Legal Education Roundup (July 31, 2015)

Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.

• "Boston Law Schools Launch Joint Practice Incubator," The National Law Journal

• "Unpaid Internships Here to Stay?," Inside Higher Ed

• "Is the LSAT overrated by law school officials? Study shows need for holistic assessment, profs say," ABA Journal 

• "New Study Tries to Predict Law School Grades," The Wall Street Journal Law Blog 

• "NYU Law Unveils Clemency Pro Bono Law Office," The American Lawyer 

• "Medicine, Law, Business: Which Grad Students Borrow the Most?," NPR

• "Op-Ed: Law School Scholarships Foist Surtax On Neediest: Students with less-educated parents and lower LSAT scores accrue the most debt," The National Law Journal

• "The Withering of a Once-Great State University," Chronicle of Higher Education

• "LSAT test takers increase for third time in a row," ABA Journal

• "Jump in LSAT Takers Gives Law Schools Finally Something to Cheer," The Wall Street Journal Law Blog

• "Brooklyn Law School Offers a Safety Net for New Students," The New York Times
  • "Brooklyn to Offer Partial Refunds to Jobless Grads," New York Law Journal
  • "This law school will offer partial tuition refund to grads who don't find full-time jobs," ABA Journal
  • "Law School: Jobless grads will get some money back," Oneida Daily Dispatch
  • "Brooklyn Law School pledges to repay 15 percent of tuition if grads are jobless after 9 months," The Republic
  • "Law School's 15% Refund to Grads Who Can't Find Jobs," Inside Higher Ed
  • "Brooklyn Law School: Jobless grads will get some money back," Newsday

• "Indiana Law Freezes Tuition, With Three-Year Guarantee," The National Law Journal 

• "OCI Is Around The Corner; How Can Law Students Ace The 20-Minute Interview?," Above the Law