Conservative advocacy groups call for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate ABA diversity programs
REUTERS — A coalition of conservative legal groups on Monday asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate several of the American Bar Association’s diversity hiring programs, claiming they discriminate by giving priority to minority applicants and other underrepresented groups.
Read More about Conservative advocacy groups call for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate ABA diversity programsCampbell Law teams reach finals in ABA client counseling competition
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY NEWS — Campbell Law School advocates made it to the finals in yet another regional championship this time at 2025 American Bar Association (ABA) Regional Client Counseling Competition in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, over the weekend, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.
Read More about Campbell Law teams reach finals in ABA client counseling competitionAdvocacy groups call for the investigation of ABA diversity clerkship hiring program
BLOOMBERG LAW — Advocacy groups on Monday asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate the American Bar Association over alleged bias in a diversity clerkship hiring program.
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ABA JOURNAL — Every year, we like to give our readers a peek behind our analytics and share which of our stories got the most traffic. For 2024, we’re sharing the top 10 news stories written for ABAJournal.com and the top five articles that also appeared in our magazine.
Read More about ABA Journal highlights their top stories of 2024Minnesota lawyers reflect on ABA ‘Decade of the Female Lawyer’ report
MINNESOTA LAWYERS — The ABA’s “Decade” began in 2016, when women first outnumbered men at ABA-accredited law schools; by 2023 they accounted for 56% of the national
Read More about Minnesota lawyers reflect on ABA ‘Decade of the Female Lawyer’ reportAmerican Bar Association publishes fall 2024 data on law school admissions, tuition, and more
ABA — Information about Fall 2024 admissions and other matters reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools to the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is now publicly available. The information is required to be made public under Standard 509 of the Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.
Read More about American Bar Association publishes fall 2024 data on law school admissions, tuition, and moreABA approves Charleston Law’s application for nonprofit status
THE NATIONAL JURIST — The American Bar Association agreed to the next step in the Charleston School of Law’s quest to move from a private enterprise to a nonprofit school.
Read More about ABA approves Charleston Law’s application for nonprofit statusABA approves plan to reunite Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law
PENN STATE — The American Bar Association (ABA) Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has granted conditional approval for Penn State to deliver legal education by a single, unified, two-location law school known as Penn State Dickinson Law.
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REUTERS — The American Bar Association has established a path for law schools to admit some or all of their new students without the Law School Admission Test or other “valid and reliable” admissions test.
Read More about ABA votes to create pathway to law school without standardized testingABA proposes new changes to diversity rules for law schools
BLOOMBERG LAW — The American Bar Association is tinkering with more changes to diversity, equity and inclusion-specific language standards for law schools, according to a Friday ABA memo.
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