The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Award winners from the recent Hackcess to Justice legal hackathon are working hard to fulfill the main goal of the event: Improving access for all Americans to effective legal assistance.
via ‘Hackcess to Justice’ winners look to increase the reach of their apps.
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202534457162
The American Bar Association is changing the way it collects graduate employment information from law schools.
The council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on Dec. 3 approved a new annual questionnaire intended to gather more detailed information about where recent law grads find work. The change came as law students, graduates and three U.S. senators heaped criticism on the ABA and law schools for not providing prospective law students with an accurate picture of graduate employment and salary levels.
[T]he ABA Standards Review Committee (SRC), the body that proposes changes to the law school accreditation standards for action by the ABA Council on Legal Education, is holding its next public forum in Chicago during the morning of Saturday, April 2, 2011. The SRC is actively considering issues concerning legal education broadly, student learning outcomes, faculty status, governance and security of position.
Be sure to visit the ABA SRC website for the latest drafts of the proposed changes to the accreditation standards. Look for the “Meeting Date: April 2-3, 2011” heading about half way down the page for the drafts as PDFs.