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Instead of focusing on analytic ability, the new test includes questions about how to respond to hypothetical situations. For example, it might describe a company with a policy requiring immediate firing of any employee who lied on an application, then ask what a test taker would do upon discovering that a top-performing employee had omitted something on an application.

THIS is the best example of a rigorous question the promoters of this new test would use compared to the LSAT? What a joke.

And they claim this new "test" correlates well with "success" as a lawyer, but the article omits to describe what it is these Berkeley professors consider to be "success" in a lawyer. Working for the ACLU or ACORN?

I strongly suspect the questions they ask, putting aside the ridiculous example given in the article, have a significant political component, and that more minorities (undoubtedly to these Berkely professors meaning blacks and hispanics, but specifically NOT asians) give doctrinaire liberal answers to the political questions than whites and hispanics, pulling their scores up.