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It’s no secret that law school can be a stressful environment. Between the competition among your peers, the pressure to get good grades and the sheer volume of work, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.

St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, is renaming its law school the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, becoming the country's first law school named after a working Black attorney.

In a surprise move, the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates rejected a proposed accreditation change on Feb. 6 to no longer require an entrance exam requirement.

Law is the most stressful occupation, according to a recent analysis made by the Washington Post, which used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Let's say that you are pretty sure that you want to be a lawyer—but not one hundred percent sure. Or that your LSAT score is ok but ideally you would like a lot more time to try to improve it. Or that you didn’t really have the time to do a legal internship during college. Should you still go straight to law school after college? Or take some time off?

The University of Maine School of Law opened its new campus to students in downtown Portland on Jan. 17, a move that ended its residence in one of what was described as America’s ugliest university buildings, and marked a move into the heart of downtown Portland.

ChatGPT, which was unveiled in November as the latest creation by OpenAI, is taking the world by storm — legal education included.

The incoming class of 2022 is the most diverse entering class in law school history, according to data from the American Bar Association, and as reported by the Law School Admission Council, also known as LSAC.

AccessLex Institute has partnered with 30 law schools to enter students from underrepresented backgrounds into its LexScholars Post-Baccalaureate Program, an online law school prep program.

Emory University School of Law has a newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program with goals to grow diversity in the practice of environmental law.