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18 May 2020, 10:20 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Summer Associate Programs and COVID-19: How Law Firms Are Responding: A firm-by-firm guide to how Big Law is shifting its summer plans in light of the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
18 May 2020, 12:15 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), It's Real and It's Spectacular: A Free Summer Class on 'Seinfeld' and the Law: The Newman U.S.P.S. [read post]
14 May 2020, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Federal Judicial Clerkship Hiring Process Revamped Due to COVID-19: The federal clerk hiring process, like so many other things, will get a COVID-19 remodeling this summer. [read post]
13 May 2020, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous post, ABA Fast Tracks Proposal To Waive Accreditation Standards Due To COVID-19: Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Council Contemplates Expanded Powers, New Distance Ed Rules: The American Bar Association began mulling changes to its law school accreditation rules surrounding distance education long before COVID-19 forced all... [read post]
7 May 2020, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Bar Exam Set for July, but Many States Still Delaying: The July bar exam is a go. [read post]
4 May 2020, 1:05 pm by lennyesq
By Karen Sloan  *** Deans from 20 law schools outside of New York have written to the state’s bar authorities, advocating for increased capacity for the September test to ensure their graduates don’t get shut out. *** Read more… [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Is Online Legal Education Making the Grade? [read post]
25 Apr 2020, 9:35 am by Paul Caron
Press Release, University Of Michigan Faces Up To $1 Billion Loss From COVID-19, Announces 5%-10% Executive Pay Cuts, Salary And Hiring Freezes, Voluntary Staff Furloughs Karen Sloan (Law.com), Arizona Law School Dean: Due To COVID-19, International Student Enrollment 'Is Not Going To Slow Down—It’s Going To Shut' Bryan Camp (Texas... [read post]
25 Apr 2020, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Unprecedented: Massachusetts to Offer Its Own Online Bar Exam—If Necessary—Amid COVID-19: Massachusetts will create and deliver its own online bar exam if it’s unsafe to administer the traditional test in late September—the rescheduled date for the July exam. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Hit by Financial Fallout From COVID-19: Pay cuts, salary freezes and furloughs are hitting law schools as university systems grapple with massive budget shortfalls caused by the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 10:20 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Due to COVID-19, Fewer International Students Could Hit Law Schools—Hard: International students have become an increasingly important component of student bodies and budgets at U.S. law schools over the past decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic appears likely to shut off—or at least dramatically narrow—that pipeline for the... [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 3:47 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), February's Average Multistate Bar Exam Score Hits All-Time Low: The national average score on the Multistate Bar Exam—the 200-question multiple-choice portion of the attorney licensing test—fell 1.4 points from the previous year to land at 132.6, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which develops the... [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), How Will COVID-19 Disrupt Law School Admissions? [read post]
11 Apr 2020, 7:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Utah Poised to Let Law Grads Skip the Bar Exam Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Utah looks to be the first jurisdiction to embrace a temporary diploma privilege program amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which will allow recent law graduates to be admitted to practice without taking and passing the... [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous post, During COVID-19 Pandemic, Harvard Law School's 46 Clinics Continue To Virtually Serve Clients: Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law School Clinics Across the Country Offer Coronavirus Help: Law school clinics and programs have pivoted in recent weeks to focus on legal matters involving COVID-19—even as their... [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), With Bar Exam in Limbo, Momentum Builds for Supervised Practice Programs: Law students across the country have joined forces to lobby state courts and bar examiners to adopt emergency diploma privileges that would allow them to skip the bar exam altogether due to the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 2:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Remaining 'T-14' Law Schools Yield to Mandatory Pass/Fail Pressure: Every law school in the so-called T-14 has now adopted mandatory pass/fail grading, as the handful of holdout schools announced revisions to their policies over the last three days. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), With Pass/Fail Now the Norm, Outlier Law Schools Face Student Backlash: Law students at Arizona State, University of Georgia and Georgia State are among those pushing campus administrators to adopt mandatory pass/fail grading. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Amid More Bar Exam Delays, Push for Diploma Privilege Grows: New York on Friday became the first jurisdiction to officially postpone the July bar exam, clearing the path for others to follow suit, including Massachusetts and Connecticut, which both announced Monday that they will also postpone the... [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 12:18 pm by Paul Caron
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Adopt Pass-Fail Grades As They Move Online Amid COVID-19 Cass Brewer (Georgia State), Free Online Content: Business Taxation/Subchapter K Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Last Known Address Rules And The Rule... [read post]