Weekly Legal Education Roundup

Lead story: Another important study of legal education appeared last month: Law School Transparency's 2025 Vision.  Excerpt: "When law schools price potential contributors out of the profession, they jeopardize the pipeline of students who want and can afford to protect the rule of law, deliver quality legal services, and narrow the justice gap. Myriad factors stand between good intentions and meaningful reform, but more accessible, affordable, and innovative law schools can become the new normal if we devote additional energy to changing the structural barriers that hold schools back."

Other legal education news:

• ABA Journal, Legal reform supporters will keep advocating for California sandbox proposal
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Provides Covid-19 Legal Resources For Those In Need
• Chicago Maroon, Law School Plans to Stick To ‘Status Quo’ Grading, Bucking Peers’ Move to Mandatory Pass-Fail
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), The Pernicious Influence of U.S. News Law Rankings on Law Schools: Two New Reports
• Harvard Crimson, ‘A Decidedly Suboptimal Set of Circumstances’: Harvard Law Professors Evaluate Online Instruction

• Diane Klein (La Verne), Of Prisoner's Dilemmas and Straw Men: A Response to Blackman, Adler, and Krauss on Law School Grading
• Michael Krauss (George Mason), Should Law Schools Grade Pass-Fail This Semester?:
• LST, Law School Transparency's 2025 Vision
• Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Some Thoughts About (and Mostly Against) Pass-fail Law School Grading During Covid-19
• Suzanne E. Rowe (Oregon), The Rising Tide in the Legal Writing Community: Lifting All Boats or Changing Climate?
• Karen Sloan (Law.com), 'Nobody Is Recruiting Over The Summer': OCI Season Postponed
• Karen Sloan (Law.com), With Pass/Fail Now the Norm, Outlier Law Schools Face Student Backlash
• Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting Group), How Will COVID-19 Impact Law Schools As The Summer Progresses?
• Susan Wawrose (Dayton), A More Human Place: Using Core Counseling Skills to Transform Law School Relationships
• U.S. News Specialty Rankings, Business/Corporate Law, Clinical Training, Constitutional Law, Contracts/Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, Health Care Law, International Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Writing, Tax Law, Trial Advocacy
• Christopher J. Walker (Ohio State), Legal Internships In The Administrative State During The Covid-19 Summer Of 2020
• Washington Times, Law Schools' Pass/Fail Decision Doesn't Ace All Tests
• Noah Zatz (UCLA), Crisis Grading Policy 2.0: Universality over Carve-outs
• Noah Zatz (UCLA), Grading in a Time of Crisis