Erica Moeser
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Law Schools
All The Cool (And Smart) Kids Are Staying Away From Law School
If you're smart, you probably want to steer clear of law school. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.18.17
* “It’s a terrible signal for this group to be holding their meeting at the Trump International Hotel and for a Supreme Court justice to legitimate it by attending. It just violates basic ethical principles about conflicts of interest.” Justice Neil Gorsuch is under fire for speaking at an upcoming event at the Trump International Hotel just two weeks before SCOTUS will hear arguments in the travel ban case. [New York Times]
* After 23 years, National Conference of Bar Examiners president Erica Moeser will be retiring from her job on August 21 and handing over the reins to Judith Gundersen, the NCBE’s director of test operations. If you recall, Moeser once infamously — and most likely, correctly — said that plummeting bar pass rates were due to “less able” test takers. Enjoy your retirement! [Law.com]
* With funding of almost $6 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies, NYU Law is launching the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, in an effort to assist state attorneys general who “don’t begin to have the resources to meet these challenges” fight any of the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle environmental protections and climate policies. [Washington Post]
* Jacqueline B. Jones, the lawyer who called in a bomb threat to the federal courthouse on the day she was supposed to defend herself against being sanctioned, is set to plead guilty today to third-degree falsely reporting an incident. She faces jail time and up to $15,000 in fines. [Syracuse.com]
* “The story’s true. I’m not doing anything. I barely show up to work and I’ve been caught.” The spokesman for New York’s Office of Court Administration accidentally left a message for a reporter who was working on a story about his truancy on the job, laughing about how he “barely” showed up to work, just after lying and saying the reports were false. Oopsie! [New York Law Journal]
* “In an era of alternative news and fake facts, the ABA should be the definitive source of real facts when it comes to the law.” Check out the ABA’s new online resource, the legal fact checker, a website where members of the public can learn about what the law says regarding current events in the news. [ABA Journal]
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Bar Exams, Sponsored Content
MBE Scores Are At An All Time Low -- Are You Less Likely To Pass The Bar Exam?
Not if you study smart and choose a bar exam plan that works for you.
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Bar Exams
NCBE President Doesn't Want To 'Enrage' Law Schools By Calling Graduates' Ability Into Question (Again)
She already said recent graduates were "less able." What's stopping her from doing so again? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.22.16
* Many law school deans are opposed to the ABA’s proposal to require 75 percent of graduates sitting for a bar exam to pass it within two years, but this is perhaps one of the more absurd arguments offered against the rule: “Nobody looks at what percentage of Ph.D.s end up as college professors, or […]
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Bar Exams, Screw-Ups
Mis-scoring Of Bar Exam Continues To Haunt Impacted Students
"[I]t’s very difficult to make something this terrible right." -
Bar Exams
Surprise! Despite All Expectations To The Contrary, Bar Exam Scores Went Up This Year!
Bar exam test takers proved the experts wrong! -
Bar Exams
Big Changes Coming To The Multistate Bar Exam In February 2017
Test-taking skills will play an even greater role in passing the bar exam. - Sponsored
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Law Schools
Law Schools Reveal Their Future Plans For The LSAT And GRE
Is the LSAT doomed to be a relic of the past? Law schools weigh in! -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Multistate Bar Exam Average Score Plummets To Three-Decade Low
How can this downward trend be stopped? -
Bar Exams, Law Schools, LSAT
The Great Law School Brain Drain Is Why More People Are Failing The Bar Exam Than Ever Before
Shockingly, the worst is yet to come in terms of bar exam passage lows. -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Law Schools Are To Blame For Dizzying Drops In Bar Exam Passage Rates
How could bar exam passage rates possibly remain the same when law schools have loosened their admissions criteria? -
Bar Exams
New York Bar Exam Results Reveal Worst Pass Rates In More Than A Decade
This is terrible. How bad is the damage?
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Bar Exams, Sponsored Content
Ask The Professor: Who’s To Blame For The Falling Bar Exam Pass Rates?
If law schools are admitting less qualified students to fill seats and then blaming them for failing the bar, who let whom down? -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
As Bar Exam Scores Continue To Plummet, Early Results Reveal Worst Performance In Decades
What do these terrible test scores say about the current state of legal education? -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.14.15
* Here’s a tip to grab a few minutes of down time at a law firm. [Daily Lawyer Tips]
* 9th Circuit makes a move to save the honey bee. [Earth Justice]
* More July bar results are in, and… they aren’t good — just like Erica Moeser predicted. [Bar Exam Stats]
* A trio of lawsuits suggest that Trump University (basically a bunch of seminars, so one day you can declare bankruptcy just like Donald Trump) is nothing but a scam. Kinda like a certain presidential campaign I know. [The Slot]
* Supreme Court clerk feeder judges: still white and male. [Slate]
* How can you work the trend and be an un-lawyer? [Law and More]
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Bar Exams, Law Schools
Law School Dean Blames Lazy Students For Terrible Bar Passage Rate
Which law school's bar passage rate has taken a turn for the worse? -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Who Is To Blame For The Dumbing Of The Legal Profession?
What's responsible for the dumbing down of America's lawyers? Spoiler alert -- law schools are to blame. -
Bar Exams, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Law School Deans, Law Schools, LSAT, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.11.14
* While she may have “one of the broadest and most expansive roles” in West Wing history, thanks to this article, Valerie Jarrett can add a new title to her résumé: “Obama Whisperer.” [New Republic]
* Alumni from failed firms — or “dead firm alums,” which makes them sound like ghosts — have been having reunions to remember the good times at their former Biglaw homes. Aww, cute. [Am Law Daily]
* Everyone’s freaking out about the decline in bar exam scores, even deans. Brooklyn Law’s dean got into it with the NCBE’s head over her “offensive” comments about July ’14 takers. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Speaking of the bar exam, here’s a comparison between the amount students pay in law school tuition and the likelihood of passing the test on the first try. Spoiler: it doesn’t really matter. [Huffington Post]
* Here’s how to determine how badly you screwed up the LSAT. Step 1) Realize you took the test because you don’t know what else to do with your life. No more steps. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, LSAT
When Bar Scores Plummet, Who Will Examine The Examiners?
What caused bar exam pass rates to drop across the country? We don't know -- and we can't know....