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New York Law Journal

Head of National Bar Exam Group Defends UBE

Addressing a concern among some New York lawyers that adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam might negatively affect minorities, the president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners testified Wednesday there has been no evidence of that in the 15 states that now use the test.
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New York Law Journal

St. John's and Buffalo Waive LSAT for Select Students

In August, the ABA changed its rules to allow law schools to admit 10 percent of students in their entering classes without the LSAT, which has allowed St. John's University School of Law and the University at Buffalo Law School to admit high-performing students from affiliated undergraduate programs.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Jury Awards Lawyer and Wife $16.5M for Crash With Logging Truck

A jury in the small town of Sandersville returned a $16.5 million verdict Wednesday against the owner of a logging truck that pulled out onto a rural Southeast Georgia highway, blocking the path of a pickup driven by a lawyer who was severely injured in the resulting crash.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Carey Foundation Gives $10M to Penn Law-Wharton Program

The University of Pennsylvania Law School has received $10 million from the W.P. Carey Foundation to endow the joint J.D.-MBA program it runs with the Wharton School.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Summer-Associate Hiring Increases for Fifth Straight Year

Next summer's law firm summer-associates class is likely to be the largest since 2009, data from the National Association for Law Placement show.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYCLA Joins Call for Delaying Adoption of UBE

A major New York bar association is urging that the adoption of the Uniform Bar Examination be delayed for at least a year until a number of questions are answered about the impact of the change.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Northwestern Law To Help Run JD Program in Qatar

Administrators from Northwestern University School of Law will help to establish the first U.S.-style law school in the Middle East.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

'Legal Rebel' Katz to Join IIT Chicago-Kent Law

Daniel Katz to assume leadership role at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Alumnae Honored for Excellence

Columbia Law School's 2015 Medal for Excellence, the school's highest honor, was awarded Friday to Southern District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum and to Paul Weiss partner Roberta Kaplan.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

An Elite Education's Going to Cost You

Tuition at U.S. law schools continues to increase even as demand for law degrees declines. And the increases are particularly pronounced at the elite schools that send the most graduates into the nation's largest law firms.
6 minute read

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