Law schools see increase in applicants with top LSAT scores
ABA JOURNAL — The number of law school applicants jumped by 13% this year, the biggest hike since 2002.
Read More about Law schools see increase in applicants with top LSAT scoresABA legal education section to publish student loan data as part of required law school disclosures
ABA JOURNAL — Starting with the 2023-2024 school year, law schools’ Standard 509 Information Reports will include information about the number of students who receive student loans, and the data will be categorized by race, ethnicity and gender.
Read More about ABA legal education section to publish student loan data as part of required law school disclosuresA look at law school acceptance rates
ABA JOURNAL — If you applied to your favorite law school last year only to face rejection, you are in good company. According to the U.S. News & Report Short List, the average acceptance rate last fall, among 193 ranked law schools, was 44%. The average acceptance rate for students who began in the fall of 2020…
Read More about A look at law school acceptance ratesBelmont Law student Brandon Dragan wins ABA Journal writing contest
ABA JOURNAL — A law student in Tennessee is the winner of the 2021 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. The author is Brandon Dragan, who is entering his third year at the Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee. He will receive a $3,000 prize for his short story, “Advokat,” about a lawyer…
Read More about Belmont Law student Brandon Dragan wins ABA Journal writing contestUMass Law student Emily Dillan named to ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence
UMASS DARTMOUTH NEWS — Second-year UMass Law student was recently chosen as the Law Student Division Liaison to the national American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence. For more than two decades, the Commission has worked to increase access to justice for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking by connecting them…
Read More about UMass Law student Emily Dillan named to ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual ViolenceUniversity of Missouri Law professor Robert Jerry publishes article on insurance and the pandemic
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW — Mizzou Law Professor-Emeritus Robert Jerry published an article, “Insurance in a Post-Pandemic World,” in the ABA tort trial and insurance practice section publication The Brief‘s summer issue.
Read More about University of Missouri Law professor Robert Jerry publishes article on insurance and the pandemicABA advocates for change in bankruptcy code to allow for easier discharge of student loans
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION — The American Bar Association House of Delegates concluded its two-day meeting today after approving new policy that asks Congress to enact legislation to amend the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to permit student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy without needing to prove undue hardship.
Read More about ABA advocates for change in bankruptcy code to allow for easier discharge of student loansLegal education experts discuss ABA report on diversity in the legal profession
REUTERS — A recent American Bar Association study found that the legal profession in America has remained overwhelmingly white and male over the last decade and that racial diversity among lawyers has actually regressed in some respects.
Read More about Legal education experts discuss ABA report on diversity in the legal professionLaw class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemic
NATIONAL JURIST — The Class of 2020 had better first-time bar exam results than the previous, non-pandemic class. It passed at an 82.83% clip, compared to the 79.64% passing rate notched by the Class of 2019, according to American Bar Association statistics.
Read More about Law class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemicABA honors Northwestern Law professor Joyce Hughes and Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan with Margaret Brent Awards
ABA JOURNAL — The commission established the annual awards in 1991 to recognize and celebrate female lawyers who have achieved professional excellence within their specialty and helped pave the way for other women. It is named for Margaret Brent, who arrived in the colonies in 1638 and is recognized as the first female lawyer in North…
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