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As of mid-October, the number of applicants for the Class of 2023 was down 11.7% from the year before. The number of applications had dropped 16.2%, meaning students are applying to fewer schools as well.

Your time is approaching. There will be a day when you hold your right hand up and swear to uphold the laws of your state and country and only then will you understand: three years in law school is an eternity; three years in practice is an instant.

Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law in Malibu, California and Tuskegee University in Alabama recently created a J.D. degree partnership program to allow students to receive two degrees in only six years.

With almost 90% of law schools classified as liberal, some worry that the ideological imbalance could have a negative effect on legal education.

University of Colorado Law School students in the Sustainable Community Development Clinic have played a vital role in helping the residents of a mobile home park in Fort Collins, CO.

Wilmington University School of Law will become the second law school in Delaware.

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The organizations have teamed up to provide financial assistance and resources to Black, African American and Black-Latinx prelaw students in an effort to diversify the legal profession.

Facing the challenge of losing accreditation, the school has taken a bold step. It has drastically reduced this year’s entering class and is giving full-tuition scholarships to all full-time students.

The University of Connecticut School of Law has partnered with Disability Rights Connecticut to provide legal advocacy for people with disabilities through a clinic.