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The Legal Intelligencer

New Bar Exam Leader Looks to the Future of the Test

If there's one person who controls the fate of law graduates across the nation, it's Judith Gundersen.Gundersen stepped in as the president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners on Aug. 21 following the retirement of longtime president Erica Moeser. Gundersen is no stranger to the Madison, Wisconsin-based conference, which develops the national portions of the all-important attorney licensing exam. She has worked there for 17 years, most recently as the director of test operations where she oversaw the development and production of the bar exam.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

University Panel to Review FSU Statues, Campus Names

FSU President John Thrasher announces a review of all campus monuments to support "a more inclusive campus."
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Courts, Law Schools to Stay Closed Through Monday as Irma Nears

State courts in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties will be closed Sept. 11 due to Hurricane Irma.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In IEP Dispute, District Off the Hook for Girl's Private Tuition

A federal judge has ruled that Downingtown Area School District does not have to pay for the private-school tuition of a former student who left the district over dissatisfaction with her individualized education plan.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Courts, Law School Announce Hurricane Closures

State courts in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties and the St. Thomas University law school announce closures as Hurricane Irma barrels toward the region.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Post-Harvey, Houston Law Schools Reopen, With Challenges

The three campuses—the University of Houston Law Center, South Texas College of Law Houston and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law—all escaped serious damage and flooding, though some law faculty, staff and students have lost homes, cars and other property.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

University of Florida GC in Talks With Richard Spencer Over On-Campus Speech

The white nationalist leader had been scheduled to speak at the university, but was initially rebuffed after the crowd at a similar speech in Charlottesville turned violent.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Confederate Descendants Won the Case but Lost the Name in Microcosm of Today's Debate

Financial resolution ends court battle between Vanderbilt University and United Daughters of the Confederacy of Tennessee.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Original Steptoe Steps in to Advise 16 Different Schools

In a unique and somewhat unusual arrangement, 16 colleges across the U.S. have all agreed that just one law firm—West Virginia-based Steptoe & Johnson PLLC—will provide legal services to their institutions. Just don't confuse the firm with its Washington, D.C.-based doppelgänger.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

To Be a Fly on the Wall in a Trump-Focused Con Law Class

Trump's presidency has raised a number of tricky constitutional issues, from the more obvious ones of self-pardons to the more esoteric ones of understanding the Emoluments Clause and the 25th Amendment. Many of us at the bar studied law before Nixon's threatened impeachment or Clinton's impeachment but acquittal, and we may need refreshers on the intricacies of Article II Section 4.
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