The existing bar exam does little to ensure that new lawyers understand New York law, a task force assembled by the New York State Bar Association concluded.
Students taking a simulated multi-state bar examination in 2014 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. New York should ditch the Uniform Bar Exam and develop its own attorney licensing test, with an emphasis on state law.
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In keeping the case in court, the Second Department resolved an issue of first impression on the scope of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.
The plaintiffs, relatives of people who donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School Anatomical Gift Program, claimed the university was liable for the mishandling and did not act in good faith.
"Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day," U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said.
Five Palestinian Americans claim Columbia ignored anti-Palestinian harassment and investigated protected advocacy under its antisemitism measures, raising questions about how higher education handles competing bias complaints.
Columbia Law Dean Daniel Abebe told students that they need to learn how to engage with AI in ways that advance educational purpose while also teaching how to think critically including developing "technological fluency."
