New report recommends additional evaluation of the GRE’s ability to predict law student success
REUTERS — The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits law schools shouldn’t put the Graduate Record Examination on equal footing with the Law School Admission Test without more data on how it predicts first-year grades, according to a new report by researchers the ABA tasked with evaluating the GRE’s promise. The ABA’s Section of Legal…
Read More about New report recommends additional evaluation of the GRE’s ability to predict law student successLawyer Derek Bolka reflects on ABA internship for law students with disabilities
ABA JOURNAL — Lawyer Derek Bolka credits an American Bar Association internship for kick-starting his career at Accenture, an information technology services company, where he is now an inaugural fellow of a legal program for lawyers with disabilities. Bolka, 37, was attending the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology when he applied to…
Read More about Lawyer Derek Bolka reflects on ABA internship for law students with disabilitiesSMU Dedman Law Professor Carla L. Reyes appointed to Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters
SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — SMU Dedman School of Law Professor Carla L. Reyes was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott as one of two academic members on the Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters, and will serve as the Work Group’s chair. The work group will develop a master plan for the expansion of…
Read More about SMU Dedman Law Professor Carla L. Reyes appointed to Texas Work Group on Blockchain MattersIncrease in law school enrollment raises concerns about graduate job prospects
REUTERS — If the law school corridors are feeling a bit crowded this fall, it’s not your imagination. First-year enrollment is up at most campuses following a blockbuster admissions cycle that saw the number of applicants jump by nearly 13%. At least 17 law schools have welcomed 1Ls classes a quarter or more larger than last year.
Read More about Increase in law school enrollment raises concerns about graduate job prospectsA look at law schools and the bar exam
JDJOURNAL — The passage of the bar exam is a requirement for most legal jobs, so legal education experts recommend that law school candidates compare pass rates for recent graduates at various J.D programs. To assess how a law school’s quality compares to that of others and decide if it deserves accreditation, the American Bar Association examines…
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ABA FOR LAW SCHOOLS — Each year the ABA Law Student Division and the ABA COLAP Law School Committee partner on the national Mental Health Day Program. This initiative is intended to spotlight the critical importance of our own well-being, and specific strategies to protect our well-being in law school and in the transition to the…
Read More about ABA seminar focuses on law student well-beingUniversity of Arkansas Law student Tyler Mlaker wins national law writing competition
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Third-year law student Tyler Mlaker has won first prize in the annual Law Student Writing Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Forum on Construction Law. Mlakar will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a one-year membership in the Forum and travel expenses and registration to attend the 2021 Forum Fall Meeting in…
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ABA JOURNAL — Union representatives for Rutgers Law School faculty presented what some might call a radical proposition in 2019. They proposed placing positions that involved full-time teaching, but were not doctrinal, on the tenure track. Kimberly Mutcherson, the law school’s co-dean, says she had not heard of the idea, nor had the majority of faculty until it…
Read More about Law faculty discuss how instructors differ from professorsOpinion: ABA JD requirements create barriers to the legal profession
WALL STREET JOURNAL — CNN anchor Poppy Harlow recently took a leave of absence from the network to attend a one-year master’s degree program for nonlawyers at Yale Law School. By drawing attention to Yale’s M.S.L. program, Ms. Harlow helps shed light on the absurdity of the legal profession’s time-consuming and expensive requirements to be licensed…
Read More about Opinion: ABA JD requirements create barriers to the legal professionVanderbilt Law professor Karla M. McKanders selected as chair of ABA Immigration Commission
TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION — Karla M. McKanders, a clinical professor of law and associate director of the clinical program at Vanderbilt University Law School, has been named chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration.
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