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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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Morning Docket: 01.13.25

Above The Law

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

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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. Supervisors would certify LJC members after six months of supervised practice, replacing the bar exam while still mandating that LJC members satisfy their state’s other licensing requirements.

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Sitting Shiva For DEI And Junior Lawyers

Above The Law

Since NFL football is the quintessential old boys club, will Roger Goodell and the league get a pass? Since women now make up the majority of incoming law school classes, what happens now? It looks as if AI (aka ALSP — Alternative Legal Service Providers) may soon have even a lock on the grunt work we all did.

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

Attorney at Work

He serves on his judicial district committee to conduct lawyer fitness interviews and no one in their multi-county judicial district has taken the bar exam in the past three years. In 2012, South Dakota was one of the first states to tackle the problem of legal deserts. Access to legal services is going down.

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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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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. In addition, they need to prepare students for a bar exam process that they have no control over. Student Loan Debt. Economic Condition of Law Schools. New Designs for Law School Education.