Legal Education Roundup (Nov. 13, 2015)

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

• "Pass Rates Again Decline for State's July Bar Exam," The New York Law Journal
  • "New York bar pass rates at their lowest point in at least 11 years," ABA Journal

• "Cornell Law Plans to Offer Tech Degree at City Campus," New York Law Journal

• "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age," The New York Times
  • "Free the Law' project by Harvard's law library is scanning books for free Internet case database," ABA Journal

• "Grow' your law school? The what, why and whether of Denver Law," ABA Journal

• "How a 40-Year-Old Idea Became Education's Next Big Thing," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Client Transition Vexing Law Firm Leaders," The Legal Intelligencer

• "SAT's Racial Impact," Inside Higher Ed

• "Average Student Debt Climbed Higher in 2014, Study Finds," The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • "Student Debt, Rising Again," Inside Higher Ed

• "Georgia Bar Pass Rates Fall Again," Daily Report

• "Study Cites Lower Standards in Law School Admissions," The New York Times
  • "Law Schools Admit Those Unlikely to Pass Bar," Inside Higher Ed

• "The Law School Debt Crisis," The New York Times
  • "Is there a right way to respond to the 'Law School Debt Crisis" Editorial?," The Legal White Board

• "The Law-School Scam Continues: As bar-passage rates keep dropping at its for-profit schools, is InfiLaw taking advantage of students and the federal government?," The Atlantic
  • "This law school had a 30% bar pass rate; do lower standards presage troubled times for law grads?," ABA Journal
• "The Strange Case of Student Loan Debt," The American Lawyer

• "Firms Are Wasting Millions Recruiting on Only a Few Campuses," Harvard Business Review

• "At top law schools, law profs with PhDs and little legal experience become more common," ABA Journal