Following up on my previous post, JD-Next: A Valid And Reliable Tool To Predict Diverse Students’ Success In Law School:  Law.com, ABA Approves 'JD-Next' as Admissions Test for UArizona Law, Other Schools With Variance:

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has been working on developing the JD-Next exam as an alternative law school admissions test since 2019, and on Friday the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions approved a variance for the law school to use the JD-Next exam for admission.

JD-Next, a national program designed to reduce disparities in preparation for law school and to provide a more reliable predictor of student success, can be used in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and Graduate Record Exam (GRE) at Arizona Law.

Additionally, the ABA Council invited other law schools to use JD-Next in lieu of the LSAT or GRE by filling out a simple variance request form, according to Marc Miller, dean and Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law at the University of Arizona Law.

Seven years ago, Miller was the catalyst for the ABA first allowing law schools to accept the GRE, on a case-by-case basis—until November of 2021 when the ABA Council voted to allow law schools to use the GRE in lieu of the LSAT without schools needing a variance to do so. Now more than 50% of ABA-accredited law schools accept the GRE for admission. …

JD-Next course is currently at the start of the fifth summer administration, which is fully online and introduces students to the kinds of doctrinal concepts and legal skills that students will encounter at law school, according to the JD-Next website.

The exam has been administered to over a thousand students from a 27 law schools over four years, according to JD-Next materials.