Hello and welcome to episode 114 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast in Los Angeles I'm Nathan Fox with me in DC is been on I want to talk about this ABA Council's move to Nix the tests altogether.

Yeah, what do you think about that?

Well, I think it's interesting that this is the email exchange that we are having, that some people

resist this because they think it would not help with diversity, but stepping back,

what's the context here? The ABA had a meeting, right, and someone proposed the option of getting rid of the rule that

would require law schools to use a test to assess those who are applying to law school.

So that would include the L-SAT, the GRE, everything could just go out the window. Now the vote, what didn't, I can't remember now, it didn't pass, right?

Yeah, it's, I guess it was a proposal that didn't make it.

Yeah.

Well, anyways, I thought the fact that they were talking about it, right?

It's always been a requirement of a a accreditation that a law school use some admission test.

Yep.

Which has always defaulted to the L-SAT.

Yes.

Except for now, law schools are starting to accept also the GRE.

And then yeah, now the ABA is talking about just getting rid of that requirement.

That's not to say schools can't use an admission test.

Oh, certainly, yeah.

I think this is actually something that's interesting.

I think that people should be aware of and maybe get used to

since this is the whole legal world that they're jumping into. The rule actually

says that schools have to use a quote valid and reliable test.

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