Tag: LawSchools
ABA Gives Troubled Law School Three More Years of Accreditation
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The school was put on probation in 2017, and the council withdrew its ABA approval last summer.
Some Harvard Law Students Are Avoiding Applying To Clerkships With Trump-Appointed Judges
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Some legal scholars worry that the reluctance of students at one of the nation’s premier law schools to clerk for Trump-appointed judges could further polarize the legal profession.
Law School Transparency Still Fighting Status Quo After a Decade
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One of the early findings of the 10-year-old nonprofit was that high starting salary salaries often listed for law school graduates were based on a low number of alumni responses.
Law Schools With Accreditation Issues See Bar Exam Improvement, But Will They Hit 75% Pass Rate?
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The mean scaled score for the July 2019 multistate bar exam increased this year, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Law Schools With the Greatest Resources for Women
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The findings are based on school reported data — the percent of the student body that are women — and student surveys.
The Best Law Schools in the World
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Six of the top 10 law schools are in the United States: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Columbia and New York University.
Controversial Bar Passage Standard Adopted by ABA Legal Ed Council
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The ABA’s legal education council approved the tighter standard at its May 17 meeting.
Law Schools Where Starting Salaries for Graduates Exceed Their Student Loan Debt
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Several law schools are not only highly ranked, but their graduates are very well-compensated after graduation – in fact, they’re so well-compensated that it makes up for the high costs of their education, Above the Law reports.
Bar Pass Rate for Law Grads Shows Little Movement; Which Law Schools Did Best?
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The bar pass rate for 2016 law grads who sat for the exam within two years of graduating is 88.57%, according to ABA data released Friday.
The 2017 Law School Rankings – Changes at the Top
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Above the Law has released its updated statistics on law school employment outcomes, which are entirely outcome-based – by how well their students do upon graduating.
