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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.
Anthony Shiver explores LawReady's academic program from his perspective as both an undergraduate faculty member and senior academic program manager on the LawReady team.
Our recent prelaw advisor webinar featured a conversation with Kimberly Saks, the prelaw advisor at one of our first LawReady schools, who discussed her experiences implementing LawReady.
Our first undergraduate institutions have begun to offer the LawReady program on their campuses. We are excited to be working with these trailblazing schools!
With the continued growth and development of LSAC’s LawHub, Khan Academy and LSAC believe students will be best served by having one centralized place to go to prepare for the LSAT, and that place should be LawHub.
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.
The ABA recently voted to allow law students to earn up to 50% of their credits through distance learning. This expanded opportunity for online learning will increase access to legal education.