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How can law schools get faculty talking about NextGen readiness?
In a previous blog, Susannah Pollvogt addressed the importance of assessing students’ current readiness for NextGen-style question types. But how can you develop such an assessment tool?
Academic support and bar passage are growing fields in legal education, focused on equipping students with the academic and analytical skills necessary to perform their best in law school, on the bar exam, and in practice. Will the NextGen Bar Exam elevate the work of these professionals?
How is the NextGen Bar Exam different from the current Uniform Bar Exam, and how can law schools assess students' readiness for the NextGen exam?
At the most successful law schools, responsibilities for academic support and advising, professional identity formation, career development, and employment outcomes are shared by the whole law school.
We are innovating to provide a new writing assessment that responds to the evolving needs of the legal profession.
As you begin your exciting journey into law, LSAC has reimagined the ways we can support your success. With the goal of reducing barriers to legal education, our new Plus, Guided Journey program is designed to fit into your busy lifestyle by providing structured resources and proactive, tailored support.
For more than two decades, LSAC’s Plus program has been at the forefront of empowering aspiring law students. For 2024, the program has undergone a transformative redesign, enabling it to reach more students, offer increased support throughout the application journey, and collaborate with a greater number of law schools than ever before.
Legal employment outcomes are one important marker that we can look to, to measure progress on law school and legal employers’ efforts to diversity the profession.
My name is Lihán Harris. I’m the single parent of a beautiful little girl, a Hispanic immigrant, a U.S. Army veteran, and a first-generation college senior. And I will be a lawyer.