“If It Ain’t Broke”: Adapting Learning Processes for Neurodivergent Law Students
Starting a new school year, so many students are eager to learn and try everything…
Small Circles
After teaching three hours of orientation classes in the long, hot days of August, one…
Best Practices for Online Bar Exam Administration
Yolonda Sewell, Vice President for Diversity, adds that in addition to the great strides that bar examiners have made in deploying an online exam, we seek to make sure that the online administration does not unfairly disadvantage any bar applicant on the basis of skin tone, race, gender orientation, biophysical conditions, disability, or socio-economic resources. The Best Practices are aimed to level the playing field, both among applicants of varied backgrounds, and between the online and in-person versions of the exam."
Who Am I to Pass the Bar?
Let these words be the fight song for the academic underdog.
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Stigma and Professional Identity
I challenge the status quo about how we frame bar failure as part of professional identity formation. The stigma associated with failure has to be shaken off and be replaced with positive personal development.
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A Federal Court Ruling on Bar Exam Accommodations in New York
With a hat tip to Prof. Chris Lasch... This week, a federal judge issued an…
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Facing the Incoming Class as an ASPer with a Disability
Brad Pitt and I -- we've got something in common. It's not money, or fame,…
Obstacles or Opportunities
In an instant, my end-of-summer plans changed. I was supposed to celebrate the end of…
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Shaking Off Self-Doubt
You may need to mute your inner monologue, if it is filling your mind with self-defeating prophecy.
First Moves
If I recall correctly, the line went something like this: "The world is filled with…