Legal Ed News Roundup

• ABA Journal, In Recently Released Data, ABA Parses Out Bar Passage Rates By Race, Ethnicity and Gender
• ABA Journal, After Spike Up in 2021, MPRE Mean Scaled Score Slightly Decreases
• ABA Journal, One-time Jailhouse Lawyer Creates Legal Jobs Program for the Formerly Incarcerated
• ABA Journal, After 20 Tries, Law Grad Passes the Bar but Is Barred From Law Practice in Massachusetts
• ABA Journal, If You Pass the Bar on First Attempt and Want to be a Lawyer, You're Likely to get Hired, 2021 Grads Say
• ABA Journal, Numbers Show Slight Increase in Two-Year Bar Pass Rates
• ABA Journal, What is in the Audio That Led Prosecutors to Charge Dentist in Law Prof’s Murder?
• Above the Law, The Law Schools With The Highest LSAT Scores (2021)

• Above the Law, NYU Law Appoints New Dean
• Above the Law, Unexpected Law School Stands Among Members Of T14 For Best Bar Exam Pass Rates
• Above the Law, Anti-Semitic Speaker At Georgetown? Let’s See Who’s At The Bottom Of This. Black People!
• Above the Law, The Price Of Law School Is The Lowest It’s Been In 5 Years
• Above the Law, Three Students Sue Law School For Violating First Amendment Rights
• Covington News, Emory to Remove Covington Lawyer's Name From Law School Professorships
• Daily Business Review, Law Firm Sued by UPS, Bar Exam Results and John Ruiz' Billions: The Most-Read Stories of April
• Daily Report Online, ABA Releases Bar Passage Data: 3% Decrease for First-Time Takers, Even Lower for Georgia Students
• Daily Report Online, ‘Preserve What We Have’: Fulton County Law Day Returns After 2-Year Pause
• Law360, Emory Removes Pro-Slavery Ex-Justice's Name From Titles
• Law360, First-Time Bar Passage Rate Dipped In 2021
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), A Change to the USNews.com Ranking Formula That Would Actually Be Salutary
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), Seven Law Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), What Are Standard Law School Teaching Loads These Days?
• Derek Muller (Iowa), Breaking Down My Many Posts on USNWR Metrics
• Derek Muller (Iowa), Visualizing the 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings--The Way They Should Be Presented
• New Jersey Law Journal, BAR REPORT - May 2, 2022
• New York Law Journal, Troy McKenzie, NYU Law's First Black Dean, to Take the Reins June 1
• New York Law Journal, Hofstra's Law School Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Raises $20M
• New York Law Journal, 'I Felt Afraid to Ask': Law Students With Disabilities Are Often Torn Between Trying to Fit In and Seeking Accommodations
• Law.com, 'I Had It Hard, Why Shouldn’t You?' Lawyers Say Female Managers Are Tougher on New Moms
• Law.com, Mizzou Law Dean Lyrissa Lidsky Stepping Down
• Law.com, Legal Education and the Almighty 'A'
• Sacramento Bee, The Founder of This Law School Helped Murder Native Californians. Should Tribes Help Rename It?
• Eugene Volokh (UCLA), "FIRE to NYU: Uphold Your Free Speech Promises and Stop Investigating Anti-Zionist Statement"