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Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Law School Transfer Data and Professional Identity Formation:

As shown in Table 1 below, the number of transfer students received by law schools in 2024 increased slightly from 1162 to 1194, the second smallest number of transfers in the last decade, but as a percentage of first-year students, it remained flat at 3.0%. …

TABLE 1 – Number of Transfers and Percentage of Transfers from 2014-2024

Table 2 below lists the top 15 law schools participating in the transfer market in descending order in Summer 2021 (fall 2020 entering class), Summer 2022 (fall 2021 entering class), Summer 2023 (fall 2022 entering class), and Summer 2024.

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Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Law School Transfer Data and Professional Identity Formation:

As shown in Table 1 below, the number of transfer students received by law schools in 2024 increased slightly from 1162 to 1194, the second smallest number of transfers in the last decade, but as a percentage of first-year students, it remained flat at 3.0%. …

TABLE 1 – Number of Transfers and Percentage of Transfers from 2014-2024

Table 2 below lists the top 15 law schools participating in the transfer market in descending order in Summer 2021 (fall 2020 entering class), Summer 2022 (fall 2021 entering class), Summer 2023 (fall 2022 entering class), and Summer 2024.

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Update: Brian Leiter (Chicago), Law Schools Should Oppose an ABA Proposal to Double the Experiential Learning Credits From 6 to 12

ABA Journal, Should Law Schools Have More Hands-On Learning Requirements?:

Law students will need to get twice as much practical, hands-on experience before graduation if a proposal by the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions moves forward.

The Standards Committee released a memo on May 2 outlining recommendations to increase required experiential learning credit hours from six to 12, which would impact Standards 303, 304 and 311. At its quarterly meeting in Chicago on Friday, the council voted it be sent out for notice and comment.

“Three of the 12 credit hours must be in a clinic or a field placement where there is a real client being represented, so students get to learn about the attorney client relationship and managing that relationship,” said Carla L. Pratt, chair of the Standards Committee, at Friday’s meeting. …

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Update: Brian Leiter (Chicago), Law Schools Should Oppose an ABA Proposal to Double the Experiential Learning Credits From 6 to 12

ABA Journal, Should Law Schools Have More Hands-On Learning Requirements?:

Law students will need to get twice as much practical, hands-on experience before graduation if a proposal by the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions moves forward.

The Standards Committee released a memo on May 2 outlining recommendations to increase required experiential learning credit hours from six to 12, which would impact Standards 303, 304 and 311. At its quarterly meeting in Chicago on Friday, the council voted it be sent out for notice and comment.

“Three of the 12 credit hours must be in a clinic or a field placement where there is a real client being represented, so students get to learn about the attorney client relationship and managing that relationship,” said Carla L. Pratt, chair of the Standards Committee, at Friday’s meeting. …

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