Legal Education Roundup (Jun 26, 2020)

Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.

• "Oregon's Law Schools Ask Supreme Court to Waive Bar Exam Due to COVID-19. The Bar Is Not Pleased.," Willamette Week

• "As some law grads prepare for an online bar exam, academic support experts offer advice," ABA Journal

• "California Deans Urge Supreme Court To Not Leave Class Of 2020 Law Grads In Bar Exam Limbo," TaxProf Blog

• "Washington Supreme Court Grants Diploma Privilege To All Bar Applicants," TaxProf Blog

• "Second State Lets Law Grads Skip the Bar Exam Amid COVID-19," Law.com

• "How Law Schools Fared on the February 2020 Bar Exam," The Recorder

• "Only 5% Of Black First-Time Takers Passed February California Bar Exam, Compared To 52% Of Whites, 42% Of Asians, And 31% Of Hispanics," TaxProf Blog

• "Washington Supreme Court sunsets limited license program for nonlawyers," ABA Journal

• "Queens DA Launches 'Hybrid' Virtual and In-Person Internship Program Amid Pandemic," New York Law Journal

• "Pass/Fail Grading in Law School Gets Mixed Marks From Students," Law.com

• "The Law School Experience for Women of Color," Inside Higher Ed

• "Study Finds Minority Women Less Satisfied in Law School," Law.com

• "Research Spotlights Disparities for Women of Color in Law School," Bloomberg Law

• "4th Circuit Affirms Class Action Settlement With Defunct Charlotte Law School Paying $2.65 Million To Its 2,500 Former Students," TaxProf Blog

• "Faculty Call For Removing Name Of Segregationist Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice From Florida State Law School Building," TaxProf Blog

• "UNH Franklin Pierce Law School May Drop Name Of 14th U.S. President (1853-57) Because He Did Not End Slavery," TaxProf Blog

• "Students Demand Harvard Law School Reverse Its Decision To Be 100% Online In Fall 2020," TaxProf Blog

• "NYSBA Eyes Mandatory Cybersecurity CLE Credit, Citing Attorneys' Heightened Cyberrisk," New York Law Journal

• "Netflix CEO Donates Millions to HBCUs," Inside Higher Ed

• "Princeton, Northwestern Latest to Not Require SAT, ACT," The Wall Street Journal

• "UCLA to Go Mostly Remote in Fall," Inside Higher Ed

• "Harvard drops standardized test requirement for 2021," The Boston Globe

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