Legal Education

ABA Legal Ed council rejects Golden Gate University’s plan to end its JD program

After years of struggling to meet the ABA’s accreditation standards and financial woes, Golden Gate University School of Law announced it will discontinue its juris doctorate program when this academic year ends. However, the ABA Legal Ed council rejected the plan because it “did not include sufficient detail relating to the operation of a teach-out.”

Dec 1, 2023 1:50 PM CST

Anti-Zionist policies by student groups at UC Berkeley Law fostered harassment and hatred, suit alleges

A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that anti-Zionist policies by student groups at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Dec 1, 2023 10:00 AM CST

Debt Management: ABA advocates for student loan reforms in a changing landscape

For more than two decades, the ABA has sounded the alarm about the devastating effects of excessive student debt on law students and newly minted lawyers while actively engaging in advocacy efforts to provide relief.

Dec 1, 2023 12:20 AM CST

Minority law school applicants lean on personal statements post-Harvard decision

When Daniela Hernandez-Gil heard about the Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College decision, she considered chucking the whole idea of law school. The child of Colombian immigrants had planned to focus her application’s diversity statement on her brushes with the juvenile justice system that she…

Nov 30, 2023 11:07 AM CST

DePaul University College of Law dean will lead ABA legal education starting next summer

The DePaul University College of Law’s dean will become the managing director for accreditation and legal education at the ABA, replacing Bill Adams, effective June 1.

Nov 29, 2023 12:08 PM CST

Judicial task force will take deep look at legal ed, bar admissions

A new group comprised of nine state supreme court chief justices and three state court administrators will make recommendations to state supreme courts regarding legal education, the bar admissions process and the declining numbers of attorneys dedicated to public-interest law.

Nov 28, 2023 1:00 PM CST

Campus politics playing bigger role in prelaw students’ law school considerations, survey says

As conflicts related to the Hamas-Israeli war flare up on law school campuses, more than half of prelaw students—58%—want to attend a law school where their politics will align with those of others on campus, according to a survey by Kaplan conducted just before the war started and released Tuesday.

Nov 28, 2023 9:17 AM CST

Legal Ed council votes to send academic freedom proposal to ABA House of Delegates

Also at the Friday meeting in Dallas, the council voted to move a proposal regarding online library standards to the House, and it approved for public notice and comment proposed revisions to loosen accreditation standards for new online-only law schools.

Nov 20, 2023 12:33 PM CST

Lawyers learn too late that chatbots aren’t built to be accurate; how are judges and bars responding?

At least two lawyers who apparently used artificial intelligence chatbots to write legal documents ended up losing their jobs after the output included phony case citations.

Nov 17, 2023 2:11 PM CST

Indiana Supreme Court releases proposal allowing grads of nonaccredited law schools to take the bar

The Indiana Supreme Court is now seeking comment on a proposed amendment allowing graduates of non-American Bar Association-accredited law schools to sit for the Indiana bar exam.

Nov 16, 2023 3:53 PM CST

Program provides senior lawyers opportunities to teach law students abroad

Do you have an interest in sharing your experience and expertise as a practicing lawyer by teaching for a few weeks at a law school in Eastern Europe, Asia or Africa? The Senior Lawyer Visiting Professors Program might be for you.

Nov 15, 2023 9:44 AM CST

Lawyer ran for office in one state while serving in another

Andrew D. Purcell, who was disbarred in Missouri in October and has been assigned a case number by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, learned the hard way that lawyers can get into trouble when they claim to be in two places at the same time.

Nov 15, 2023 8:41 AM CST

ABA Legal Ed council rejects Golden Gate University’s plan to end its JD program

Anti-Zionist policies by student groups at UC Berkeley Law fostered harassment and hatred, suit alleges

Debt Management: ABA advocates for student loan reforms in a changing landscape

Minority law school applicants lean on personal statements post-Harvard decision

DePaul University College of Law dean will lead ABA legal education starting next summer

Judicial task force will take deep look at legal ed, bar admissions

Campus politics playing bigger role in prelaw students’ law school considerations, survey says

Legal Ed council votes to send academic freedom proposal to ABA House of Delegates

Lawyers learn too late that chatbots aren’t built to be accurate; how are judges and bars responding?

Indiana Supreme Court releases proposal allowing grads of nonaccredited law schools to take the bar

Program provides senior lawyers opportunities to teach law students abroad

Lawyer ran for office in one state while serving in another

Columbia law prof banned from 2 depositions after allegations of verbal abuse, intimidating presence

In ‘bombshell development,’ ex-mother-in-law of slain law prof arrested at airport

Bar applicant denied damages for test mishaps and proctor distractions

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