ABA reaffirms suspension of law school diversity standard amid White House executive orders
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION — The ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, reiterated that Standard 206, the American Bar Association’s standard concerning access to legal education, has been suspended and is not being enforced.
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BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF LAW — Florida became the first state to signal a potential break from American Bar Association accreditation of law schools Wednesday, attacking the national legal group in a court order over its emphasis on diversity.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — The California State Bar leaders who oversaw the February Bar Exam that glitched and crashed widely must now decide how to clean up the mess.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — It’s day one of the bar exam, and the first essay question is on a subject you don’t recognize. You’ve just had the dream every attorney in the US has had at least once—the standard bar exam nightmare.
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REUTERS — Law firm summer associate hiring hit an all-time low in 2024, as firms took a “conservative” recruiting approach, according to the National Association for Law Placement.
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ABA JOURNAL — On-campus interviewing by law firms has “firmly tumbled from its place of prominence” in the recruiting of summer associates, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
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AOL — The dean of Georgetown University Law Center on Thursday rebuked a threat from the acting US attorney in Washington, DC, that he would not hire the law school’s students if it does not remove diversity, equity and inclusion from its curriculum.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO — The University of Toledo is investing in its academic leadership team naming several interim deans to the permanent roles leading the University’s law, engineering and medical schools.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry when I heard about the letter to Georgetown Law School Dean William Treanor from Ed Martin Jr., interim US attorney for the District of Columbia.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Law schools are updating their honor codes to cover use of artificial intelligence in response to students’ rapid uptake of AI.
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