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Congress Presses Judicial Oversight as ABA Accreditation Faces New Scrutiny

Congress is moving forward with discussion of a judicial-conduct reform bill in the wake of the controversy involving Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, while a U.S. Department of Education advisory committee deadlocked on whether the American Bar Association's law-school accrediting arm should continue to...

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Congress is moving forward with discussion of a judicial-conduct reform bill in the wake of the controversy involving Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, while a U.S.

Department of Education advisory committee deadlocked on whether the American Bar Association's law-school accrediting arm should continue to...

Two separate developments are putting core legal-industry institutions under renewed pressure: Congress is moving forward with discussion of a judicial-conduct reform bill in the wake of the controversy...

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Congress is moving forward with discussion of a judicial-conduct reform bill in the wake of the controversy involving Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, while a U.S. Department of Education advisory committee deadlocked on whether the American Bar Association's law-school accrediting arm should continue to...

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