See ya, Scantron.
The legal profession is reluctant to change, and prospective law students get up close and personal with this unfortunate fact when they sign up to take the Law School Admission Test. The LSAT has been a pencil-and-paper exam for almost seven decades, despite technology that would computerize the test being available for years. Now that prospective law students are rushing to take the GRE, a computerized exam, instead of the LSAT, the Law School Admission Council seems to have changed its tune.
On May 20, the LSAC will administer its first-ever digital exam, and about 1,000 prospective law students will take the test on tablet computers. According to a report from Law.com, the exam is only a pilot — scores from the exam…