Law class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemic
NATIONAL JURIST — The Class of 2020 had better first-time bar exam results than the previous, non-pandemic class. It passed at an 82.83% clip, compared to the 79.64% passing rate notched by the Class of 2019, according to American Bar Association statistics.
Read More about Law class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemicABA honors Northwestern Law professor Joyce Hughes and Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan with Margaret Brent Awards
ABA JOURNAL — The commission established the annual awards in 1991 to recognize and celebrate female lawyers who have achieved professional excellence within their specialty and helped pave the way for other women. It is named for Margaret Brent, who arrived in the colonies in 1638 and is recognized as the first female lawyer in North…
Read More about ABA honors Northwestern Law professor Joyce Hughes and Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan with Margaret Brent AwardsABA survey shows little gain in the number of women and lawyers of color over the last 10 years
BLOOMBERG LAW — Women and minorities made only minimal gains in joining law firm ranks over the past decade, American Bar Association data released Thursday shows. The percentage of women lawyers increased to 37% in 2021 from 33% in 2011, according to the ABA’s 2021 Profile of the Legal Profession.
Read More about ABA survey shows little gain in the number of women and lawyers of color over the last 10 yearsUniversity of Arkansas Law professor Cynthia Nance named chair of the American Bar Foundation Fellows
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LAW — Cynthia Nance, dean emerita and the Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law at the U of A School of Law, has been named chair of the American Bar Foundation Fellows. She, along with ABF board president and executive director, will also accept a $3.49 million grant presented by American Bar Endowment…
Read More about University of Arkansas Law professor Cynthia Nance named chair of the American Bar Foundation FellowsBipartisan bill proposed to allow for the discharge of federal student loans in bankruptcy after a wait
ABA Journal — A bipartisan bill unveiled Tuesday would make it easier to discharge federal student loans in bankruptcy after a 10-year waiting period. The bill is called the Fresh Start Through Bankruptcy Act of 2021
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ABA JOURNAL — The American Bar Association is hosting its first-ever hybrid annual meeting, which will bring together members for both virtual and in-person events in Chicago this week. ABA President Patricia Lee Refo said in a welcome message that the meeting, which runs from Aug. 4 through Aug. 10, has been “our association’s hallmark event since…
Read More about ABA holds hybrid annual meetingSurvey: Lawyer moms report feeling overworked amid pandemic
ABA JOURNAL — As the world ground to a halt and parents scrambled for solutions, an uncomfortable truth emerged: Women are America’s default social safety net. It’s a regressive construct that has entrapped and hobbled working mothers across the spectrum—including lawyer-moms. The pandemic simply tightened the screws.
Read More about Survey: Lawyer moms report feeling overworked amid pandemicOpinion: New York should keep the Uniform Bar Exam
BLOOMBERG LAW — Two members of the ABA’s Young Lawyer Division say a recent article by members of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on the Bar Examination that called for abandoning the Uniform Bar Exam was off the mark.
Read More about Opinion: New York should keep the Uniform Bar ExamABA Wills for Underserved Committee helps law schools create estate planning programs
ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — Some years ago, the Community Outreach Committee of the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section strategized ways to introduce more students to estate planning work. The easy answer was to encourage law schools to create estate planning clinics, but law school clinics are expensive and complicated to operate. The Committee concluded…
Read More about ABA Wills for Underserved Committee helps law schools create estate planning programsIndiana University McKinney Law faculty to participate in ABA panel discussion on pipeline programs aimed at improving access to the legal profession
INDIANA UNIVERSITY ROBERT H. MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Three people with IU McKinney connections will take part in a discussion about educational pipeline programs aimed at increasing access to the legal profession. The law school’s Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Patricia Kinney, ’02, and Professor Max Huffman, will be joined on the panel by…
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