Law.com, 'I Felt Afraid to Ask': Law Students With Disabilities Are Often Torn Between Trying to Fit In and Seeking Accommodations: This is the first installment of a new Law.com series called, “Disabling Ableism: Making the Legal Profession More Accessible," which aims to highlight both the challenges and opportunities law students with disabilities face before,…

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NALP Foundation, Update on Associate Attrition: The NALP Foundation announces today the release of its newest annual Update on Associate Attrition, a detailed report on law firm associate hiring and departures for 2021. The Foundation has produced this signature report for over 20 years. The 2021 data from 125 participating firms in the U.S. and Canada showed radical…

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NewsOne, The KBJ Effect: How Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS Confirmation Has Inspired HBCU Law School Students: The confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court was a moment of triumph for nearly every Black person in this country. The joy that exuded from our community when her confirmation became official was beautiful…

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Wall Street Journal, Crypto Industry Can’t Hire Enough Lawyers: The cryptocurrency industry is ramping up efforts to recruit more legal talent as it faces increased regulatory pressure while looking to be accepted by and become part of mainstream finance. Crypto exchanges and companies are poaching attorneys left and right, from both law firms and other…

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Above the Law, Judge Blasts Students Who Admitted To Cheating On The Bar Exam Above the Law, Legal Scholar Just Guaranteed The Coolest Glow Up Story At 40th High School Reunion Above the Law, Harvard, What Is It Like, Good? Above the Law, The Law School Tops At Crim Law Above the Law, All’s Fair…

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Following up on my previous post, Anti-Semitism Roils NYU Law School:  David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Dean Trevor Morrison Speaks Out About Anti-Semitism Controversy At NYU Law: Last week, I covered a controversy at NYU Law School over allegedly anti-Semitic messages that went out over the law school listserv. The controversy has raged on since then, with…

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Following up on my previous posts: Charlie Adelson Is Arrested, Based On Newly Enhanced FBI Recording Transcript Of FBI Recording Of Conversation Between Charlie Adelson And Katherine Magbuana That Led To Charlie's Arrest Is Wendi Adelson Now A Suspect? David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), The Dan Markel Case: Charlie Adelson, Arrested: The arrest of Charlie Adelson…

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Law.com, 'I’ve Seen People Ask If Harvard Is "Good Enough"': Prospective Law Students Lament 'Toxic' Discourse Around Law School Admissions: Prospective law school students across the country are waiting to hear back from the schools to which they applied. It’s a nerve-wracking time—frequently made worse by social media, where anxiety tends to be stoked rather than…

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Following up on my previous posts (links below):  Chronicle of Higher Education, This University President Is Focused on Performance and Productivity. That Worries the Faculty.: The University of Missouri’s system office used to have a staff of 10, including two vice presidents. Now only two people are left. That’s been an intentional choice, to curb…

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Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel Murder: Charlie Adelson Arrested on Murder Charges in Broward County: Nearly eight years after FSU law professor Dan Markel was gunned down in his Betton Hills garage by hired hitmen, his former brother-in-law has been arrested in connection with his brazen, broad daylight murder. Charlie Adelson was booked, according to Broward…

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We are now 90% of the way through Fall 2022 law school admissions season. The number of law school applicants reported by LSAC is down 11.0% compared to last year at this time. 63 of the 199 law schools are experiencing an increase in applications. Applications are up 50% or more at 1 law school,…

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ABA Legal Education Section Releases Employment Data for Graduating Law Class of 2021: Employment data for the graduating law class of 2021 as reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools to the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is now publicly available. An online table provides select national outcomes and side-by-side…

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ABA Journal, Painter Donates $1M for Undergraduate and Law School Students Above the Law, Amy Wax. That’s The Headline. You Know What She Did. Above the Law, The Best Law School For Hands-On Experience Above the Law, Kim Kardashian’s Baby Bar Exam Essay Selected As Model Answer  Above the Law, Law School At The Top…

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Tom Sharbaugh (Penn State), Being #1 Isn’t Always a Good Thing—Loneliness Among Lawyers: Success as a lawyer can come at the expense of personal relationships. Is it worth the price? Few of my former partners in the global firm where I worked would understand my transition from a profits-first managing partner to a speaker and commentator on lawyer well-being.  How…

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Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget, How Much Student Debt Has Already Been Cancelled?: Though some policymakers continue to propose cancelling some, most, or all student debt, a great deal of student debt has already effectively been cancelled. Overall, we estimate the equivalent of $5,500 per borrower will have been cancelled by the scheduled end of the student loan payment pause on…

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Washington Free Beacon, Under Federal Scrutiny, NYU Law School Faces Uproar Over Anti-Semitism: New York University School of Law may be legally obligated to punish some of its star students after nearly a dozen student groups signed a statement that defended terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and bemoaned the “Zionist grip on the media.” The statement,…

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Chronicle of Higher Education, What’s Going On at Yale Law School? A Lot of Drama: Yale Law School has found itself in the news a lot lately. That’s not so much because it was once again ranked as the No. 1 law school in the country, or because of a new program that will cover…

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Richard Reinsch (Heritage Foundation), Are Law Schools Now Woke Factories?: Students at three recent college events threatened violence against conservative speakers, along with the student groups that invited them to speak on campus. This may be commonplace today, but what makes this hostility so much more shocking is that it occurred at colleges once considered…

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NCBE, National Mean of 132.6 for February 2022 MBE: The national Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) mean scaled score for February 2022 was 132.6, a return to the February 2020 mean after an increase to a mean of 134.0 last February. This February’s MBE was administered exclusively via paper-based, in-person testing after three administrations (July/September/October 2020,…

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Philadelphia Statement on Civil Discourse and the Strengthening of Liberal Democracy (Letter to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken) (Apr. 7, 2022): What happened at Yale Law School on March 10, 2022 was disgraceful. But it creates an opportunity for you to send a clear message to the country about the importance of free speech…

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Above the Law, Law School Rankings And The Grain Of Salt You Need Above the Law, You Know What’s Better Than Being A Lawyer? Starring In Bridgerton Gonzaga Bulletin, Gonzaga Law School Announces an End to Conditional Scholarships David Lat, The New U.S. News Law School Rankings Law.com, ABA Implements New Policy Aimed at Improving…

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