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You may experience mixed emotions as you wrap up your final semester in law school – overwhelmed by your bar exam-related to-do list, excited to finish law school, nervous about your last round of finals, and filled with a sense of accomplishment as you near graduation. 

Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law dean Jenny Martinez issued an apology to Judge Kyle Duncan, after students walked out and protested during his visit on March 9.

As a law student, you have a big challenge ahead of you when it comes to writing. You need to learn how to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively if you want to be successful in your legal career. Although it might seem like ChatGPT (or other chatbots) can do the work for you, this is often not true

Four law schools that missed the mark last year on standards set by the American Bar Association are now back in compliance with those standards, according to public notices posted on March 3.

Brad Toben, the current longest-serving law school dean, will step down in July and return to the Baylor University School of Law faculty. This change was announced just a month before the American Bar Association posted a public notice of noncompliance for the lack of faculty diversity at the school.

In 2018, Epperson shared that during her first year of law school, she lost one of her biggest supporters. Her longtime boyfriend took his life. He suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after playing high school football. But this traumatic experience didn’t derail Epperson. Instead, she used it as motivation to excel both in and out of law school.

The majority of law students are facing mental health challenges, according to a recent survey by Bloomberg Law.

The LSAT still could be made optional for law schools. The council of the American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted to resubmit a proposal to eliminate the test requirement for accredited law schools.

Jordan Marshall Taylor, a student at the City University of New York School of Law has been missing since early January.

Naod Nega, a student at Harvard Law School, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a fellow HLS student in a homophobic attack on Jan. 23.