Posts by David Frakt

There is a new documentary just out about law schools by the documentary film makers T and B Owen.  The video is available on Amazon Prime Video here for $2.99 HD…

Last week the California State bar released some more detailed information about the July 2017 bar exam. We already knew that Thomas Jefferson had the lowest first-time pass rate of…

As I have noted in a recent column, 10 schools have been found out of compliance with ABA Standard 501 on Admissions,  which requires that school admit only students who…

For those of you who are still questioning the correlation between LSAT Scores and Bar Passage Rate, I recently compiled some statistics on the three InfiLaw schools which are extremely…

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a front-page article about the rise and fall of InfiLaw.  The article mentioned that when I was a candidate to be the Dean at…

Of the 201 American law schools that filed ABA Standard 509 reports last year (I did not consider the three Puerto Rican ABA law schools), 82 reported matriculating 10 or ...

  The New York Bar Examiners released the results of the July 2017 bar results by law school earlier this week.  Overall the first-time bar pass rate for ABA schools was ...

UPDATED November 18, 2017 Although the ABA has been careful not to direct a minimum cutoff LSAT score for law schools to admit individual applicants, if one looks at the…

It has been obvious for some time that Western Michigan University’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School has been grossly violating ABA Standards.  I have previously noted this and urged the…

The University of North Texas opened in the fall of 2014, enrolling 153 students.   In the fall of 2015, in their second year of operation, the school applied for provisional…