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The Columbia Law School Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic released a startling study, surprising for two reasons. First was the point of the study. Despite higher test scores and undergraduate GPAs, there has been a 7.5% drop in the number of blacks admitted compared to 1993, along with an 11.7 percent decline for Mexican-Americans.
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The Illinois law school admissions scandal has claimed what should be its last victim. Richard Herman, the chancellor at the University of Illinois resigned. While Dean Heidi Hurd was the mastermind, it sounds like Herman put the plan into practice:
Herman, 67, was the principal enforcer of a shadow admissions system that allowed subpar but well-connected [...]
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Maybe some people out there were still suffering under the delusion that there were not enough lawyers. If so, please pull your head out of the sand and look around. If the rising tide of lawyer layoffs and associate deferrals wasn’t enough to convince you, this should. Above the Law is reporting that the University [...]
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The most selective law school in the country isn’t Yale, Stanford or Harvard. It isn’t Chicago or NYU either. Actually, they haven’t even held a class yet. Yesterday UC-Irvine issued a press release announcing that it was the most selective law school in the country, surpassing all the top law schools, as UC-I admitted only [...]
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The title of this article is pretty misleading because it does not sound like the University of Alabama is going to drop the LSAT for all students anytime soon, but the Tuscaloosa News has a piece on how Alabama is joining [a growing number of law schools](http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090405/NEWS/904049968/1007?Title=UA-law-school-may-drop-LSAT-standard) that are dropping the LSAT for their own [...]
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