Professional Diversity: President Barack Obama has made history when it comes to bringing racial and gender diversity to the federal bench, but a senator and liberal interest groups want him to nominate fewer corporate lawyers from large, well-known firms, The National Law Journal reports.
Bar Raising?: The panel overhauling the American Bar Association’s law school accreditation standards is near a decision about whether to tighten the rules governing rates of bar-examination passage by graduates, The National Law Journal reports.
