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Think Twice Before Banning Laptops: A Note on Accommodations and Diverse Thinking and Learning
I mentioned in last week’s blog about my inability to remain focused on our law…
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Being Different Doesn’t Mean Being Irrelevant
I have been thinking about the wonderful, varied, and interesting lives our students bring to…
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Some Thoughts on the NYT article “The Lawyer, The Addict”
The New York Times recently published “The Lawyer, The Addict”—a very compelling article about a…
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Difficulty Reading – It May Be a Rare Vision Problem
Louis Sirico has had a recent post on the Legal Skills Prof Blog about a…
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Character and Fitness Questions on Bar Applications
Hat tip to Katherine M. Bender at The Dave Nee Foundation for sending a link…
Mental Health Questions on Bar Applications
The ABA (finally) adopted a resolution that encourages state bar licensing entities to eliminate questions about mental…
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LSAC Settles Dispute over LSAT
This week, the Justice Department filed a landmark consent decree to settle claims that the…
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Lawyers with Mental Health Issues
This will be a short post today; I just want to alert readers to an…
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A new resource: Learning outside the box
Leah Christensen, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has recently published a book entitled, Learning Outside…
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Adapting to new or newly discovered disabilities
Each year I have a few law students who work with me as they adapt to disabilities that…