ABA maintains ban on academic credit for paid externships
ABA JOURNAL – For the second time in little more than a year, the governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has rejected a proposal to lift the ban in the law school accreditation standards on students receiving academic credit for paid externships.
Read More about ABA maintains ban on academic credit for paid externshipsRaising the cap on federal student loans may prevent students from increased private loan debt
LOS ANGELES TIMES – “A world with less federal lending is not one where tuition is forced down — we know because it hasn’t been — but it is one where students (or their parents) must take on a worse kind of debt.”
Read More about Raising the cap on federal student loans may prevent students from increased private loan debtCourt rules against law student in bankruptcy filing on student loans
STATE BAR OF WISCONSIN – Mark Tetzlaff owes about $260,000 in student loan debt, including debt incurred while pursuing a law degree. Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that Tetzlaff’s student loan debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.
Read More about Court rules against law student in bankruptcy filing on student loansFlorida lawyers protest Florida Bar reciprocity proposal
ORLANDO SENTINEL – The president of The Florida Bar is at the center of a controversy over a proposal that would allow out-of-state lawyers to practice in Florida without taking the state’s Bar exam, considered to be one of the nation’s most rigorous.
Read More about Florida lawyers protest Florida Bar reciprocity proposalWomen face greater student loan challenges
VICE – Across the United States, women are staring down piles of student debt—bigger piles, in fact, than the ones facing their former male classmates. They’re also making less money with which to pay off that debt.
Read More about Women face greater student loan challengesLaw graduate employment rate up slightly over 2013
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS – Just one day after newly minted law school graduates finished this year’s bar exam, the National Association of Law Placement said that 87 percent of last year’s graduates have found jobs, a slight increase from the rate for those finishing law school in 2013.
Read More about Law graduate employment rate up slightly over 2013Southwestern Law Professor Christopher Cameron elected Vice Chair of the Los Angeles Employee Relations Board
SOUTHWESTERN LAW NEWS – Professor Christopher Cameron has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Los Angeles Employee Relations Board (LAERB), one of the city’s most important commissions.
Read More about Southwestern Law Professor Christopher Cameron elected Vice Chair of the Los Angeles Employee Relations BoardCalifornia shortens state bar exam to two days
ABA JOURNAL – California bar officials have voted to cut the length of the state’s bar exam from three days to two. The change, approved unanimously Monday by the State Bar of California’s board of trustees, will take effect in July 2017.
Read More about California shortens state bar exam to two daysBenjamin Crump sworn in as the new president of the National Bar Association
USA TODAY – Benjamin Crump, the national civil rights attorney who often represents the families of people of color whose rights allegedly were violated by police, was sworn in as the 73rd President of the National Bar Association.
Read More about Benjamin Crump sworn in as the new president of the National Bar AssociationCuts to Public Service Loan Forgiveness would discourage public interest careers
HUFFINGTON POST EDUCATION – A recent survey conducted by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) provides evidence that, at least in the legal profession, PSLF is helping promote long-term public interest careers.
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