Suffolk Law Dean Discusses GRE and the New Legal Realities

In many ways, Suffolk University Law School is emblematic of recent changes in the legal profession. Like most other law schools, it saw a steep decline in applications after the Great Recession burst the Big Law, billable hour bubble. And its employment outcomes reflect the difficulties students have faced finding a footing on the traditional associate-partner track career path.

But Suffolk is also embracing — and making — change, including in the way law schools determine who should get the chance to become a lawyer in the first place.

The school recently began to study whether GRE scores accurately predict law ...