Karen Sloan

Law graduates who were unable to take Washington state’s July bar exam due to technological problems will have the option to be licensed to practice without ever taking the test, the ​Supreme Court of Washington said Thursday.

A testing company involved in California’s bungled February 2025 bar exam has reached a preliminary class action ​settlement with test takers who sued, according to a ‌federal court filing on Monday.

Playing fast and loose with the law school admissions rules comes with long-term consequences, apparently. Former Villanova University School of Law Dean Mark Alan Sargent and former University of Illinois College of Law assistant dean for admissions Paul Pless both have been disciplined for their roles in admission scandals.

Which new law students will perform the best academically during their first semester and be the most satisfied with their lives? Those who are realistically hopeful, according to research into the way hope and optimism affect law student performance.

Ave Maria School of Law isn't making the grade when it comes to financial responsibility, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The Catholic law school was the only law school to receive failing marks on the department's latest assessment of financial responsibility for nonprofit and for-profit colleges and universities.

Three years of work by students in Yale Law School's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic paid off in a big way last week, when a federal judge ruled that officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be sued for civil rights violations.

Law school was a hot ticket in 2026, with an 8% increase in applicants hoping to spend the next three years getting a J.D. rather than enter a lackluster post-college job market.

By Karen Sloan By Karen Sloan Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Education on Friday moved to strip the American Bar Association

Vanderbilt University is the new home of the Law and Neuroscience Project — a 3-year-old effort by scientists and legal scholars to understand how the brain influences the criminal justice system.

Another Christian Law School in the Works