Legal Education Roundup (Aug 12, 2016)

Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.

• "Canary in the Coal Mine," Inside Higher Ed

• "Here's How Law School Grads Would Fix Law School," Fortune

• "Banking on a $180,000 Entry Salary? Check This Out," Bloomberg Law

• "Law Grad Salary Distribution By State," TaxProf Blog

• "NALP's Salary Curve Disaggregated," NALP Bulletin

• "Davis Polk Senior Counsel Named New Dean at Touro," New York Law Journal

• "Federal panel 'sent a signal' to ABA about law school loans and accreditation enforcement," ABA Journal

• "The 24 best schools for securing federal clerkships," Business Insider

• "Student-Loan Defaulters in a Standoff With Federal Government," The Wall Street Journal

• "Why Now for Another Supreme Court Clinic?," Supreme Court Brief

• "Diversity, Consumer Groups at Odds over Tougher Bar-Pass Rule Proposed for Law Schools," Law.com

• "Former Law Department Interns to Clerk at SCOTUS," Law.com

• "Staking Out Sides on Student Debt Discharge," Inside Higher Ed

• "Five Takeaways for Managing Student Debt," Law.com

• "The Empire Strikes Back, Part II: LSAC Stops Certifying Matriculant Admissions Data In Response To Law School Use Of GRE," TaxProf Blog

• "LSAT Group Pushes Back Against GRE in Law School Admissions," Law.com

• "Law School Council May Stop Certifying Admissions Data," Inside Higher Ed

• "Raising The Stakes In The Fight Over The LSAT," Above the Law

• "Houston College of Law Fires Back in Trademark Fight Over Name," Law.com

• "Massachusetts Joins the Uniform Bar Exam Crowd," Law.com

• "'Character' Is Essential for New Attorneys, Legal Skills Not So Much, Survey Finds," Law.com

• "What skills do new lawyers need now — and what can wait? Database lets you search for answers," ABA Journal

• "Why In-House Lawyers Are In-Demand Law Professors," Law.com

• "But What About Lawyers? A Q&A With Richard Susskind on AI in Law," Legaltech News

• "Access Group Releases Loan Calculator for Law School," Insider Higher Ed

• "Law Students Help Transgender Clients With Name Changes," The National Law Journal