Fall 2018 enrollment data for Georgia law schools

December 26, 2018

DAILY REPORT — New enrollment at four of five Georgia law schools rose this year, growing faster than the overall 3 percent increase for the nation’s law schools.

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Law.com legal education newsletter: the bar exam of the future

December 26, 2018

LAW.COM — What subjects should the bar exam test? How should the test be delivered? And at what’s the best time to administer the bar? Those are a few of the questions the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ Testing Task Force is spending three years mulling over

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A first-year law student’s perspective on final exams

December 26, 2018

LAW.COM — A first-year law student at University of Michigan Law reflects on her first year and final exams.

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How law schools are using virtual reality tools in the classroom

December 21, 2018

ABA JOURNAL — This past summer at the University of North Texas Dallas College of Law, a small team of law students and school employees created a virtual reality crime scene. There was blood made of ketchup, a stapler, handprints and of course, a dead body. Using a 360-degree camera, the team staged an imaginative crime…

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ABA releases 2018-19 law school data

December 17, 2018

ABA NEWS — Information about admissions and other matters reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools to the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and required to be made public under Standard 509 of Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools is now available.

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Digital LSAT to debut in 2019 through collaboration with Microsoft

December 17, 2018

LSAC — The Law School Admission Council announced a broad technology collaboration with Microsoft Corp. that will include the use of thousands of Microsoft Surface Go tablets as the LSAT exam transitions to a digital format beginning with the July 2019 LSAT test.

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U.S. law schools see higher enrollment in 2018

December 17, 2018

LAW.COM — New student enrollment at the nation’s law schools increased 3 percent this fall, according to figures released by the American Bar Association Friday. That represents the first measurable increase in the size of the first-year class since 2010

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University of Virginia Law Weekly celebrates 70 years

December 17, 2018

UVA LAW — Articles in the Virginia Law Weekly offer readers the scoop on a microcosmic community: that of a law student. Accumulated over 70 years, they create a powerful narrative of academic and social life.

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University of Virginia Law professors appointed to Federal administrative review agency

December 17, 2018

UVA LAW — Professors John Duffy and Michael Livermore of the University of Virginia School of Law have been appointed public members to the Administrative Conference of the United States.

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Villanova Law clinical program receives award

December 17, 2018

VILLANOVA LAW — The Saint Thomas More Society of Philadelphia has presented their annual Saint Thomas More Award to the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Clinical Program.

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