80% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 20% (Black Applicants Are Up 30%)

April 1, 2025

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares LSAC data from the Fall 2025 law school admissions season showing a significant increase in applicants from the previous year.    

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Summer Associate Hiring Hit All-Time Low In 2024; 78% Of 2025 Summer Associate Offers Were Made Before August 1

April 1, 2025

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a collection of articles discussing the decrease in law firm summer associate hiring offers to law students in 2024.  

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Law Profs’ Generative AI Sandbox

April 1, 2025

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares news that three law professors created the Generative AI Sandbox to help law faculty learn about artificial intelligence. 

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Teaching Law In The Age of Generative AI

April 1, 2025

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by John Bliss (University of Denver Law) that outlines what law professors should know about generative artificial intelligence.  

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2025 PLEDGE Bootcamp – AccessLex Institute – Request for Applications

April 1, 2025

(Academic Support Blog) — The author shares the announcement from the AccessLex Institute inviting teams of two to apply for a two-day training centered on developing skills related to evaluating student focused programs. 

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The Artificially Intelligent RPS Negotiation and Mediation Coach

April 1, 2025

Indisputably (by John Lande) — Professor Lande (University of Missouri Law) discusses his role in developing the Real Practice Systems artificial intelligence negotiation and mediation coach and discusses features of the program that could be useful to law professors. 

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Using RPS Coach in Simulations

April 1, 2025

Indisputably (by John Lande) — Professor Lande (University of Missouri Law) explains how Real Practice Systems artificial intelligence negotiation and mediation coach can be helpful when running mediation simulations for law students. 

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ABA Reiterates Suspension Of Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard In Wake Of DOJ Threat If ABA Does Not Eliminate The Standard

March 25, 2025

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — XDean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares that the ABA has reaffirmed that they will suspend the diversity accreditation for law schools following threats from the Department of Justice to push for their removal as an accrediting body if they do not comply.  

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AALS Call For Papers: Reflecting On The Journal of Legal Education

March 25, 2025

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Journal of Legal Education call for papers seeking articles reflecting on previously published scholarship.

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