Legal Education Roundup (Sep 1, 2017)

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

• "Department Lays Out Options for Charlotte Students," Inside Higher Ed

• "Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago," The New York Times

• "Number of Women Law Profs Suing Univ. of Denver Rises to Six," Law.com

• "What Law Schools Can Do To Encourage Solo Practice," Above the Law

• "UC Berkeley School of Law to Launch 'Hybrid' LL.M. Program," The Recorder

• "'Law Mart'," Inside Higher Ed

• "NYU Law Center to Help State AGs Protect Environment," Law.com

• "NYU Law launches new center to help state AGs fight environmental rollbacks," The Washington Post

• "More law school deans call for lowering California bar exam cut score," ABA Journal

• "Lawyers and Grads Plea: Lower the Bar Exam 'Cut' Score," The Recorder

• "ABA Launches Legal Education Commission," Inside Higher Ed

• "Members of ABA's Commission on the Future of Legal Education named," ABA Journal

• "Law prof suggests ABA set an employment requirement for law school accreditation," ABA Journal

• "Charlotte Law School Closes With a Whimper," Law.com

• "Troubled Charlotte School of Law Will Close Its Doors, Reports Say," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "The Slow Death of a For-Profit Law School," Inside Higher Ed

• "UC Berkeley law school faces $2M in budget cuts," ABA Journal

• "ABA Will Consider Recent Change to Way it Counts Law Grad Jobs," Law.com

• "After transparency criticism, ABA law school employment questionnaire revisions postponed," ABA Journal

• "Amid Criticism, ABA Pulls Back on Change to How Law Schools Report Jobs," Law.com

• "ABA Legal Ed Council will talk more about how law school-funded jobs get reported," ABA Journal

• "ABA Report Promotes Changes to Treat Addiction, Depression," The American Lawyer

• "Some Law Schools Take the Lead in Students' Well-Being, Report Finds," The National Law Journal

• "ABA Calls for Bar Admission of Undocumented Law Grads," Law.com

• "Law Students Want ABA to Help Undocumented JD Grads Get Licensed," Law.com

• "Reduction in law school applications result in favorable upsides for some," ABA Journal

• "Georgetown Law launches center to fight for constitutional rights," ABA Journal

• "Northwestern's law school says it will accept the GRE as an entrance test," ABA Journal

• "Georgetown Joins List of Top Schools Using GRE for Admissions," Law.com

• "Shaking Up Law School Admissions," Inside Higher Ed

• "Two More Law Schools Won't Require the LSAT," Bloomberg

• "LSAT Leader Urges Caution in Law Schools' Use of GRE," Law.com

• "GRE as a Valid LSAT Alternative Requires Long-Term Study," Law.com