Posts by David Frakt

The 2016 ABA 509 reports are out and there are some interesting things to report: Let's Start with the "Hall of Shame" headed up, not surprisingly, by InfiLaw's three law schools:  ...

The July 2016 California Bar Examination results by law school were recently released. See the story here  and more granular data here.  The overall performance of the the 21 (!) ...

Above the Law recently reported on a bizarre 9-page letter written by Florida Coastal Law School Dean Scott DeVito. The letter reports on the school’s poor bar pass rate on ...

In my last post, I talked about how Barry and St. Thomas Law Schools “bombed” the Florida Bar in 2016.  But in a sense, their graduates didn’t bomb the test ...

Back in April 2014, when I gave my infamous Dean candidate presentation to Florida Coastal School of Law, (see also here) I predicted that the class that had just been ...

Loyal readers of this website will recall my debate in late 2014/early 2015, with Charlotte Law’s Dean Jay Conison, about Charlotte’s/InfiLaw’s admission policies.   (For a refresher, see here and here.)  ...

In March, the ABA Section of Legal Education's Council approved for notice and comment revisions to the ABA Standards 316 and 501 related to stricter bar passage rate requirements, admissions ...

Back in January, I wrote a post which was critical of the feeble attempts by the Chair (Justice Rebecca Berch) and Managing Director (Barry Currier) of the ABA Council of…

For some time now, I have been warning of the catastrophic consequences of admitting students with very poor LSAT scores and correspondingly low grades because such students are at very ...

Standard 501 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools 2015-2016 states that “a school shall not admit an applicant who does not appear capable of ...