(Subscription required) More than half of the pre-law students surveyed this February said the current political climate impacted their decision to apply to law school.

(Subscription required) Judicial selection is the process by which judges are chosen to serve on courts of record. As many observers of the American judicial system note, this process varies significantly by state and even within different court levels within a state--trial courts versus appellate courts, for example.

Two judges of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday repudiated their recent concurrence in the view that the judicially crafted rule that administrative law judges hearing appeals from rulings of the commissioner of social security must set forth a “germane reason” for rejecting the views of lay witnesses.

(Subscription required) In an email to applicants, the state bar said at least four people who were told they failed the February exam actually passed.