Legal Education Roundup (Jun 22, 2018)

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

• "USC Is the Latest Top Law School to Embrace the GRE," The Recorder

• "U. of Chicago Will No Longer Require ACT or SAT Tests," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "New Bill Would Protect Law Licenses of Student Loan Defaulters," Law.com

• "The 'think like a lawyer' approach to law school is outdated," ABA Journal

• "Judges Wouldn't Consider Forgiving Crippling Student Loans — Until Now," The Wall Street Journal

• "ABA, Cooley Law May Be Headed to Settlement in Accreditation Suit," Law.com

• "A Hidden Strength of Minority-Serving Colleges: Meeting Students Where They Are," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "ABA asks House members to oppose law ending Public Service Loan Forgiveness program," ABA Journal 

• "Florida International School of Law and the Bar Pass Secret Sauce," What Great Law Schools Do

• "The Problem with Law Schools? They Only Prepare Future Lawyers," Legaltech News 

• "New Study Finds Most Law Firms Mum on Mandatory Arbitration for Summer Associates," The American Lawyer

• "Law Schools Release Survey of Firms' Arbitration Policies," Inside Higher Ed

• "Nothing 'Sinister' in Forced Arbitration, Proskauer Lawyer Tells EEOC Task Force," The National Law Journal

• "In a First, ABA Yanks Accreditation from Struggling Law School," Law.com

• "Arizona Summit loses accreditation approval, which may be a first for an operating law school," ABA Journal

• "ABA Pulls Arizona Summit Law School's Accreditation," TaxProf Blog

• "Head Of Vermont's #1 Environmental Law Program Resigns As Law School Restructures," TaxProf Blog

• "Catholic University Board Approves Plan to Cut 35 Profs, Increase Teaching Loads," TaxProf Blog

• "State adopts Uniform Bar Exam for '19," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

• "Law Schools Are Failing Students of Color," The Nation