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A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Current and recently proposed American Bar Association (ABA) standards regarding students’ bar passage rates have a significant disparate impact on states that have adopted difficult bar examination passage standards (the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE cut scores). Many scholars have demonstrated that the ABA bar passage standards have a negative impact on diversity in the bar by discouraging law schools from enrolling large numbers of minority students, who have, traditionally, performed below state mean in passage rates on the exam. This study presents a new and supplemental standard for the ABA to use in monitoring student outcome measures and law schools’ …
Ethics 20/20 Successfully Achieved Its Mission: It "Protected, Preserved, And Maintained", James E. Moliterno
Ethics 20/20 Successfully Achieved Its Mission: It "Protected, Preserved, And Maintained", James E. Moliterno
Scholarly Articles
The legal profession tends to look inward and backward when faced with crisis and uncertainty. The legal profession could make greater advances by looking outward and forward to find in society and culture the causes of and connections with the legal profession’s crises. Doing so would allow the profession to grow with society, solve problems with rather than against the flow of society, and be more attuned to the society the profession claims to serve.
Should Oral Argument On Appeal Be Abolished Unless Requested By The Court?, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Should Oral Argument On Appeal Be Abolished Unless Requested By The Court?, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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American Bar Association Meeting Prayer Breakfast, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
American Bar Association Meeting Prayer Breakfast, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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Legal Services Revisted, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Seminar On The Need For Education About Communism, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Seminar On The Need For Education About Communism, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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"Notes for use in introductory remarks prior to presentation of seminar speakers." Atlanta Regional ABA Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Ethical Standards Of The Bar, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Ethical Standards Of The Bar, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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Areas Of Emphasis For (Aba) 1964/65, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Areas Of Emphasis For (Aba) 1964/65, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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Remarks On Accepting Presidency (Of Aba), Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Remarks On Accepting Presidency (Of Aba), Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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