ABA Accreditation Committee

Revenge Is Best Served… Quickly: ABA DENIES Accreditation To School That Talked To The New York Times

Over the weekend, the New York Times unleashed a feature article about the role of the American Bar Association in keeping the cost of legal education absurdly high. The school profiled in that article was Duncan Law School, which was seeking provisional accreditation from the ABA. The article came out in print on Sunday. Everybody talked about it on Monday. And today, on Tuesday, the ABA denied Duncan its provisional accreditation....

By Elie Mystal

American Bar Association / ABA

To Stop the ABA, Do We Need to Allow Everybody to Start a Law School?

I’m really enjoying the newfound interest from the New York Times about the state of legal education. Times reporter David Segal seems genuinely interested in recording the growing tragedy of American law schools. Concern from mainstream media is great, but the proposed solutions are a little bit scary. Last month, Segal Slate explored the possibility […]

By Elie Mystal

AI Is Killing Legal’s Billable Hour. It’s Also Repeating Its Worst Mistake

Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?

By PERSUIT and Above The Law

American Bar Association / ABA

Law School Accreditation: What Is To Be Done?

Critics of the current legal-education model, including my colleague Elie Mystal, have accused the American Bar Association of failing to uphold sufficiently stringent accreditation standards. ABA-accredited law schools proliferate, even though thousands of law school graduates find themselves unemployed or underemployed. The ABA was recently chided by the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and […]

By David Lat

American Bar Association / ABA

Because Cooley Law Really Needs Another Campus

Boasting four campuses and more than 15,000 graduates in Michigan isn't enough for Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The nation's #2 law school needs MOAR CAMPUSES (and unemployed graduates). So, yet another Cooley Law campus will soon be invading a state near you on the east coast....

By Staci Zaretsky

American Bar Association / ABA

ABA Claims It Lacks Authority To Stop Proliferation Of Law Schools. And Claims It Doesn’t Matter Anyway.

About a week ago, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to the American Bar Association, essentially asking the organization to explain its lack of institutional control over law schools. Well, the ABA has now responded. If you’ve been following the ABA closely, you’re not going to be surprised by the response. It’s the usual […]

By Elie Mystal

American Bar Association / ABA

Potential President of Binghamton University Makes Sense When Asked About Founding a New Law School

Binghamton University — best known as the alma mater of the great Tony Kornheiser — is looking for a new president. They are in the process of interviewing a number of candidates, and one of those candidates is a lawyer. Jonathan Alger is the senior vice president and general counsel at Rutgers, and he’s on […]

By Elie Mystal

Schenck Price Competes Smarter With Lexis+ With Protégé

LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.

By The LexisNexis Pressroom

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ABA Accreditation Committee

Revenge Is Best Served… Quickly: ABA DENIES Accreditation To School That Talked To The New York Times

To Stop the ABA, Do We Need to Allow Everybody to Start a Law School?

AI Is Killing Legal’s Billable Hour. It’s Also Repeating Its Worst Mistake

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ABA Claims It Lacks Authority To Stop Proliferation Of Law Schools. And Claims It Doesn’t Matter Anyway.

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