In a continued evolution of its testing policy, the Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has granted permission to 32 law schools to use the JD-Next examination in place of the conventional Law School Admission Test (LSAT) or the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) for admission purposes. This decision came in June, just a month after putting a stop to their proposal of making law schools test-optional.
Among the recipients of these variances, the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law stands out as its team has been intricately involved in the development of the JD-Next test for the past five years. Discussing the adoption of JD-Next, David Yellen, dean of the University of Miami School of Law and a tenured professor shared with Law.com that the ABA’s decision to ease its adoption process led universities to quickly adapt to this change, making it a ‘no-brainer’.