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ABA Shelves Update to Expanded Law School Diversity Policy for Now

Posted by James Nault on February 28, 2024 9 Comments

American Bar Association not ready to make changes to law school accreditation standards for diversity in light of SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case...

Can the American Bar Association Save Free Speech at Law Schools?

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 18, 2024 6 Comments

"would require law schools to adopt policies protecting the free-speech rights of faculty, staff, and students"...

American Bar Association Walks Back Plan to Drop LSAT Requirement

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 13, 2023 4 Comments

"The LSAT rule has been a source of heated debate for years, but the latest push to abolish it began in early 2022."...

American Bar Association: First-Time Bar Pass Rate for Black Candidates in 2022 Was Below 58%

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 14, 2023 60 Comments

"We know that education was significantly disrupted by the pandemic, and that the effects of the pandemic were significantly worse for Black Americans and other historically marginalized communities"...

Distinguished Law Faculty Call on ABA to Reconsider Resolution Defining Antisemitism It Pulled Under Activist Pressure

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 20, 2023 24 Comments

Law professors call the widely respected IHRA definition deleted by the ABA "an invaluable educational tool for understanding how Jews experience antisemitism today" ...

American Bar Association Reviving Effort to Eliminate LSAT Requirement

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 19, 2023 6 Comments

"It first attempted to get rid of the admission test rule in 2018 but backed off when it became clear that the House of Delegates would not go along with the plan."...

Left-wing Activists Pressure American Bar Association Not To Adopt Widely-Accepted IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 29, 2023 11 Comments

LIF finds itself in the unusual position of complimenting the ABA for its resolution; will ABA cave the way Harvard Dean Elmendorf did?...

“American Bar Association, in its role as an accreditor, should not be partisan in [the current culture] war”

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 22, 2023 10 Comments

I'm quoted in an article in The Epoch Times on today’s legal education culture war: “[ABA] decisions should be based solely on academic criteria and how we best train lawyers, not how we best train lawyers who follow a particular ideology.”...

American Bar Association Flunks Hofstra Law School For Insufficient Diversity

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 18, 2022 14 Comments

There’s no indication so far that Hofstra did anything wrong, besides hiring too few non-white people and too few female adjunct faculty....

Legal Insurrection Foundation Files Brief Opposing Pennsylvania Attempt To Punish Lawyer Speech It Deems “Discriminatory” or “Harassing”

Posted by Johanna Markind on October 28, 2022 6 Comments

PA’s Disciplinary Board appealed to Third Circuit after district court enjoined Rule 8.4(g) as an unconstitutional encroachment on free speech....

American Bar Association Files Brief Supporting Disciplining Lawyers Who Offend Protected Groups

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 29, 2022 27 Comments

ABA files amicus brief in pending case testing legality of a Pennsylvania professional conduct rule muzzling lawyers’ supposedly offensive speech, clearly intended to mandate adherence to leftist race and other politics....

Pushback Mounts Against American Bar Association Plan To Ditch Required Standardized Admissions Testing

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 06, 2022 17 Comments

Law school deans and LIF head William Jacobson all oppose dropping the LSAT/GRE as making it harder for schools to identify qualified applicants, minority or other. Is that why ABA wants to get rid of it?...

American Bar Association Drops Proposal for Racial Quota System at Law Schools

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 14, 2022 7 Comments

"after more than a year of warnings from law professors that the plan would force schools to violate federal law"...

Jewish Students/Faculty Complain to American Bar Ass’n that CUNY Law School Discriminates With Pervasive “Anti-Zionist” Anti-Semitism

Posted by Johanna Markind on July 12, 2022 10 Comments

The complaint letter charges CUNY Law discriminates against students, faculty, other employees, and prospective students, faculty, and employees, and that the law school faculty’s recently-adopted BDS policy puts the school out of compliance with ABA req'ts. Meanwhile, NYC Council Higher Ed Committee grills CUNY over...

Debate: Should American Bar Association Be Stripped Of Its Monopoly Law School Accrediting Power?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2022 23 Comments

This morning at 10:40 a.m. through Noon I'll be participating in a panel discussion at The Federalist Society conference on whether the American Bar Association should be stripped of its monopoly power on accrediting law schools in light of mandates recently passed requiring, among other things, race-focused study for law students, and a pending proposal for "equity" focused education initiatives for students and faculty.

American Bar Association Abusing Its Accreditation Power To Force Race-Focused Study On Law Students

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2022 24 Comments

The American Bar Association once was a proxy for the American legal community. That was long, long ago. It has since moved to the left in many ways, so much so that Republicans now reject reliance on ABA judicial-nominee evaluations and ratings. ABA is just another group captured by the long march through institutions.

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