ABA report shows increase in first-time and two-year bar exam pass rates
ABA JOURNAL — Despite the coronavirus chaos around July 2020 bar exams—including health fears for in-person bars, software problems with remote tests and jurisdictions making last-minute date and format changes—the first-time pass rate actually increased from the previous year.
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ABA JOURNAL — The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released the data Tuesday. The information includes an online table that breaks down 2020 jobs by various categories and includes comparisons to class of 2019 data.
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INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM — IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, released two new guides—an Instructional Design Guide and a Hiring Guide—which detail innovative ways for legal educators and legal employers to implement data-driven, outcomes-based standards underpinned by IAALS’ Foundations for Practice research.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Officials from the National Conference of Bar Examiners refute an earlier Bloomberg Law Insight about future bar exams administered via computer. They say the next generation of bar exams will be administered in-person on computers and monitored by on-site proctors and dispute the assertion that AI facial recognition technology was used in proctoring…
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BLUEFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH — The Appalachian School of Law in Buchanan County, Va. announced Wednesday that a new president and dean had been selected for the school.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — A law student at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law expelled for bad grades won’t be reinstated, after the Texas Supreme Court held that dismissal for academic reasons doesn’t implicate a protected liberty interest under the state constitution.
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EIN PRESSWIRE — Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court announced today that for those applicants sitting for the Hawaii bar examination scheduled to begin on July 27, 2021, the passing score will be temporarily modified to 133.
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ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — The Commission, dubbed 2Civility, is offering law students free admission to its annual The Future Is Now: Legal Services conference, which will be held virtually April 27 to April 29, from 12 to 2 p.m. CDT. The widely attended three-day conference features talks and interactive townhall sessions that dive deep into tipping points…
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THE NATIONAL JURIST — That’s the amount of money that the nonprofit AccessLex Institute has handed out to students via its MAX by AccessLex Grand Prize Scholarship Drawing. It recently awarded $270,000 to nine current law students, which is some pretty serious coin.
Read More about AccessLex announces law student awardees for scholarship drawingCollege student activists call for changes in response to anti-Asian hate
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Asian and Asian American student activists across the country want to bring about changes to curricula and campus life.
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