Legal Education Roundup (May 9, 2025)

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

• "Trump's Attacks on Firms Scramble Law Students' Career Paths," Bloomberg Law

• "Trump executive order says ABA's role as law school accreditor may be revoked," Reuters

• "Trump wants to overhaul the way colleges receive federal student loans and grants as part of DEI crackdown," Business Insider

• "More than 1,100 law students back Susman Godfrey in its lawsuit over Trump order," Reuters

• "Student Amicus Brief Signals Recruitment Troubles for Firms Making Deals With Trump," The American Lawyer

• "Law Students Sue EEOC Over Demands for Big Law DEI Hiring Data," The Legal Intelligencer

• "New York Mulls Return of Bar Exam's In-Person State Component," Bloomberg Law

• "Silicon Valley lawmaker pushes to open CSU's first public law school at San Jose State," Local News Matters

• "Law Schools Report Record-High Application Rates as Numbers Continue to Skyrocket," Law.com

• "90% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applications Are Up At 190 Of 196 Law Schools," TaxProf Blog

• "Kuehn: How New Lawyers Value Law School Experiential Training," TaxProf Blog

• "JD Degrees Awarded to People of Color Reaches All-Time High in 2024," The American Lawyer

• "AccessLex Institute 2025 Legal Education Data Deck," TaxProf Blog

• "Law Schools Admit More Men, But More Women Are Applying," Law360

• "February bar exam scores dropped in big states," Reuters

• "More than half of reporting states see drop in February bar pass rates," ABA Journal

• "'You, As Law Students, Have a Choice': Berkeley Dean Says to Eye Whether Firms Fought Executive Orders or 'Capitulated'," The Recorder

• "US probes Harvard and its law review for 'race-based discrimination'," Reuters

• "Harvard Probed by US Agencies for Law Review Discrimination," Bloomberg Law

• "California Law School Deans Want NCBE Questions Returned for July Bar Exam," The Recorder

• "State Bar Defends AI Use on Bar Exam, Asks Calif. Supreme Court to Lower Passing Score," The Recorder

• "California considers scrapping revamped bar exam after botched test rollout," Reuters

• "Judge Grants TRO for International Students With Revoked Visas," Connecticut Law Tribune

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