Opinion: ABA should repeal admission test requirement
BLOOMBERG LAW — The American Bar Association Council on Legal Education is moving toward an outcome-based model of accreditation. This aligns with a broader reorientation in educational oversight across many fields.
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STAR TWO — A personal application is an integral part of applying to the law school of your choice. It is essential to understand that you have already done everything you had to for your ratings and rating. After all, you need to take care of your score, which will affect the final results.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Delaware’s Supreme Court has rejected arguments from an applicant who failed the 2021 state bar exam, that its Board of Bar Examiners arbitrarily adjusted scores for those who experienced computer problems while taking the exam.
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JACKSON COUNTY SENTINEL — On Friday, Roxana Ramos had her last day in the office of Circuit Judge John Graham, having served an internship as a clerk over the summer. Over the summer, Ramos spent time proof reading, typing orders, meeting with local attorneys and spending a day at each of the local law firms and…
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CISON PR NEWSWIRE — BYU Law today announced the addition of the Congressional Record Corpus to its Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora. A pioneering technology tool for the legal community, the Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform enables users to analyze large collections of historical texts called “corpora” for better understanding of context and meaning…
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BROOKLYN PAPER — A number of students, staff and alumni at the Brooklyn Law School are fighting to change the institution’s COVID vaccine disability exemption policy after at least two students say they were forced to leave the school temporarily or permanently when their medical exemptions were denied.
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BERKELEY LAW — Even though they led him to the current position he loves, Shenandoah Titus wouldn’t wish the circumstances on anyone. While working at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters in Washington, D.C. — ironically as program manager of the agency’s first anti-harassment unit — he says he was pressured by senior officials…
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BERKELEY LAW — Over the course of the summer, we are presenting some first-person accounts from Berkeley Law students immersed in fascinating work across the legal landscape. Much like the students themselves, the job opportunities and practical experiences they receive are diverse and extraordinary.
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BERKELEY LAW — Less than a year ago, Basira Qazizada seemed to have it all. Not even 30, she was an established judge at the Supreme Court of Afghanistan’s Kabul Commercial Primary Court, part of a burgeoning legal system providing hope and stability to the nation.
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UC BERKELEY — UC Berkeley and Imperial College London have won $5 million to create an international, interdisciplinary center aimed at advancing decentralization technology that offers users more control of their data, the Algorand Foundation announced today.
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