Legal Education Roundup (Oct. 9, 2015)

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

• "Is the Bar Too Low to Get Into Law School?," The New York Times
  • "A Shrinking Pool, But Committed Lawyers," Akin, Gump, Strause, Hauer & Feld LLP
  • "The American Bar Association Should Create a More Meaningful Bar Exam," Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
  • "Law Schools Need to Better Prepare Their Students," University of Wisconsin Law School
  • "Incoming Law Students Have Weaker Exam Credentials," University of St. Thomas School of Law
  • "The Bar Exam Is Not the Best Test of a Good Lawyer," Brooklyn Law School

• "Law School by Design," SLAW

• "ABA committee for third time proposes eliminating ban on academic credit for paid externships," ABA Journal

• "Campbell Law School Boosts Technology With Donation," Legaltech News

• "Prudent innovation’ at William Mitchell: Extending the reach of learning," ABA Journal

• "Professor Tanina Rostain has her students developing access-to-justice apps," ABA Journal

• "Bar Exam Scores Drop to Their Lowest Point in Decades," Bloomberg Business
  • "Scores on this Year’s Bar Exam May be the Worst in Decades," The Wall Street Journal Law Blog
  • "As Bar Exam Scores Continue to Plummet, Early Results Reveal Worst Performance In Decades," Above the Law
  • "Bar Passage at 27 Year Low," ALM