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The article discusses the issues and opportunities faced by law students when entering law schools. Also cited are the efforts by the American Bar Association (ABA) to provide information supporting law school applicants, and the comment of AccessLex's Center for Legal Education Excellence executive director Aaron Taylor on the developments.

The article informs that the American Bar Association House of Delegates rejected a proposed revision to remove the entrance exam requirement in a law school accreditation standard. It mentions the debate centered around the potential impact on diversity in legal education, with some schools using the GRE while many still rely on the LSAT, and concerns were raised about bias and subjectivity in alternative admissions criteria.

The article offers information on the ABA second annual Profile of the Legal Profession that is several issues faced by attorneys and the legal industry. Topics include examines that attorneys reported carrying a median cumulative student debt stating their debt load is higher than when they graduated from law school; and considered that the U.S. Department of Education data referenced in the Profile of the Legal Profession indicates average cumulative student debt for law school graduates.

The article presents recent equal pay lawsuits by female law professors has shined a light on academic compensation process. Topics include law schools rely on several factors in determining compensation, and law school deans often have significant discretion in deciding what to pay professors; and article suggesting Salaries, raises and appointments should be based on teaching, service and scholarship.

The article discusses the author's claim that various American law schools are poaching high-achieving first-year law students from other institutions as a means of garnering additional revenue, and it mentions how law student Samantha Licata was able to transfer from Brooklyn Law School to the University of Pennsylvania Law School after receiving straight A's in all of her first-year law school courses. Bar examination passage rates and law school tuition costs are assessed.

The article reports on the merger of independent law schools with larger universities. It mentions the question of school expenses vs. tuition, passage rates for bar examinations, and presents the example of a number of schools including the Michigan State University College of Law and John Marshall Law School

Recent law school graduates and attorneys with hiring responsibilities say that there are few tech jobs for new lawyers, largely because the profession isn't ready for this new cadre of tech-savvy grads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language in Resolution 105 called for at least 75 percent of a law school's graduates to pass a bar exam within two years of graduation. Under ABA rules, the House can send a potential revision—in this case for Standard 316—back to the council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar twice for review with or without recommendations, but the council has the final decision on matters related to law school accreditation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While other law schools have experienced significant drops in both class size and median LSAT scores, the University of California at Irvine School of Law has bucked both of those trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses an increase in the number of people who are applying to American law schools as of 2018 in relation to employment data for law school graduates and class size expansions at institutions such as the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. According to the article, law school applications increased by eight percent between 2017 and 2018. America's employment market is examined, along with lawyer-related supply and demand.

The article discusses how various American law schools at institutions such as the University of Arizona are examining how reliable the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) standardized test and Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) are in predicting how applicants will perform in law school. According to the article, Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center plan to accept the GRE scores during the admissions process.