Adams and Reese law firm partners with Street Law to improve access to legal education in Alabama
ADAMS AND REESE LLP — Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that it has entered a partnership with Street Law, Inc., to bring the first Legal Diversity Pipeline program to Alabama. Through this program — designed to encourage the pursuit of legal careers by young people from groups that are currently underrepresented in the legal…
Read More about Adams and Reese law firm partners with Street Law to improve access to legal education in AlabamaUniversity of Cincinnati researchers release report on the factors behind student bar exam success
UNIVERSITY OF CINNINATI –When Joel Chanvisanuruk, JD ’06, was hired as director of Academic Success and Bar Programs at Cincinnati Law in 2009, conventional wisdom pointed to incoming student credentials—notably, LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs—as the best indicators of bar passage. Now, thanks to a collaboration with Amy Farley and Christopher Swoboda, both of who are…
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BLOOMBERG LAW — ExamSoft is apologizing for malfunctions of software it provided for last month’s remote bar exams, faulting the process for coordinating and controlling computer memory.“We strive to make the exam process seamless for exam-takers and the certifying bodies,” company spokeswoman Nici Sandberg said in a statement. “Unfortunately, for some July 2021 bar exam-takers, this…
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AP NEWS — For three intense years, law students like Chase Wilde can’t escape the thought that the bar exam is waiting for them once they finish. He said the test maintains a powerful presence over students, always there in the back of their minds and often dictating which classes they take.
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EAST OREGONIAN — The Oregon State Bar is considering doing something that no other state has done before: making the Unified Bar Exam optional.
Read More about Oregon lawyers respond to state’s alternative law licensing proposalsTips for international students applying to law school in the US
WTOP NEWS — Because the U.S. is a global hub of legal education and practice, American law schools attract many foreign applicants. Most commonly, applicants come from countries with similar common law legal systems, like Canada, the United Kingdom, India and English-speaking nations in Africa and the Caribbean. But growing numbers of applicants from Asia, Latin America…
Read More about Tips for international students applying to law school in the USVirginia Law Foundation grants support law school clinics and public interest projects in state
CBS 19 NEWS — Two local organizations are among two dozen that are getting grant funding for law-related projects. The Virginia Law Foundation announced its 2021 grant recipients on Tuesday, saying 24 organizations are getting nearly $600,000.
Read More about Virginia Law Foundation grants support law school clinics and public interest projects in stateFederal judge denies Florida Coastal Law’s motion to reinstate student loan eligibility
NEWS4JAX — Florida Coastal School of Law’s hopes of staying open suffered a setback Monday when a federal judge denied a motion for a court order restoring its eligibility for federal funding.
Read More about Federal judge denies Florida Coastal Law’s motion to reinstate student loan eligibilityStanford Law professor Erik Jensen discusses the future of Legal Education in Afghanistan
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — What is the legacy of the American invasion of Afghanistan, twenty years on? For Erik Jensen, faculty director of Stanford Law School’s Rule of Law Program (ROLP), who helped launch the Afghanistan Legal Education Project(ALEP) in 2007 as a student-driven initiative in ROLP, the answer for him is simple: legal education.
Read More about Stanford Law professor Erik Jensen discusses the future of Legal Education in AfghanistanA look at law school acceptance rates
ABA JOURNAL — If you applied to your favorite law school last year only to face rejection, you are in good company. According to the U.S. News & Report Short List, the average acceptance rate last fall, among 193 ranked law schools, was 44%. The average acceptance rate for students who began in the fall of 2020…
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