UTB IN THE NEWS

How the Character and Fitness Process Keeps the Legal Profession Wealthy and White

By Tolu Lawal / Erin K. Lichtenstein
August 20, 2025

Balls and Strikes

The character and fitness evaluation to practice law is discriminatory, advocates say

By Jasmine Garsd
June 2, 2023

NPR: All Things Considered

Courts reform controversial bar exam question

By Jacob Kaye
March 22, 2023

Queens Daily Eagle

Kathy Hochul Pushes New York’s Highest Court to the Right

By Daniel Nichanian
December 22, 2022

Bolts Magazine

New York Is Pushed to Stop Asking Aspiring Lawyers About Long-Ago Crimes

By Troy Closson
September 6, 2022

The New York Times

CUNY Law nixes criminal history box from app

By Rachel Vick
May 19, 2022

Queens Daily Eagle

Question 26 leaves bar applicants in legal limbo

By Rachel Vick
March 11, 2022

Queens Daily Eagle

State bar calls for change to ‘unlawful’ bar admission question

By Rachel Vick
January 24, 2022

Queens Daily Eagle