Christine Charnosky

The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association amended the WSBA admission policies on May 1.

This is the first time the State Bar of California has approved a new legal specialization in more than 20 years, making California only the second state, joining North Carolina, to have a certificate in privacy law.

“The challenge for law schools is to teach students how to effectively use AI, but to prevent it from being used to cheat on exams or papers,” said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, adding that the school is looking to “do both” by incorporating it into the legal writing classes and offering courses about AI and the law.

Nearly five months after rescinding an offer of the deanship to Emily Suski, the university announced the appointment of Emily Guzman as the law school's interim dean effective July 1.

The campus in Great Falls, Montana, will offer a hybrid learning model based on Touro Law Center's FlexTime J.D. program.

The comments “require decision-makers to confront (or at least be aware of) competing viewpoints and the practical consequences of proposed changes,” professor Verónica Gonzales told Law.com. “Even when outcomes do not change, the process itself remains important for transparency, accountability and institutional legitimacy.”

On Sept. 1, Elon University School of Law will begin receiving applications for the full-time J.D. program that will start in Charlotte in August 2027.

A total of 88 current and former law deans signed a letter showing support for the "Principles for the Independence of the Legal Profession."

The Law School Admission Council partnered with the National Association for Law Placement to administer the 2025 LSAC Matriculants Survey to learn about 1Ls' reactions to Big Law early recruiting.

Howard A. Glickstein, who helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, served as dean of Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center for nearly two decades.