ABA lauds Public Service Loan Forgiveness changes and urges Congress to pass additional reforms
ABA JOURNAL — People with jobs that qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program can now get credits from previously ineligible loan plans, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. Under the new guidelines, loans such as the Federal Family Education Loan Program and the Perkins Loan Program are now eligible for PSLF, according to a…
Read More about ABA lauds Public Service Loan Forgiveness changes and urges Congress to pass additional reformsAmerican Council on Education statement on Public Service Loan Forgiveness changes
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — “Today’s announcement by Secretary of Education Cardona fulfills a promise the nation made to forgive the student loans of tens of thousands of individuals who have dedicated years to public service. This is long overdue. The Biden administration inherited a Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that has failed over multiple administrations…
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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 successLaw students call on schools to sever ties with legal research groups associated with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
THE HILL — Law students across the country are calling on their schools to sever ties with two major research firms over their work with immigration enforcement agencies. A set of protests demanding the termination of contracts with LexisNexis and Westlaw scheduled throughout the week marks a high-water mark in the growing movement to hold data brokers…
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ABA JOURNAL –A New York federal judge has overturned a decision to discharge a law grad’s student debt, citing a “constellation of evidence” that the debtor “placed himself in this predicament” after abandoning a legal career. U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern of the Southern District of New York said a bankruptcy judge should not have…
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THE CHRONICLE — This fall, Duke will officially become home to a chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, a national law and pre-law fraternity. Co-founders Chinmay Amin and Max Wyatt, both sophomores, recognized the lack of a strong and active pre-law organization at Duke and hoped to form a community for their pre-law peers. “Nobody knows the struggles of…
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ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — Law school can be a melting pot when it comes to the student body, and one way students differ is in neurodiversity. What’s neurodiversity? And what does it mean to be neurodivergent? In a nutshell, it means that just as every person is special in their own unique way, so are their…
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THE TIMBERJAY — Ely native and enrolled Bois Forte Band member Robert Anderson has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new chief legal counsel for the U.S. Department of Interior. Nominated for the position of Solicitor in April by President Joe Biden, senators approved Anderson for the position on a 53-44 vote, split…
Read More about Former University of Washington and Harvard law professor Robert Anderson confirmed to US Interior Department postLSAC podcast explores recent changes in law school admissions and the LSAT
LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION COUNCIL — Welcome to LSAC’s Keeping Up to Data podcast, where each month we will share perspectives and trends related to law school admission and cover other topics of interest. I’m Susan Krinsky, a former admission dean and former LSAC board chair — and now chief operating officer and chief of staff at…
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U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Since testing resumed in summer 2020 after a brief hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the LSAT has been remotely proctored. The Law School Admission Council, or LSAC, plans to continue remotely proctored tests in the four-section format adopted in August 2021 for the foreseeable future. This means that…
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