preLaw News

Some programs offer you the study skills or advice you need to be successful in your first year while others provide training experiences with legal professionals. Lucky for you, there are several programs you can do this summer to help prepare for law school.

Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa has partnered with Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to launch a 3+3 J.D. degree partnership program that will allow students to receive two degrees in only six years.

This month, the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar's Council decided to back down from plans to move forward this August with the proposal to eliminate the Law School Admission Test requirement, after getting letters with concerns from multiple law school deans.

Bobby Wood, a University of Mississippi School of Law alumnus contributed $60,000 to the fund he established in 2016, the Bobby Wood Clinical Programs Student Award Fund.

Andrea Marcano, a 3L student at Suffolk University Law School, made school history by becoming one of the first legal advocates in the country to assist Venezuelan refugees flown to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

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The American Bar Association released employment data for the graduating law class of 2022, showing positive growth for the second year in a row, but at a slower rate than the previous year.

Online education is gaining acceptance and becoming more popular than ever. But is it for you?

You know that you want to go to law school. You even have some ideas of what type of law you might like to practice. But how do you find out what areas will be in demand when you graduate?