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Incubator Program Prepares Law Graduates for Successful Solo Practice
The Law Entrepreneurs for Access Program (LEAP) at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is a year-long incubator program that provides advanced legal and business training to JD students who want to run successful solo practices.
Current Issues in Legal Education
The Demand for Legal Education: The Long View
Deborah M. Hussey Freeland, Research Fellow at the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, examines available data on the total number of law school applicants, including long-term economic and demographic trends in the demand for legal education.
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Study: Average price of JD programs dropped by six percent from 2010 to 2016
ABA JOURNAL — Law schools have cut class sizes and offered tuition discounts that lowered the average inflation-adjusted cost of a law degree by 6 percent from 2010 to 2016, according to a new study.
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Law school admissions experts discuss LSAT scoring and test preparation
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Aspiring attorneys who are wondering what their target score should be for the Law School Admission Test should start by looking at admission statistics for the J.D. programs they are interested in, experts suggest.
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Gallup survey: Confidence in U.S. higher education has fallen since 2015
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Just under half (48 percent) of American adults have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, according to an analysis being released today by Gallup.
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Upcoming Symposia at Member Schools
- Western Law Professors of Color & Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty Joint Conference - UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law - October 18-20, 2018
- The Future of Work: Challenges & Opportunities for State Governments- Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law - October 19, 2018
- Facing Opioids: Drug Enforcement and Health Policy in Today’s Epidemic - The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law - October 19, 2018
- Rights of Nature: Shifting Paradigms and Grounding in the Law - Vermont Law School - October 19, 2018
- Interdisciplinary Opioid Epidemic Symposium Fall 2018 - University of Georgia School of Law - October 20, 2018
- The Fourth Annual IP Mosaic Conference IP Unbundled: Theory, Policy, and Practice - University of New Hampshire School of Law - October 25, 2018
- Content Moderation & The Future of Online Speech - St. John’s Law School - October 25, 2018
- Midwest Law and Society Retreat - University of Wisconsin Law School - October 26-27, 2018
- Rural Development: Using Innovation to Create Thriving Communities - Texas A&M School of Law - October 26, 2018
- Fiduciary Duty, Corporate Goals, and Shareholder Activism - Case Western Reserve University School of Law - November 2, 2018