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LSAC Could Do Something Really Funny Next Month With LSAT Administration
If they mess up again, it will supercharge the 'Let's Get Rid Of The LSAT' conversations even more. - Sponsored
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
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Law Schools
The LSAT Will Probably Take The L Soon. What Now?
Shout out to all the splitters who had good grades, bombed the LSAT, and still did well in law school!
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Law School Applications Are Way Down And It's Bad News For The Profession
But not for the reasons you might expect. -
Law Schools
LSAT Test Platform Crashes Mid-Exam, Leaving Would-Be Law Students Scrambling
Eek! They aren't too thrilled with the resolution, either. -
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LSAT Scores Up, But Legal Job Market Unprepared To Absorb Number Of Potential Law Students
You know, you could look into other possible careers. -
Law Schools
Oh Snap! A Bunch Of LSAT Scores Were Lost.
A bunch of folks are going to have to take the LSAT. Again. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 07.31.20
* The Law School Admission Council has lost the scores for a number of individuals who took the July LSAT. The affected test-takers are being offered refunds, so there’s that… [ABA Journal]
* A New York ethics committee says that lawyers cannot practice law and provide wealth management services to the same clients. [Bloomberg]
* Check out this former Biglaw associate who quit her firm gig to launch her own estate administration startup. [LegalTech News]
* Employers across the country are being sued for allegedly failing to protect workers from being exposed to COVID-19. [Washington Post]
* Be sure to check out the ADL’s Supreme Court review next week. We can all use some CLE credits! [ADL]
* Fireworks companies are suing New York officials over COVID-19-related restrictions. Hopefully their lawsuit starts off with a bang…. [New York Law Journal]
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Law Schools
Law School Applications On The Rise Thanks To Bad Job Market
Law schools will happily take applicants' COVID cash. -
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Law Schools
The LSAT Is The Latest Victim Of COVID-19
Because applying to law school wasn't stressful enough. -
Law Schools
Oof! The Latest LSAT Administration Was A Nightmare
It was the Fyre Festival of standardized testing. -
Law Schools
Think You're Going To Take The November LSAT? Not So Fast...
Some students were left without a testing location.
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Law Schools
Holy Crap! A Ton Of Wannabe Law School Students Got Cold Feet
There were historic rates of LSAT score cancellation. -
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Law Schools
This Is Really Good News For Law School Fans -- More (And Smarter) Applicants Are Here
There are also big changes ahead for the LSAT. -
Law Schools
LSAC Now Lists 11 Different Gender Identity Options For Pre-Law Students
Welcome to the future of the legal profession. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.12.18
* “The chief justice, in particular, doesn’t like the court to be a disruptive force,” but that might change this spring as the Supreme Court considers reversing at least three of its longstanding precedents. Trashing precedents could potentially become much easier now that Justice Gorsuch is here. [USA Today]
* Berwin Leighton Paisner and Bryan Cave partners are voting on their proposed transatlantic merger, and the results are expected by the end of the month. If the tie-up is approved, BCLP — the combined firm’s new name — will be a billion-dollar firm with 1,500 lawyers and 32 offices in 12 countries. [Law.com]
* Charles Harder, the lawyer who brought down Gawker and now represents Donald Trump and members of his family, is experiencing some growing pains at his firm thanks to his presidential representation. Name partner Douglas Mirell just quit because of his “pledge to protect the First Amendment.” [The Recorder]
* New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a civil rights suit against the Weinstein Company and its founders, alleging that they “repeatedly and persistently treated female employees less well than male-employees through gender-based hostile workplace harassment, quid pro quo harassment, and discrimination.” [Variety]
* In an effort to increase diversity, LSAC will be awarding a total of $1.5 million to five law schools so they can hold Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars programs on their campuses. Akron, Alabama, Duke, Houston, and St. John’s will each receive these grants to convince college students to enroll. [Black Enterprise]
* Congratulations to Charleston Law’s National Tax Moot Court team, which just clinched its seventh championship title in a row. It’s nice to know that students were able to rise above the school’s designation as one of the “least selective law schools in the country” to create a tax law dynasty. [Post and Courier]
* Remember the former Ulta employee who accused the beauty retailer of reselling used products as new? Now a concerned customer has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit over the store’s “widespread and surreptitious practice” of allegedly repackaging and selling returned products. [Chicago Tribune]
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Thanks, Trump: Law School Applications Are On The Rise
The law school 'Trump bump' isn't an alternative fact, it's real. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.22.18
* Paramedics rushed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s apartment on Friday after the diabetic jurist experienced a low blood sugar episode. She was not hospitalized, and went to work because she’s “doing fine.” Somewhere, President Trump is cackling gleefully about one of his predictions. [POLITICO]
* After a months-long drought, the Supreme Court will finally issue some opinions today. This is the slowest the high court has been in issuing opinions since 1868. Did Justice Neil Gorsuch’s arrival on the bench set SCOTUS efficiency back by 150 years? [Big Law Business]
* Taylor Weyeneth, the 24-year-old who was recently appointed by Trump to be the nation’s deputy drug czar, is just like most Trump appointees without any experience. His résumé full of “errors,” and he forgot to mention that he lost his job at a law firm after not showing up. [Washington Post]
* “Even though David Boies has the energy of a 4-year-old, he is in the twilight of his career,” so a new generation of partners at the firm are preparing to move Boies Schiller into the future after Boies and Jonathan Schiller step back from their active leadership roles. [American Lawyer]
* A Dentons partner whose firm was gobbled up by the Biglaw behemoth last year has been suspended and placed on a leave of absence after word of his alleged inappropriate sexual behavior with female employees at his legacy firm for around to management. [American Lawyer via RollOnFriday]
* California has been going after the LSAC for years over its disability accommodations for people who want to take the LSAT, and now the state wants the council to be held in contempt. LSAC thinks California needs to study reading its comprehension. [The Recorder]
* Are you ready for some disparaging team names in football?! Many people are likely to continue calling them the “Washington team,” but in the wake of the Matal v. Tam Supreme Court case, the Fourth Circuit has officially vacated the decisions that canceled the Washington Redskins’ trademark registrations. [USA Today Sports]