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Electronic Services to Law Schools

In September 2009, several enhancements to ACES 2 were made to make it easier to review applicant files, assign or reassign files to reviewers, and track the progress of files throughout the review process, all online. These changes made it possible for even more schools to opt for paperless admission file processing. In 2010, ACES 2 was rolled out for Canadian, Australian, and Puerto Rican schools. The ACES 2 team enhanced support for various Internet browsers used by member law schools, including updating Internet Explorer (IE); the team began working on Firefox enhancements as well. LSAC worked with an external firm to perform extensive browser-compatibility testing, and, in all, more than 800 compatibility tests for 70 different ACES 2 features were completed. Between August and October in 2010, LSAC helped member schools upgrade ACES 2 from IE6 to IE8, and began evaluating IE9. Work continued on browser support through 2011. The second Electronic Services Conference (ESCon) was held in the spring of 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. About 450 people attended, representing 165 member schools. Sixty-five percent of the attendees were admission professionals and 35 percent were information-technology professionals.

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