University of Arizona Law first to allow applicants to take GRE instead of LSAT
ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA (NPR) – The University of Arizona College of Law, students now have an alternative to the LSAT. Applicants can take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) instead of the LSAT, making it the first law school in the country to do so.
Read More about University of Arizona Law first to allow applicants to take GRE instead of LSATABA committee considers changes to bar-passage requirements for law schools
ABA JOURNAL – An ABA committee will take up a proposal that would toughen—and greatly simplify—the bar passage requirements of the law school accreditation standards.
Read More about ABA committee considers changes to bar-passage requirements for law schoolsABA House of Delegates supports two resolutions related to universal adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam
ABA JOURNAL – Law students seeking a more mobile practice got some encouragement from the ABA’s House of Delegates when it adopted two resolutions concerning the Uniform Bar Examination.
Read More about ABA House of Delegates supports two resolutions related to universal adoption of the Uniform Bar ExamOpinion: Five ways law schools are modernizing
FORBES – In their creation of the Connected Casebook, Savkar and his team at Wolters Kluwer have noted five major changes in the study of law which reflect some broader trends in the practice of law.
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FIR PODCAST NETWORK – James Greif, Director of Communications at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), discusses the AALS communication efforts during the 2016 AALS Annual Meeting.
Read More about Podcast: Event communications at the 2016 AALS Annual MeetingLegal sector experiences job losses in January; December gains revised
ABA JOURNAL – The legal services sector lost 1,400 jobs in January, according to seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read More about Legal sector experiences job losses in January; December gains revisedProposed ABA resolution raises controversial issue of non-lawyer firm ownership
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – A proposed ABA resolution calls for the adoption of “regulatory objectives for the provision of legal services” that would help “identify and implement regulations related to legal services beyond the traditional regulation of the legal profession.”
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STAR TRIBUNE – The University of Minnesota has seen the worst of hard times that hit the nation’s law schools — and things should start looking up. That was the prediction of the Law School’s outgoing dean in a Thursday presentation to U regents chock-full of sobering statistics and a dash of hopeful news.
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WVLT (CBS KNOXVILLE) – Students at the University of Tennessee College of Law can help worried taxpayers breathe a little easier. As part of the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, the students will offer free tax preparation help to members of the community.
Read More about University of Tennessee Law offers free help with income tax preparationUniversity of Washington Law students help wrongly convicted through Innocence Project NW
KXLY (SPOKANE) – Most law students go to school, hoping to some day make a change. For students involved with clinics at Innocence Project NW, they’re not waiting until after graduation to free the innocent and change the criminal justice system.
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