Legal Education Roundup (Aug. 14, 2015)

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

• "Job Placements Up For Smaller Class of Law School Grads," The National Law Journal
  • "Shrinking number of law graduates boosts employment rate for class of 2014," ABA Journal
  • "Employment Rate for New Law School Graduates Rises by More Than Two Percentage Points — But Overall Number of Jobs Falls as the Size of the Graduating Class Shrinks," NALP
  • "Employment Rate of New Law Graduates Up for the First Time Since 2007," NALP (PDF)

• "Law Schools Fight Bar Association Over How Graduates' Jobs Are Counted," The Wall Street Journal

• "The Best Legal Job Market for Millennials? Tax Law," The Huffington Post

• "ABA Panel: Better Student Debt Counseling Needed," The National Law Journal
  • "ABA Should Just Say No to Student Debt Report," Am Law Daily
  • "ABA Task Force Report Dodges Student Debt Reform," Am Law Daily

• "NYU Law School will research decline in civil jury trials with $2M gift," ABA Journal 

• "California bar exam to be one day shorter, but could be just as difficult," ABA Journ
• "BU Law, Alumni Boost Public-Interest Fellowships," The National Law Journal

• "Fewer Candidates Expected to Sit for July Bar Exam," The New York Law Journal

• "Investigation Finds High Dropout Rates at Unaccredited Law Schools," The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • "90% Drop Out of California's Unaccredited Law Schools," Inside Higher Ed
  • "About 85 percent of law students at California's unaccredited schools drop out," ABA Journal

• "George Washington U. Won't Make Applicants Submit SAT or ACT Scores," The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • "George Washington University applicants no longer need to take admissions tests," The Washington Post
  • "George Washington U Goes Test Optional in Admissions," Inside Higher Ed

• "Schools Collaborate on Baltimore Legal Practice Incubator," The National Law Journal

• "Prelaw Students Sweating Over Earning Good Grades," The National Law Journal