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

Above The Law

What if instead you could get some hands-on lawyering experience and help others along the way? 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.

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Morning Docket: 01.13.25

Above The Law

* Will the rest of the Big 4 follow KPMG's lead into legal services? American Lawyer ] * Associates getting squeezed by new firm hiring model. [ Yahoo ] * New York joining NextGen bar exam train in 2028. Yahoo ] * New York joining NextGen bar exam train in 2028.

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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. The LJC concept, developed by the Collaboratory on Legal Education and Licensing for Practice at Touro College-Jacob D. Eileen Kaufman in a forthcoming paper in the University of St.

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Sitting Shiva For DEI And Junior Lawyers

Above The Law

If two absolutely equally qualified lawyers interview for the one vacant position, who gets it? Women lawyers have not been as successful as men in the rainmaking aspect of the profession. Do firms and corporate legal departments continue to observe DEI principles but on a sub rosa basis? So many questions. Is DEI dead?

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Why Regulatory Reform Is Desperately Needed in the U.S.

Attorney at Work

million lawyers in the United States. Nationwide, there are approximately four lawyers for every 1,000 residents, but the number doesn’t reflect the reality. Most lawyers work in urban areas, while many rural areas of the country have few or no lawyers. have less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents. .”

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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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The 2019 Florida Bar Annual Convention

LegalTalkNetwork

The ever thoughtful convention planners even arranged to have discounted spa services and child care available for those in need. . It was a special treat to see our good friend John Stewart ascend to the presidency of the Florida Bar as another good friend Michelle Suskauer passed the gavel to him.