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Mar 05, 2018
Feb 2018 Test Takers: Your Score’s Coming Wednesday

Well, it’s official: the score release date for the February 2018 LSAT will be Wednesday, March 7. So this Wednesday, one day earlier than the scheduled release date of Thursday, March 8. In a kindly worded and #motivational note posted on LSAC students’ accounts, LSAC CEO Kellye Testy announced the score release date. Really, she

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Feb 27, 2018
Studies say drinking will help you live into your 90s? Not so fast …

You may have heard: moderate drinking helps you live a long time! It’s all over the Internet. It’s a real study, from UC Irvine, so it must be true! Time for me to crack open a breakfast beer. But wait — are we so sure? When you’re deep into the LSAT, you notice that people

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Jan 26, 2018
LSAC just announced there will be an LSAT in July 2018!

Hot off the digital presses, the Law School Admissions Council just announced that there’s a new LSAT in town. For the first time ever, there will be an official LSAT given in July. Monday, July 23rd, 2018, specifically. Cue the 1980s Stevie Wonder, because the only thing that’s hotter than July is this news. This

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Jan 11, 2018
There May Be Big Changes to Law School Financing Ahead

Republicans in Congress are proposing big changes to grad school student loans. If you’re applying to law school, keep an eye on this. It might affect your law school choices. There are two major parts to the proposed bill. The first caps the amount of government student loans for grad school. Some claim that this

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Jan 08, 2018
Weed Law: Is Sessions harshing states’ buzz or is he full of smoke?

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the so-called Cole memo, which discouraged federal prosecutors from bringing charges against marijuana growers and sellers who complied with state laws. This post is going to explore the contours of weed law in a newly divided federal and state system. Now, there are a lot of policy aspects

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Dec 20, 2017
Did this judicial nominee flunk his confirmation hearing?

In case you missed it, the video of judicial nominee Matthew Peterson getting roasted during the Senate confirmation hearing — for not trying any court cases to a verdict, not knowing what a motion in limine is, not knowing what the Daubert standard is — went semi-“viral” over the last few days. The nominee at

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Oct 18, 2017
Colin Kaepernick’s Case Against the NFL

I’m a big San Francisco 49ers fan. I suffered through the 2000s, enjoyed three years of playoff football, and watched as the team crashed harder than any other franchise in recent history. Paralleling that crash was Colin Kaepernick’s career trajectory. Kaepernick went from starting in a Super Bowl to out of a job within a

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Oct 05, 2017
There Were A LOT of Horror Stories from the September 2017 LSAT

Imagine this: You, a proud Idahoan, have spent months preparing for the LSAT, which the Law School Admission Council said would be held on Saturday, September 16, the year of our Lord Kellye Testy two thousand and seventeen, and would begin promptly at 8:30 am, Mountain Daylight Time. You purchased a not-inexpensive admission ticket, which

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