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Thursday, 19 June 2008 06:00 |
To hear many students tell it, law school is a guaranteed ticket to a well-paying career. So a recent milestone must have sounded like good news. The United States last week became the world's first nation of 200 accredited law schools, as the American Bar Association gave provisional approval to two North Carolina institutions. In other countries, it's much harder to become a lawyer. In the United States, the doors are open and getting wider. The 150,000 students enrolled in law schools last year were an all-time high. So adding more slots means even more avenues of opportunity, right?
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Monday, 12 May 2008 19:28 |
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February 2008 Bar pass rates have been released in Ohio. | School | First Time Pass Rate | Second Time Pass Rate | | Capital University | 94 | 60 | | Case Western University | 75 | 73 | | Cleveland State University | 95 | 54 | | Ohio Northern University | 100 | 50 | | Ohio State University | 100 | 36 | | University of Akron | 79 | 45 | | University of Cincinnati | 100 | 50 | | University of Dayton | 73 | 33 | | University of Toledo | 77 | 57 | | | | |
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 14:27 |
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 14:15 |
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 04:16 |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 16:08 |
Kunin to address law school gradsRutland Herald, VT - May 10, 2008 Madeline Kunin will be the keynote speaker at Vermont Law School's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17. Kunin was first elected to the General ... |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 15:20 |
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Written by Nasir N. Pasha
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Friday, 11 April 2008 09:07 |
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Bob Morse, director of data research at U.S. News & World Report, fielded a flurry of questions Friday about his publication's law school rankings. See the interview transcript here: Link. The answers may have been a little dissappointing, but you be the judge.
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Written by Stacey Scorza
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 07:39 |
 By mtsn at Flickr Pressure from the U.S. Department of Education led the American Bar Association (ABA) to propose and just this month pass a new interpretation of their accreditation standard on bar passage rates. The aim of this measure is to ensure that law schools adequately prepare students to pass a bar examination.
Accreditation by the ABA is granted where a law school meets their adopted Standards and Rules of Procedure for the Approval of Law Schools. It is also referred to as ABA approval. Provisional approval by the ABA is conferred where a law school establishes that it is in substantial compliance with the Standards and it also demonstrates that the law school is on track to full compliance within three years of the provisional approval. Students and graduates of provisionally approved law schools are given the same Juris Doctorate recognition as other ABA approved law schools. In most jurisdictions, a bar applicant cannot sit for a bar exam unless they have graduated from an approved or provisionally approved law school. As of June 2007, there were eight provisionally approved law schools in the U.S. |
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