Posts by David Frakt

As I wrote in a recent column about America's least selective law schools, the days of widespread predatory admissions practices by ABA-accredited law schools seems to have come largely to a ...

Faithful readers of TFL will recall that I have been critical of California's high cut score on the bar exam, which results in unfairly denying or delaying admission to the ...

I am pleased to report that the exploitation of unqualified students by law schools is no longer the widespread practice that I have been bemoaning since 2014.  Is the era ...

If you are interested in a great opportunity to serve by helping to make legal education more transparent, affordable and fair, then please consider joining the Board of Law School…

The ABA recently notified Florida Coastal School of Law (the last surviving InfiLaw school) that it was rejecting FCSL's application for a major change to convert to non-profit status.  This…

Dear Readers,   I wanted to share this interesting perspective from Mitchel Winick.        California Supreme Court Fails Bar Examinees   It is July, and that means another…

This is the second part of my series discussing the 2019 ABA Bar Data Consumer Info Spreadsheet (the “Spreadsheet”).  My first article looked at the 2018 first-time bar passage data. ...

There have been several articles published recently regarding the 2019 ABA Bar Data Consumer Info Spreadsheet (the “Spreadsheet”), including one here on The Faculty Lounge by the estimable Gary Rosin.  ...

The ABA House of Delegates resoundingly defeated Resolution 105, the proposed revision to Standard 316, which would require all law schools to achieve a 75% bar pass rate for all ...

The California State Bar just released a report in which the authors attempted to explain the decline in bar exam performance in recent years, focusing on results from 2013, which ...