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South Dakota’s Pilot Bar Alternative Switches Out Studying Outlines For Community Service

Above The Law

The Public Opinion has coverage: As many as 50 South Dakota law students will be able to bypass the bar exam over the next five years under a set of rules for alternative licensure recently approved by the state Supreme Court. The program will be open to up to 10 USD law students a year over a period of five years.

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America Needs a ‘Lawyers Justice Corps’: Paper

The Crime Report

A Lawyers Justice Corps should replace the bar exam as a certification of competence for new attorneys, argues Touro College Law Prof. Thomas Law Journal. Under the proposal, recent law school graduates would work for legal organizations that serve under-represented populations for at least one year.

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Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2023 and of All Time

LawSites

Most popular this year: My interview with Daniel Martin Katz and Michael Bommarito just after their first try at having GPT take the bar exam. Can GPT Pass the Bar Exam? LexFusion’s Joe Borstein and Casey Flaherty on the 2022 Legal Market in Review. Top 15 of 2023 1. We Find Out. Top 15 of All Time 1.

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Sitting Shiva For DEI And Junior Lawyers

Above The Law

If the law schools are now majority women, what does this order do to all those women and minority lawyers looking to succeed and finding that doors may once again be hard to pry open. Do firms and corporate legal departments continue to observe DEI principles but on a sub rosa basis? What about law schools?

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Wolters Kluwer 6th Annual Leading Edge Conference

LegalTalkNetwork

Here’s a shortlist of the many topics discussed (reworded and consolidated to avoid attribution): Bar Exam Passage. Economic Condition of Law Schools. New Designs for Law School Education. Law School Libraries. Diversity and Inclusion in Legal Education. Student Loan Debt.