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Showing posts with label Law School Transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law School Transparency. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Three out of four test-takers failed the California Bar Exam in February: Do you still want to be a lawyer?

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This spring, pass rates for the California Bar Exam hit a historic low. Only 26.8 percent of the test-takers received a passing grade--abou...
Friday, March 8, 2019

"Robbery at its finest": Western State Law School May Close in Mid-Semester

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Western State College of Law, a nonprofit law school located in California, may shut down soon. If it does, Above the Law reporter Staci Za...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Iowa Wesleyan and Valparaiso Law School make brave decisions: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done"

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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." Who said that? I think it was some dead guy from the 19th century. C...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Thomas Jefferson Law School won't admit new students next spring: Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for the legal profession

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Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJ) announced it will not admit new students to enroll this spring. Why? Linda Keller , Thomas Jefferson...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Only about 1 out of 4 law school graduates passed the California Bar Exam last February

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Much like the Lusitania , legal education steams full speed toward its ultimate destruction, while law school deans and professors sip Calif...
Friday, December 1, 2017

The Rooster Bar: Why Won't the ABA Shut Down Bottom-Tier For-Profit Law Schools ?

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John Grisham's latest novel, titled The Rooster Bar , tells the story of Mark Frazier, a law student who attends a for-profit institutio...
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Monday, November 20, 2017

Law schools give most financial aid to students who need it least: Legal education is "rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell"

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To borrow a phrase from James Howard Kunstler, American law schools are going through their own private version of "The Long Emergency....
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Association of American Law Schools joins California in Boycotting Texas: Silly Prigs

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The Association of American Law Schools recently announced that it is boycotting Texas and moving its 2018 conference on clinical legal educ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2017

The Department of Education's "Heightened Cash Monitoring" list and its list of programs that failed DOE's Gainful Employment Rule: Big Trouble Ahead for American Higher Education

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As the Obama administration limps to a close, the U.S. Department of Education issued two lists that should scare the heck out of anyone wor...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Charlotte School of Law loses access to federal student aid money: The beginning of the end for bottom-tier law schools?

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In less than two weeks, Charlotte School of Law will lose all access to federal student financial aid money. CSL is a for-profit law school...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

American Bar Association begins cracking down on mediocre law schools: Too little, too late

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After waking from a long slumber, the American Bar Association is finally cracking down on mediocre law schools. A few days ago, the ABA cen...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Tetzlaff v. Educational Credit Management Corporation: The Seventh Circuit made a mistake when it refused to discharge a quarter of a million dollars in student-loan debt owed by an umemployed 56-year old man living on his mother's Social Security check

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals got it wrong when it affirmed a lower court ruling against Mark Tetzlaff, an unemployed 56 year-old ma...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Income-Based Repayment Plans are a fraud on college students: Reflections on Paul Campos' analysis of IBRs

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Don't Go To Law School (Unless) , Paul Campos' excellent book on the economics of legal education, was published in 2012, and I am e...
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