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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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