Legal Education Roundup (May 8, 2015)

Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education. Changes to Law School Curriculum and Format

• "Arizona State University to offer freshman year online, for credit," The Washington Post
• "Promising Full College Credit, Arizona State University Offers Online Freshman Program," The New York Times
• "Arizona State and edX Will Offer an Online Freshman Year, Open to All," The Chronicle of Higher Education
• "MOOCs for (a Year's) Credit," Inside Higher Ed
• "Why law schools are losing relevance — and how they're trying to win it back," The Washington Post
• "Special Report: Law Schools," New York Law Journal
• "Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Future of Legal Education," Texas A&M University School of Law
• "Reasons to Be Gloomy About Legal Education," Washington University Law School
• "The Non-Virtuous Circle," New York University School of Law
• "Georgetown Law teams up with 2 firms to create 'low bono' law firm," ABA Journal
• "Georgetown Pairs Up With DLA Piper, Arent Fox, to Open Low Bono Firm," The National Law Journal
• "Ten Things to Toss: Third year of law school," The Washington Post

Lawyers of the Future

• "In Cambridge, Lawyers Debate Future of Their Profession," Bloomberg BNA
• "Next Generation of Lawyers' Social Media Use Could Impact Future Practice: New study found that teens report massive dependency on Internet use," Law Technology News
• "These Girl Scouts Are Going to Law School," The National Law Journal

Law School Admissions

• "The Smartest People Are Opting Out of Law School: Fewer people with high test scores are going to law school, and low performers are filling their slots," Bloomberg BNA
• "Law school brain drain: Fewer individuals with high LSAT scores are applying," ABA Journal
• "Number of Law School Applicants Has Bottomed Out, But Quality Of Applicants Continues to Plummet," Tax Prof Blog
• "The Wrong Sort of Law School Applicants, Visualized," Pepperdine