News release: “New American Bar President Hilarie Bass will focus on redesigning legal education as one of her key priorities, and has created a commission of top legal educators and innovators to provide forward-thinking recommendations. The 10-member Commission on the Future of Legal Education will explore several of the most critical issues in legal education, such as falling bar passage rates, a challenging employment environment for new lawyers and sliding LSAT scores for prospective law students. The commission will seek the perspectives of various constituencies, including judges, deans, professors and practitioners…”