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The 2030 Law School Collapse Has Already Begun
Why the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's $50,000-a-year, $200,000-lifetime Grad PLUS cap opens a $70,000 funding gap at private law schools cost
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How to Destroy LSAT Reading Comprehension (Even If You Zone Out While Reading)
Why reading comp is the LSAT's real silent killer, and why doing 50 more practice passages won't fix it
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Too Old for Law School at 40+? Here's the Brutal Truth
Why non-traditional students have some of the highest success rates in law school and in their legal careers
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How to Ace the NEW LSAT Argumentative Writing Sample in 2025
LSAC's 2024 overhaul renamed it the argumentative writing sample, so older prep materials are outdated and no longer reflect the format.
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How to Destroy LSAT Logical Reasoning (Even If You Blank Out on Every Argument)
Why blanking out on logical reasoning is normal, and the one shift that fixes it: hunting for the core point instead of trying to understand
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Crush the LSAT in 30 Days: The Exact Plan I Wish I Had
Use the LASER framework (learning, accuracy, sections, exams, review) to structure a focused 30-day LSAT plan instead of the '6 months to ma
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LSAT Strategy
How to study, section methods, timing, mindset, and the writing sample. 37 episodes.
How to Destroy LSAT Reading Comprehension (Even If You Zone Out While Reading)
Why reading comp is the LSAT's real silent killer, and why doing 50 more practice passages won't fix it
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How to Ace the NEW LSAT Argumentative Writing Sample in 2025
LSAC's 2024 overhaul renamed it the argumentative writing sample, so older prep materials are outdated and no longer reflect the format.
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How to Destroy LSAT Logical Reasoning (Even If You Blank Out on Every Argument)
Why blanking out on logical reasoning is normal, and the one shift that fixes it: hunting for the core point instead of trying to understand
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Crush the LSAT in 30 Days: The Exact Plan I Wish I Had
Use the LASER framework (learning, accuracy, sections, exams, review) to structure a focused 30-day LSAT plan instead of the '6 months to ma
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10 Little-Known Ways to Increase Your LSAT Score
Find out why redoing an old practice test can still teach you something, even if you have already seen every question on it.
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How Top LSAT Scorers Outsmart Logical Reasoning Every Time (Steal Their Method)
Spot the LSAT's "weird situation" trap by asking 3 questions: could something else explain this, could cause and effect be reversed, and cou
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The Outrageously EASY Way to Ace LSAT Reading Comp
Reading comp is a trainable skill, not a fixed trait: one student jumped from a 157 to a 171 after a week of targeted paragraph-purpose dril
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I Was Wrong About Law School
Why the best legal job market in recorded history (93.4% employment, $225,000 starting pay, $158 billion in AM Law 100 revenue) is true and
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The Outrageously EASY Way to Ace LSAT Logical Reasoning
Why the method of reasoning behind an argument matters more than the question type label, the insight behind going from a 152 to a 175
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Why You Keep Missing LSAT Necessary Assumption Questions (And How to Fix It)
Why necessary assumption questions aren't testing what would strengthen an argument, they're testing what must be true or the argument colla
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How to Dominate Flaws | LSAT Logical Reasoning Questions
Flaw question stems give away the question type with phrases like "describes a flaw in the reasoning," "most vulnerable to criticism," or "a...
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Last-Minute LSAT Test Day Advice
Know exactly what's allowed in your testing environment, from 6 sheets of scratch paper to a clear, unlabeled water bottle, so a proctor nev
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Necessary vs Sufficient Assumption | LSAT Logical Reasoning
Necessary assumption questions are a specific type of must be true question: they ask what the argument is logically committed to, even when it's...
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These Law Schools May Not Exist in 5 Years
Learn the 6-factor framework (freestanding status, tuition over $50,000, bar passage under 70%, employment under 65%, falling LSAT/GPA media
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If I Wanted A 175+ LSAT Score in 2025, This is What I'd Do [FULL BLUEPRINT]
The single biggest mistake Steve Schwartz made during his own climb from a 152 to a 175: taking practice test after practice test without...
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Do NOT Go To These 4 Law Schools
Learn to read a law school's 509 disclosure report in under 10 minutes and catch the same red flags Steve found at 4 real schools.
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175+ LSAT Logical Reasoning Strategy
Steve raised his own LSAT score from a 152 to a 175 by dropping memorized question-type categories and focusing on the method of reasoning in the...
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The Worst Law School Admission Cycle Ever
See the two numbers Steve says prove this is the hardest law school admissions cycle ever: a 37% jump in applications and a 1.79-point jump
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HOW TO STUDY (Effectively) FOR THE LSAT | How I Scored a 175
The LASER approach, Learning, Accuracy, Sections, Exams and endurance, and Review, builds your foundation before you burn through practice tests...
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How to Master Necessary Assumptions Once and For All | LSAT Logical Reasoning Questions
Necessary assumption question stems use specific keywords, like depends upon, requires, assumes, and relies, that signal exactly which question...
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What I'd Do to Score 175 on the LSAT (Step-by-Step)
The LASER approach breaks LSAT prep into 5 phases (Learning, Accuracy, Sections, Exams and Endurance, Review), the same system used to go fr
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175+ LSAT Reading Comprehension Strategies
Why outside publications like The Economist won't prep you for RC, and why the roughly 400 real official LSAT passages are all you need.
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Why You're Still Slow on the LSAT (and How to Fix It Fast)
Why speed isn't a skill you build directly on the LSAT, it's a side effect of clear, structured thinking, and why rushing just gets you more...
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How I'd Study for the LSAT in 2025 (Lessons from a 175+ Scorer)
Why studying harder is not the same as studying smarter, and how targeted drills on your weakest question types beat grinding out 5 practice tests...
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LSAT Prep in 2024 | What NOT to Study
Why logic games is gone for good after the June 2024 LSAT, and why every extra study hour should go to logical reasoning instead, now two-thirds...
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How to Build a 175+ LSAT Mindset
Why more studying can actually make your LSAT score worse, by reinforcing bad habits and training your brain to guess and rush faster
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Why Most People BOMB LSAT Reading Comp (And How to Fix It)
Learn why Reading Comp is the LSAT's real silent killer, and why reading a passage the way you did in school actively works against you.
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How to Ace the NEW LSAT Argumentative Writing Sample in 2026
Why the LSAT writing sample shifted from descriptive and reflective to argumentative and evidence-based, which makes older prep books and 2017-era...
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The Outrageously EASY Way to Ace the LSAT
With logic games removed, there's less material to study, so LSAT prep can focus almost entirely on logical reasoning and reading comprehension.
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The Only LSAT Logical Reasoning Strategy You Need for Test Day
Get Steve's 3-bucket framework for every Logical Reasoning question, argument analysis, assumptions, and inference and evaluation, so you always...
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The LSAT Was Hard Until I Understood THIS
Steve raised his LSAT score by over 20 points, from a 152 to a 175, by dropping the 15 LR question stem subtypes and overcomplicated reading comp...
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How to Get a 170+ on the LSAT Using LawHub Advantage
LawHub Advantage has 58 full-length official LSAT practice exams in the no-logic-games format, plus thousands of additional questions to drill by...
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Stop Missing LSAT Flaw Questions: Free Class
Comparison flaws ignore relevant factors: an argument like "avoid fast food because it costs more than cooking at home" assumes cost is the only...
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The 5-Step Blueprint to Crush LSAT Strengthen Questions
How to spot a strengthen question from its stem: look for strengthen, support, justify, strongest, and the word most
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Why LSAT Sufficient Assumption Questions Feel Impossible: Until You Use This Strategy
The one-sentence definition that separates sufficient assumption from every other assumption-family question: the right answer must guarantee the...
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30 Days to Mastery | The Ultimate LSAT Study Plan for a 170+ Score
The LASER framework (Learning, Accuracy, Sections, Exams, Review) that structures a 30-day study plan for a 170 plus LSAT score
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How to Get Started With LSAT Prep (The Brutal Truth About LSAT Study Plans)
Why most students waste months on LSAT prep by trying to study everything instead of the 20% of concepts that drive 80% of score gains
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Law School Admissions
Getting in: T14 blueprints, GPA math, personal statements, and who actually gets picked. 15 episodes.
Too Old for Law School at 40+? Here's the Brutal Truth
Why non-traditional students have some of the highest success rates in law school and in their legal careers
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If I Had a 2.5 GPA, This Is How I Would Get Into a T14 Law School
Why maxing out your LSAT score, not fixing your GPA, is the fastest way to offset a low GPA when T14 medians sit at 3.8 to 3.9
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Why Law School Admissions Just Got Way Easier (And How to Use It)
See exactly how the 1983 U.S. News ranking formula (30% LSAT score, 10% GPA, 20% employment outcomes) forced every law school into a scholar
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If I Wanted To Get Into Every T14 Law School In 2024, This is What I'd Do [FULL BLUEPRINT]
Why LSAT score inflation is real: a 173 used to put you in the 99th percentile, now it takes a 175
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Shocking New Reports: How to Get Into Law School With a Low GPA in 2025
The new ABA 509 reports show that 122 law schools, over 60% of all law schools, raised their GPA medians this cycle, some dramatically.
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If I Wanted to Get Into Harvard Law in 2025, Here's Exactly What I'd Do
See Harvard Law's actual median numbers, a 174 LSAT and a 3.95 GPA, and what falling below them really means for your file.
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Law School Is About to Get Easier to Get Into (Here's Why)
Birth rates dropped starting around 2008 and never bounced back, a 20% decline in a shorter window, which means fewer 17-year-olds finishing high...
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Why Law School Admissions Is Getting Easier (And How to Take Advantage)
Why the US birth rate drop of nearly 20% since 2008 is about to shrink the law school applicant pool, and the timeline: 2026 for colleges, 2030...
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Why Law School Admissions Is About to Get Way Easier (and No One's Talking About It)
Why a roughly 20 percent drop in births since 2008 is about to shrink college and law school applicant pools for years, according to Higher...
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Law School Admission in 2025 | How Trump's Win Changes Everything
See exactly how much law school applications have surged under political turbulence: about 8% after Trump's 2016 win, 13% in 2020, and a reported...
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Low GPA? High LSAT? The No BS Guide to Crushing Law School Admissions
A splitter applicant, someone with an LSAT score significantly above a school's median but a GPA below it, isn't an automatic rejection and can...
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Brutally Honest Advice for Harvard Law School Applicants
Harvard Law's current LSAT median (174) and GPA median (3.93), and why both numbers are likely to climb before the next cycle
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Why Law School Admissions in 2025 Will Be Brutal (And How to Win)
Why more than 60% of law schools (122 total) raised their GPA medians this cycle, and what that does to an applicant sitting at a 3.7
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5 Biggest Law School Personal Statement Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
The five recurring personal statement mistakes an admissions essay reviewer has spotted after reading thousands of applications: cliche topics,...
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Harvard vs DOJ: Why This Changes Your Law School Chances
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's demand for 7 years of university admissions data broken down by race, but only on procedural...
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Money, Loans, and Scholarships
What law school costs, the new loan caps, and how a score turns into tuition money. 4 episodes.
Trump Just Killed The $200K Law School Loan
Why law school tuition was affordable in 1985, about $7,500 a year at private schools, and how a single 1987 magazine ranking eventually broke...
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Is Law School Still Worth It in 2026?
Recent college grads now have a higher unemployment rate than the general population for the first time on record, and AI is absorbing...
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Grad PLUS Is Gone. ABA Is Under Fire. Here's What That Means for Your LSAT Strategy.
Federal Grad PLUS loans disappear for new law school borrowers starting July 1, capping federal loans at roughly $50,000 a year and $200,000 over...
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Trump Just Capped Law School Loans. There's One Loophole Left.
Grad PLUS loans, which let law students borrow unlimited amounts to cover their full cost of attendance, disappear on July 1 under Trump's One Big...
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News and Investigations
LSAC and ABA changes, lawsuits, school closures, and what the filings actually show. 27 episodes.
The 2030 Law School Collapse Has Already Begun
Why the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's $50,000-a-year, $200,000-lifetime Grad PLUS cap opens a $70,000 funding gap at private law schools cost
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The Law School Loan Collapse Starts July 1st
The Grad PLUS federal loan program, which let law students borrow unlimited amounts with no credit or income check, ends for new borrowers o
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The LSAT Has Changed: Here's What You Need to Know (2025)
Every T14 law school now reports a median LSAT of 170 or higher, so last year's target scores are already out of date.
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New 2026 Law School Rankings | Yale Loses #1. Berkeley Out.
Why 92% of a school's US News ranking is directly or indirectly driven by LSAT and GPA, even though the formula lists them at just 9%
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In 2026, Law School Changes Forever: Here's Why
Starting this year, the federal government caps grad school borrowing at $50,000 a year with a $200,000 lifetime limit for professional prog
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Brutally Honest LSAT Prep Advice [LOOPHOLE REVEALED]
Why the top 14 law schools now all have LSAT medians at or above 170, with Yale's median now at 175
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Law School Applicants vs. LSAC: The Lawsuit That Could Reshape the LSAT
See exactly what the federal antitrust lawsuit against LSAC alleges, and why it targets the LSAT, the Credential Assembly Service, and the...
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The 2030 Law School Collapse Will Make Some Students Rich
Walk through a 2030 scenario, built from forces already in motion in 2026, showing how a shrinking applicant pool and new federal loan caps hand...
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Did LSAC Mess Up August LSAT Scores?
Why a 10 to 20 point score drop after a test that felt fine does not necessarily mean LSAC made a scoring error
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LSAC Just Admitted the New LSAT Will Be Worse
Two new exceptions let you test remotely: living more than 180 miles or 3+ hours from a testing center, or having a medical or disability...
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Everything You Need to Know About the NEW LSAT (in 2024)
LSAC made its biggest change to the LSAT in over 30 years by removing the logic games section entirely, following a lawsuit from blind test takers...
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16 Law Schools Shut Down: Could Yours Be Next?
Why students at Golden Gate University School of Law still owed six figures in debt after the school closed and a judge refused to let them keep...
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2025 LSAT Changes | LSAC's Logical Reasoning Loophole
See the unannounced change LSAC made to Logical Reasoning after removing Logic Games in 2024, based on reports from students who tested in August...
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Is the LSAT Dead? The NEW ABA Rule Change Explained
The ABA voted to let law schools apply for a variance allowing them to admit students without the LSAT or any standardized test, for 3 to 5 years...
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Howard Law Just Collapsed | 3 Schools Got Hit. Only 1 Broke.
Howard Law's employment rate dropped nearly 15 points in a year, almost double the 8% national decline in big law firm placements.
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The Worst Law School in America (And 3 More About to Collapse)
The ABA placed Inter American University of Puerto Rico and Cooley Law School on probation, then lifted it within months, but the underlying bar...
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Why the 2025 LSAT Is Different (and What It Means for You)
See why T14 law schools are reporting record high medians, with many inching toward the high 170s at the 75th percentile, and what that means for...
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August LSAT | Did LSAC Change Logical Reasoning?
Why claims that "my section was harder" after an LSAT administration almost never hold up, from someone who has written explanations for 1,000+...
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Why LSAC Is Making LSAT Logical Reasoning Harder
The August LSAT confirmed that LSAC is increasing the share of formal logic questions in logical reasoning: more conditional reasoning and more...
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Conquer the LSAT in 2025 Before the Test Changes Again
Learn why LSAC signaling that the writing sample could soon count toward your score matters, and why law schools are pushing for it now that AI...
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The LSAT Has Changed: Here's What You Need to Know (2026)
See why every T14 law school's LSAT median is now 170 or higher, and the 3 reasons scores keep climbing: heavier prepping, more extra time...
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Will AI Replace Lawyers?
Why "will AI replace lawyers" is the wrong question, and the real dividing line between the lawyers AI can and can't touch
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LSAT Cheating Scandal EXPOSED: Why Law Schools May Stop Trusting Your Score
LSAC is suspending all online LSAT testing in mainland China after the October 2025 LSAT, citing organized cheating by companies and individuals.
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BREAKING: LSAC Removes PrepTests Before August 2024 LSAT
LSAC cut off access to old-format LawHub PrepTests numbered 1 to 94, less than 2 weeks before the August 2024 LSAT.
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Great News For Anyone Taking the August LSAT
LSAC removed the logic games section starting in August 2024 and doubled the logical reasoning section in its place, so there's less material to...
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2024 LSAT Changes | The NEW Logical Reasoning
Why the second scored logical reasoning section, added starting with the August 2024 LSAT, is testing more formal logic and conditional reasoning...
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Half of Cooley Law Grads Just Failed the Bar Exam
Which six law schools just dropped below the ABA's bar passage floor, including Cooley at 51.45% first-time passage, and why they aren't worth...
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