TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Aug 3, 2015

Law students won’t be allowed to receive both pay and academic credit for externships this year following nearly two years of debate, the National Law Journal reports (sub. req.). During the ABA’s annual meeting in Chicago on Friday, the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar declined to eliminate its ban on such arrangements, citing opposition from clinical law professors. The council also voted to revoke a year-old rule allowing law schools to admit up to 10 percent of their first-year classes from applicants who have not taken the LSAT.