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Former FBI Director James Comey is returning to Columbia Law School this January. Comey previously taught at Columbia’s law school before his appointment as FBI Director by the Obama [...]

Yesterday, we reported that Western Michigan was going to vote on cutting ties with Cooley Law School. We can now update that story and report WMU did, indeed, vote to end its affiliation with [...]

Tomorrow, the Western Michigan University trustees will meet to decide if the school should end its affiliation with Cooley Law School. Back in 2013, the two schools agreed to an affiliation [...]

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School received a $50 million gift from the Robert and Jane Toll Foundation. It will be used to fund scholarships for students interested in pursuing [...]

Cleveland State University and the University of Akron are exploring a “joint operating model” law school that would allow students at both universities’ law schools to take [...]

Florida Coastal School of Law and the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law became the first two of the ten schools that received notices of non-compliance with [...]

Not that long after requesting permission to open a new campus in Kalamazoo, the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced it will close another campus. Pending approval [...]

A bad summer for standardized test companies looks like it’s getting even worse. The LSAC announced that roughly 140 LSAT test scores have been lost. (We’re not sure why the LSAC [...]

The University of South Dakota announced that it received a historic gift of $12.5 million from T. Denny Sanford. As a result of the gift, the law school is being renamed after his friend and [...]

JD Journal is reporting that law schools expect the Class of 2023 to be roughly the same size as the Class of 2022. We recently blogged that a late surge in law school applications put the total [...]

In a rather surprising turn of events, law school applications are now 0.3% above last year’s level as of July 13. There has been an application surge over the past six weeks that has made [...]

First-time LSAT test-takers will have an additional option beginning next month. The LSAC, the group that administers the LSAT, will allow you to see your score before it gets reported to the law [...]

The faculty at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law released a statement that Franklin Pierce’s policies were against their commitment to racial justice and voted [...]

Last week, Interim Dean Latonia Haney Keith announced that Concordia University School of Law was going to permanently close this fall. The school was forced to reach this difficult decision [...]

The 2021 US News & World Report law school rankings were released and there aren’t any big changes among the T14. Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, and University of Chicago were the [...]

The University of Oregon School of Law has dropped the LSAT requirement for some OU students. Specifically, OU students with a GPA at or above 3.5 at graduation and an SAT or ACT score in the [...]

The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar ruled Florida Coastal School of Law is out of compliance with two sections of Standard 202. Both Standard 202(a) and Standard [...]

As of November 23, 2020 law school applications and law school applicants are both up. Specifically, law school applications are up 1.7% and law school applicants are up 4.9%. The average number [...]

The ABA announced it rejected the Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s appeal to retain its national accreditation. Consequently, Thomas Jefferson will lose its ABA accreditation on December [...]

We’ll take our crow with a side of hot sauce. Thanks! This didn’t quite unfold the way we thought. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School declared yesterday that they would [...]

That didn’t take long. The first weekday after Penn announced it was changing the name of its law school to Carey Law, there is a petition with over 500 signatures from students and alumni [...]

The University of Pennsylvania’s law school received a record $125 million gift from the W.P. Carey Foundation. As a result, the school has been renamed and is now known as the University [...]

Our law school admission timeline has been updated for recommended September and October activities. Please check in periodically. This page is updated every two months to reflect the evolving [...]

The Seton Hall University School of Law announced that it is also accepting the GRE. This is effective right away for all law school applicants. Unless we missed a recent announcement, we believe [...]

The numbers are in. Out of the 23,000 who took the July 2019 LSAT, roughly 11,500 of them opted to cancel their scores. That’s 50% and it’s significantly higher than our internal [...]

The good news is that the LSAT is dumping the logic games section. The decision was reached as a result of eight years of litigation and a new settlement between Angelo Binno, a legally blind law [...]

The University of Chicago Law School will be offering a three-year, accelerated version of its JD/MBA program starting next year. The four-year track will still be an option for those students [...]

The University of Maine board of trustees decided to separate UMaine Law from University of Southern Maine. The move will be effective in 2022. While UMaine Law has always been independent of [...]

Penn State Law – Dickinson is now accepting the GRE. Just like its sister school, the GRE will only be accepted when there is no LSAT on file. Bekah Saidman-Krauss, assistant dean for admissions [...]

The hits just seem to keep coming for Florida Coastal School of Law. Just over a year ago, the school was seeking a restraining order against the ABA over its accreditation issues. Fast forward [...]

Two more law schools announced that they too will be accepting the GRE beginning this fall. For all applicants. Not just joint-degree or other special categories. And (“wait, there’s [...]

The University of Georgia School of Law announced that its Butler Commitment Fund will once again guarantee financial aid to every veteran applicant accepted for Fall 2020 matriculation. Please [...]

We don’t believe this is the tipping point, we’re certainly inching closer to it with every announcement of an additional school that will accept the GRE. This time, it was T14 member [...]

Earlier today, Penn State announced it will begin accepting the GRE from all law school applicants. This move comes after a trial launched this past February. At that time, only joint-degree [...]

Harvard Law School is launching a new Animal Law and Policy Clinic. Animal law clinics have seen dramatic growth. While there were only nine such clinics in 2000, there are 167 today. Professor [...]

As of July 31, 2019 law school applicants were up 3.3% to 62,427. The number of law school applications, however, was down 1.5% to 379,696. So, while the season started with a roar (applicants [...]

Yale Law School announced it will begin accepting the GRE this fall. The reason given is to “provide applicants with additional options and flexibility.” We hope this leads to more [...]

Add Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law to the list of law schools that accept the GRE. Jennifer Collins, the law school’s dean explained the decision to accept the [...]

So what’s your guess? Including undergraduate debt, how much average student debt do you think the average law school graduate has? Well, according to the National Center for Education [...]

Beginning in September, test takers will not be able to take the LSAT more than three times in a year or five times in five years. This represents a rather quick reversal of the LSAC’s move [...]

Columbia Law School Professor Elizabeth Lederer will not seek reappointment to her part-time teaching assignment. Her decision comes in the wake of the release of a new miniseries from Netflix. [...]

Florida Coastal School of Law can breathe a huge sigh of relief. The ABA found the school to be in full compliance with its admissions standards. Consequently, graduates will have little trouble [...]

The strange tale of Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. just seems to continue to become … well … even more strange. After returning over $21 million and removing his name from the law school, [...]

Earlier today, the ABA announced it was stripping Thomas Jefferson School of Law of its accreditation. Sadly, the move does not come as a surprise to those who have followed the law schools. [...]

Through the end of May, U.S. law school applicants are up 3.6%. More specifically, 59,228 U.S. applicants have applied to law school through the end of May this year. This compares to 57,169 who [...]

It’s out with the new and in with the old at the University of Alabama. That is, after the University of Alabama Chancellor Finis St. John recommended trustees return a record $26.5 million [...]

After failing in January, the ABA passed a revised version of Standard 316. Accordingly, at least 75% of graduates who sit for a bar exam must pass within two years of graduation. The three [...]

Vermont Law School (VLS) appears likely to be sanctioned. This is a result of a scathing report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). You see, the AAUP was very upset VLS [...]

As of May 1, law school applicants are up 2.46% over last year. However, the total number of law school applications is down by 2.43%. So clearly applicants aren’t applying to as many law [...]

The new ABA employment outcome data is out. Not surprisingly, the Class of 2018 achieved the highest legal employment rate in over a decade. Fully 78.6% of Class of 2018 grades obtained [...]

University Magazine released its 2019 rankings of the top law schools in Canada. That is to say, non US law schools are also ranked. If you are interested in practicing law in Canada, there are [...]

Weil, Gotshal & Manges is committing $1 million a year to a public interest program for law school admittees. Students admitted to Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, NYU and Penn are eligible for [...]

We just published a new video. It reviews the three most common law school personal statement mistakes. We hope you enjoy it. You can subscribe to our Youtube channel by clicking this link. [...]

Earlier today, The University of Chicago Law School received a $13 million gift from 1973 alum David Rubenstein. This gift will bolster the Rubenstein Scholars Program. This program provides [...]

William Carney is a retired Emory law professor. Just over four years ago, he donated $1 million to the law school. He just asked the ABA and American Association of University Professors to [...]

There are many ways a consultant can help you with your law school applications. The first is a consultant can help you assess your general strengths and weaknesses in the admissions process. The [...]

Yale Law School has come under fire for perceived religious bigotry. Generally speaking, we try to remain apolitical. So, when this story first broke, we left it alone. Now, however, it seems to [...]

Washburn University School of Law launched a new program called “Third Year Anywhere.” The program takes advantage of a new rule allowing students to take up to 30 credit hours [...]

Earlier today, Florida International University announced its law school will now accept the GRE as well as the LSAT. This is effective immediately. Consequently, FIU should be able to gauge the [...]

1. Rehashing your resume The most common mistake is definitely rehashing the resume. The applicants who make this mistake simply repeat what was already in their resumes. Consequently, they waste [...]

The April edition of our Insider Edge newsletter will be published on Monday. (Not an April Fool’s joke. We promise!) In addition to exclusive savings offers, this month’s issue will [...]

It’s official. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School as a distinguished visiting professor. According to GMU’s student [...]

We are often asked if it is important to attend a top law school. Not surprisingly, the answer to this, like so many other questions, is, “it depends.” More specifically, it will vary [...]

Georgetown University Law Center purchased a $70 million building directly south of its campus. The 130,000 square foot building provides additional space for the law school. Additionally, it [...]

The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) released good news earlier this week. Biglaw offer rates to summer associates jumped to almost 97%. Furthermore, the acceptance rates of those [...]

US News just released its 2020 law school rankings. The top five law schools remain Yale, Stanford, Harvard, University of Chicago and Columbia in that order. Also in the T14, UVA and Michigan [...]

The estate of Allison and Dorothy Rouse left George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School $50 million. Not surprisingly, it represents the largest gift ever received by the [...]

In news that should not shock anyone, it’s not easy to be a conservative at Yale Law School. In an article on the Federalist, third-year student Aaron Haviland details some of the snarky [...]

It turns out the ‘Trump Effect’ may be a bit overrated. Through the end of February, 45,178 law school applicants submitted 289,664 applications. Consequently, 2019 law school [...]

The early word is officially in. Firstly, the free LSAT prep material from Khan Academy has proven popular with law school applicants. Furthermore, usage is particularly strong among African [...]

A Kaplan survey found the political mood is having a growing impact on applicants’ decisions to pursue law school. Interestingly, it also found 46% of respondents wished to attend a school [...]

Penn State Law at University Park has joined the growing list of law schools accepting the GRE. However, only joint-degree applicants will be able to submit the GRE. Furthermore, these applicants [...]

U.S. News & World Report is now analyzing the scholarly impact of law faculties. The major law school rankings publisher is partnering with HeinOnline to aggregate the faculties’ [...]

The Florida Coastal School of Law announced earlier today that it requested the ABA’s permission to become a nonprofit law school. It also announced it was pursuing an affiliation with a [...]

We just updated our law school book reviews. Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School was just added as a direct result of favorable feedback from alumni clients. We work hard to peruse our [...]

Earlier today, the ABA voted against the amendments proposed last month to Standard 316 (Bar Passage) of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools. This proposal sought [...]

Vanderbilt Law School received a $12.75 million gift from Mark Dalton, JD’75 that is earmarked to endow the school’s Law and Business Program for perpetuity. Chancellor Nicholas S. [...]

We’ve been tracking the planned closure of Valparaiso University’s law school and it now appears much more certain that the school will indeed close in May 2020 as Valparaiso’s [...]

The Wall Street Journal has a nice article about how the ABA’s Office of the Managing Director of Accreditation and Legal Education is renewing its push to evaluate law school accreditation [...]