USF Law revamps JD curriculum to better prepare students for bar exam
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF LAW – The USF School of Law is implementing significant changes to the JD curriculum to better prepare students to pass the bar examination and hit the ground running as lawyers.
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ABA JOURNAL – Moeser attributed the February drop in MBE scores partly to differences in law school admission patterns.
Read More about President of the National Conference of Bar Examiners comments on February 2017 bar pass ratesIncoming Missouri Law Dean Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky discusses priorities in role
MISSOURIAN – After spending more than 20 years at the University of Florida, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky is bringing her experience to Columbia.
Read More about Incoming Missouri Law Dean Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky discusses priorities in roleOklahoma Supreme Court allows law school graduate with no undergraduate education to take bar exam
ABA JOURNAL – Caleb Alexander Harlin never attended college, but he has two law degrees and one law license.
Read More about Oklahoma Supreme Court allows law school graduate with no undergraduate education to take bar examUC Hastings Law Dean David L. Faigman raises concerns over California bar exam cut score
LOS ANGELES TIMES – “Given the stakes for the individual law graduate … one would think the state bar, which administers the test, would have sound reasons for how it sets the line [between] passing and failing.”
Read More about UC Hastings Law Dean David L. Faigman raises concerns over California bar exam cut scoreArizona Summit Law tests Legal Residency Program with financial stipend to better prepare students for bar exam
ABA JOURNAL – It’s not uncommon for a law school to suggest that a student postpone a bar exam, if there’s a sense that he or she is not ready, legal academics say, but paying a stipend for it is novel.
Read More about Arizona Summit Law tests Legal Residency Program with financial stipend to better prepare students for bar examABA takes a closer look at attrition, bar pass rates for law schools during midyear meeting
INDIANA LAWYER – At the mid-year meeting of the American Bar Association held in early February, legal education was in the spotlight or, some might say, the hot seat.
Read More about ABA takes a closer look at attrition, bar pass rates for law schools during midyear meetingABA House of Delegates rejects proposal to tighten bar pass standards for law schools
ABA JOURNAL – The ABA House of Delegates voted against a proposal to tighten bar passage rate standards for accredited law schools.
Read More about ABA House of Delegates rejects proposal to tighten bar pass standards for law schoolsReport finds continued drop in average LSAT scores at schools with lowest bar pass rates
ABA JOURNAL – LSAT numbers and bar-pass rates are getting worse at those schools seen as the most at risk for exploiting students, according to an investigation released Thursday by Law School Transparency.
Read More about Report finds continued drop in average LSAT scores at schools with lowest bar pass ratesMaine Supreme Judicial Court adopts Uniform Bar Exam
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW – The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will adopt the Uniform Bar Examination as of July 2017.
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