Posts by David Frakt

I promised to provide a bar passage update when this year’s bar passage reports came out, and they are available.  You can access the individual school reports here. You can access ...

As we reflect on the important milestone of the impending confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first female Black Supreme Court Justice, it is worth noting the great strides…

In the wake of the recent announcements of the opening of two new law schools, one at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL and at one at High Point University, in ...

In light of dramatic improvements in admissions standards at formerly exploitative schools, combined with several of the worst offenders going out of business, last year I abandoned my perennial bottom 10…

I was recently asked to be interviewed by Fox News for a piece they were planning on running about the 9/11 military commission trial at Guantanamo. (I am a former…

This fall, for the first time in 25 years, Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, FL will not enroll any new students.  The small crop of continuing second and…

CORRECTED:  As has been widely reported, Florida Coastal School of Law has lost their access to federal student loans.  Because operating without access to federal student loan funds is not…

Law School admissions practices have improved so much over the last couple of years that this year, I discontinued the Bottom Ten List, my annual list of America's least selective…

For the past few years, I have written a post listing the bottom 10 least selective ABA-accredited law schools.   (See, 2017 , 2018 , 2019  columns)  The point of these columns was to try to ...

I wanted to reemphasize a point I made last year about the California bar exam.  The high cut score on the California bar exam doesn’t really prevent law school graduates ...