AccessLex Spring Sync Workshop

Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is long overdue and is unlikely to happen in the near future. However, there will continue to be meaningful changes to higher education policy through smaller bills, regulations, and executive action. During this session, learn how policy decisions by Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration are impacting students, borrowers, and institutions.

Although the diversity of law students and graduates has gradually increased over the last few decades, access to legal education remains difficult for students from certain racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. And while the Supreme Court’s recent Students for Fair Admissions decision has challenged ongoing efforts to reduce racial disparities in law school admissions, opportunities remain for creating a more equitable environment for J.D. applicants. In this session, we will explore factors that negatively and positively impact applicants’ implementation of an effective application strategy — specifically the ability to submit applications early or on-time — and discuss options for supporting underrepresented students on the path to law school admission.

Join us for a session delving into the federal Gainful Employment and Financial Value Transparency regulations and their impact on law schools. We'll explore the background, key metrics, and reporting and disclosure requirements necessary for compliance.

When it comes to passing the bar, making a potential move, and launching a career, graduating law students have a lot on their plate! Join this session to hear from a panel of law school administrators who have implemented specific programming for their 3Ls to help them prep for this transition.

How is artificial intelligence already impacting the law school admissions process, and what potential changes and challenges are on the horizon? Hear from a panel of current admissions professionals for the answers to these questions and gain insight into approaches being taken to best harness this new technology.

AccessLex Institute’s Bar Skills Modules are designed to introduce law students to the skills tested on the NextGen Bar Exam. Keyed to multiple 1L subjects, these faculty-drafted modules represent easily adoptable formative assessment exercises for law students throughout the three years of law school. Hear from faculty drafters about the potential to leverage these free modules to achieve your formative assessment goals across the curriculum.

Helix Bar Review by AccessLex offers comprehensive bar prep for the Uniform Bar Exam, California Bar Exam, and the Florida Bar Exam (and will soon for the NextGen Bar Exam, too). But, our Helix team also offers customizable in-school programming for the entire law school experience. Join Allie Robbins, Managing Director of Institutional Partnerships, as she shares the Helix approach to student and school support.

You know you can use JDEdge in your orientation programming, but did you know you can incorporate the lessons, videos, and/or activities into various 1L initiatives? Join this session to explore how you can utilize JDEdge to help current students sharpen their skills, too!

We all know and love EDNA and Purrgood, but did you know AccessLex Institute has much more to offer? Dive into some of our powerful platforms and tools, like Analytix, the Legal Education Data Deck, student success lessons, and more in this empowering overview.

Applying to law school is both a science and an art, even more so now after last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision. Join our panel of admissions professionals as they discuss the nuts and bolts of the admissions process including the evolving requirements and the best way to approach personal statements and interviews.

This session will provide an overview of recent AccessLex Institute research on the relationships between preadmission factors, law school academic performance, and first-time bar passage. It will focus on contextualizing the role of LSAT score and final UGPA to serve as helpful predictors of early academic success—but not bar success. This reframing opens the door to consider additional criteria that may not have demonstrated relationships with bar passage but do show potential to predict early performance in law school. This session will conclude by introducing a new index that integrates LSAT score and final UGPA, as well as a new indicator (UGPA growth) into one easy-to-calculate score.

Repayment is back! The new SAVE plan will initiate more features this summer and servicers are shaping up. Hear about these student loan updates and more during this session, led by two former financial aid pros and Accredited Financial Counselors from the AccessLex Center for Education and Financial Capability^®.

Following Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) last year, colleges and universities have had to identify race-neutral approaches to ensure that their entering classes are diverse. Join our panelists for a continued discussion of ways in which law schools and pre-law advisors can help foster the enrollment of law students from underrepresented backgrounds, even when race and ethnicity can no longer be considered.