TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Feb 23, 2024

The American Bar Association yesterday declined to grant full approval to JD-Next, rejecting a proposal to put the alternative law school admissions program on par with the LSAT and the GRE, reports Reuters. The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar instead approved a recommendation from its standards committee that the program should not yet be deemed a "valid and reliable" predictor of an applicant's law school grades. Daniel Thies, chair of the standards committee, noted that "more data and more study be gathered" before deciding whether the JD-Next program meets the standard. An ABA-commissioned report found the exam "cannot be evaluated with the present data."