- Sep 13, 2019
- Wolters Kluwer Legal Education
Aspen Advisor Week in Review for September 13th, 2019
Check out this week’s collection of interesting articles related to distance learning, law professors, legal education and other recent legal news.
Bar Exam
The national average score on the July 2019 Multistate Bar Exam rose 1.6 points from the previous year, which could indicate the beginning of a turnaround in sagging pass rates.
The average score on the July multistate bar exam has increased 1.6 points, the largest year-over-year July increase since 2008, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Southern California Institute of Law is one of two non-ABA schools that fell short.
Diversity
Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol says it will honor Dorothy Russell Crockett Bartleson, who was admitted to the bar in 1932 as the state’s seventh female lawyer, Tuesday. She was 21 years old at the time.
In court documents, DU denies its compensation system is discriminatory based on gender, race or other factors
A law student at Washington and Lee University who is planning an October wedding is challenging a Virginia law that requires couples getting married to list their race.
Law School Students
Among the castaways is 27-year-old Molly Byman, a Boston native, who is currently a law student in Durham.
Push through your law school experience as someone who embraces each failure, not as a defeat, but simply a thing to improve upon.
In this podcast, we're talking about how to bounce back after making a significant mistake -- one of those school, career, or personal screw ups that sometimes can be a major headache -- and what steps to take to ensure it doesn't happen again.
For most people, law school can be the ultimate goal. However, once your graduation date draws closer, it may suddenly dawn upon you that your future path may not be set out quite so clearly.
Newly-released data by the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) provides a compelling look at the importance of relationships in law school. Data from this Report, Relationships Matter, draw from the responses of more than 18,000 students at 72 law schools who participated in the LSSSE Survey in 2018.
Legal Education
Margaret Sova McCabe, dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, has named Susannah Pollvogt to serve as the school's first associate dean for student success.
Two law schools—the Western New England University School of Law and the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law—recently received public notice of being out of compliance with ABA accreditation standards
Some people will gladly get into this level of debt as they consider a law degree from one of these schools to be a status symbol.
Starting with this admissions cycle, Yale Law School will also accept Graduate Record Examinations as part of an application in place of the Law School Admission Test.
This is what happens when law school deans get a notice of noncompliance from the ABA
Updated:The Department of Education on Thursday approved the release of federal student aid to Florida Coastal School of Law, a for-profit, InfiLaw school, after the school submitted a letter of credit to the agency.
Florida Coastal School of Law announced Thursday that InfiLaw CEO Rick Inatome appointed Jennifer Reiber as interim dean and Peter Goplerud as president.
It's a trend that can't stop, won't stop.
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