Karen Sloan
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New York, NY, United States
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Unprecedented: Massachusetts to Offer Its Own Online Bar Exam—If Necessary—Amid COVID-19
The state will offer a Massachusetts-only online bar exam in September if it's unsafe to deliver the traditional test—a first among jurisdictions. → Read More
Law Schools Hit by Financial Fallout From COVID-19
The University of California system, the University of Arizona, Harvard University and the University of Michigan are projecting massive budget shortfalls, and law schools are feeling the impact. → Read More
Due to COVID-19, Fewer International Students Could Hit Law Schools—Hard
Due to the coronavirus pandemic will foreign lawyers enroll in LL.M. programs offered online if in-person classes don't resume in the fall? Will they be able to obtain student visas if campuses reopen? Law schools are weighing their options. → Read More
Ditching the Bar Exam Puts Public at Risk, Says Test Maker
The National Conference of Bar Examiners has warned that allowing law graduates to skip the test because of the coronavirus could lead to numerous problems. → Read More
Utah Poised to Let Law Grads Skip the Bar Exam Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
The change would make the state the first to embrace an emergency diploma privilege due to COVID-19, and it could prompt other states to follow suit. → Read More
With Bar Exam in Limbo, Momentum Builds for Supervised Practice Programs
Permitting law grads to skip the bar exam for full licensure looks increasingly unlikely. At least three jurisdictions have unveiled programs to allow 2020 law graduates to practice under supervision while they wait to take the test. → Read More
At-Home LSAT Set to Debut Next Month Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
The April LSAT is canceled. But for the first time ever, aspiring lawyers will be able to take the admissions exam at home, on their own computers. → Read More
Two Fall Bar Exam Dates Set as Alternatives to July Test
The National Conference of Bar Examiners is giving jurisdictions options for rescheduling this summer's licensing test. → Read More
What To Know About Student Loan Relief In the Coronavirus Aid Package
Derek Brainard the director of financial education at AccessLex Institute unpacks the student loan relief provisions within the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package and how lawyers borrowers should proceed. → Read More
With Pass/Fail Now the Norm, Outlier Law Schools Face Student Backlash
Law students at Arizona State University of Georgia and Georgia State are among those pushing campus administrators to adopt mandatory passfail grading. → Read More
$5M Coming to Law Students Struggling Financially Amid COVID-19
AccessLex Institute will give every ABA-accredited nonprofit law school $25,000 to distribute to students facing financial hardship. → Read More
Georgia Weighs Options as Other States Delay Bar Exams
Law students have been lobbying for an emergency diploma privilege that allows them to bypass the bar exam but jurisdictions are leaning toward postponing the test until the fall. → Read More
Amid More Bar Exam Delays, Push for Diploma Privilege Grows
Law students have been lobbying for an emergency diploma privilege that allows them to bypass the bar exam, but jurisdictions are leaning toward postponing the test until the fall. → Read More
New York Postpones July Bar Exam Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
New York has taken the National Conference of Bar Examiners up on its offer for jurisdictions to postpone the July bar exam until the fall. → Read More
Fall Bar Exam Added, Fate of July Test Uncertain Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
The National Conference of Bar Examiners is giving jurisdictions the option to postpone the July bar exam until the fall but a growing number of law students want an emergency diploma privilege that will allow them to skip the exam. → Read More
No Bar Exam? That's What 1,000 Law Students Want NY to Declare Amid COVID-19
A state bar task force is considering an emergency diploma privilege for third-year law students—an approach endorsed by more than 1000 current students. → Read More
'People Are Pissed': Pass/Fail Grading Controversy Roils Law Schools
The University of Chicago Law School on Tuesday became the first top law school to say it will retain traditional grading for the spring semester while many peer schools have moved to passfail grading. → Read More
July Bar Exam Alternatives Under Consideration Amid COVID-19
A group of legal educators are pushing bar examiners to come up with alternative ways to license this year's crop of law grads amid the coronavirus outbreak. → Read More
Top Law Schools Say Firms Are Pushing to Delay Summer Associate Hiring
Law firms say they want the delay in part because a move to to passfail grading for the spring semester will muddy the hiring process. It's also unclear whether firms will even be in a position—or have the need—to dispatch partners to law schools for interviews in late summer. → Read More
Law Schools Adopt Pass-Fail Grades as They Move Online Amid COVID-19
At least five highly ranked law schools have said they are moving to passfail grading this semester—a change that could disrupt the normal law firm summer associate hiring process. → Read More