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Nearly 25% of Law Schools Plan to Use JD-Next Admission Test
Nearly 25% of American Bar Association-accredited law schools have been granted a variance from Standard 503 to use JD-Next as an admission test, which can be used in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test and the Graduate Record Exam. Click Here To Read The Full Article
ABA Proposal for Accrediting Fully Online Law Schools Out for Notice and Comment
“I applaud the working group for coming up with this proposal,” Steven C. Bahls, president emeritus, said during the meeting. “It’s something that other professional creditors have done some time ago. And I believe that the American Bar Association is an outlier here, and I am particularly attracted by your argument that this creates an […]
How I Made Partner: 'Immerse Yourself in Building a Practice You Are Proud Of,' Says Charles E. Nelson of Ballard Spahr
“There is no one-size approach to making partner. There certainly is no checklist.” Click Here To Read The Full Article
8th Circ. Affirms Mount Rushmore Slip-and-Fall Dismissal Over Discretionary-Function Exception
“Even if this were an accurate characterization of the Government’s position, the argument belies our precedents. In determining whether the discretionary-function exception applies, we ask whether the challenged conduct is ‘susceptible to policy analysis,’ not whether it was in fact subjected to that analysis by the decisionmaker,” Judge Bobby Ed Shepherd wrote on behalf the […]