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LSAC is committed to unlocking vital data to provide the entire legal education community the ability to confront challenges in the most effective manner, work toward concrete outcomes, and learn what works and what does not.
Effective September 3, 2024, we are making a few changes to our LSAC Fee Waiver program to increase the effectiveness of our assistance to all fee waiver recipients, and to help them be even more successful in pursuing their goal of legal education.
Although law school graduate employment data is strong now, current law students may face a tougher job market when they graduate.
The team that administers the LSAC PLUS Program at Akron Law reflects on the program’s success and lasting impact.
By Emma K.F. Schulze
By Emma K.F. Schulze
Ebony Freeland Bryant reflects on how the LSAC PLUS Program, which she oversees at Duke Law, has impacted both the students she has worked with and her own life.
By Ebony Freeland Bryant
By Ebony Freeland Bryant
Los Angeles-area native Fabian Guzman speaks frankly on why it’s important for those working in the legal field to look like the people they serve.
Today, December 3, is the United Nations’ International Day of Persons With Disabilities. The U.N. has marked this occasion since 1992, and the goal of the observance is to “promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities.” That goal is at the core of our mission at LSAC, where we’ve worked hard to help people with disabilities enter the legal profession and add their diverse voices to our justice system.
Helping to make justice accessible to all is a mission we share in at LSAC and we do that, in part, by educating and inspiring potential and current law students about the many nontraditional paths to becoming a lawyer and making an impact in the world of law...
The late Janet Reno, who served as attorney general under President Bill Clinton from 1993 through 2001, once remarked that the more research we conduct in the arena of equity, the clearer it becomes that we need to reach further and further back in the pipeline if we are to address barriers where they begin.
The Law School Admission Council recently awarded the top prizes in its annual Diversity Matters Awards to three law schools, two in the Southwest and one on the East Coast, that demonstrated the utmost commitment to increasing diversity in the legal profession...