST
Updated: Following the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement that it’s cutting off federal student financial aid at Infilaw System’s Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina, students say they’re scrambling…
Dec 22, 2016 12:35 PM CST
Updated: After reportedly making “substantial misrepresentations” to current and prospective students regarding its compliance with ABA accreditation standards, Infilaw System’s Charlotte School of Law will lose its federal student financial…
Dec 19, 2016 2:35 PM CST
Although 80 percent of ABA-accredited law schools had double-digit percentage decreases for students admitted, bloggers observed following Thursday’s annual release of Standard 509 Information Reports data, this year marked…
Dec 19, 2016 9:03 AM CST
David Faigman, the acting dean at University of California Hastings College of the Law, didn’t know that he’d get individual notice of bar passage rates. But one Friday afternoon in…
Dec 16, 2016 2:10 PM CST
Total enrollment for ABA-accredited law schools decreased by 2.6 percent in the past year, but for first-year classes, there was an increase of 0.1 percent, according to Standard 509 Information…
Dec 15, 2016 1:10 PM CST
Corrected: While the University of North Texas Dallas College of Law is pursuing ABA accreditation, the state supreme court on Tuesday granted a request from the dean that its graduates…
Dec 15, 2016 11:45 AM CST
A law student was unarmed when he was shot and killed by a police officer in Hudson, Ohio, during a struggle with the officer following a traffic accident on Dec.…
Dec 14, 2016 10:52 AM CST