Non-Sequiturs: 04.02.08
*Covington & Burling’s Lanny Breuer gets profiled for being the “go-to guy” for Sandy Berger, Roger Clemens, and Charles Prince (not to be confused with Prince Charles). [The Washingtonian]
*If you were disappointed by your law school’s ranking this year in U.S. News and World Report, perhaps you’d prefer a 14-year-long historical perspective. [TaxProf Blog]
*Huh? Yesterday was April Fools’ Day? Okay, yes, Fantasy Baseball post was a joke (more details at the ABA Journal), but sadly our Blackberry post was not. [ABA Journal]
*As we had hoped, cross dressing bankruptcy judge Robert Somma is rethinking his decision to resign. [The Boston Globe]
*The Broward County courts sound like they are ready to host a reality TV show: pot-smoking, insensitivity on the bench, slurs about sexual orientation… Now for some musical chairs. [Daily Business Review]
*DOJ is investigating whether sexual orientation played a part in attorney firings. “To some people, that’s even worse than being a Democrat.” [TPMMuckraker]
*When deciding which law job to take, you may want to factor in the number of opposite sex singles living in the cities you’re considering. [Jezebel]
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Why do law school deans spazz out about rankings?
Because law students spazz out about rankings:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9928574869
Yeah right, moron. Law school deans spazz out about rankings because donors spazz out about rankings. Law deans couldn't care less about their students except to the extent that the graduating classes have enough high powered jobs to fund the law school 3 decades from now.
First evidence that Kash isn't Lat:
No mention of the fact that the idiot responsible for firing the lesbian from the DOJ was Monica Goodling.
Lol at the snippy comment Leiter left at the TaxProf blog.
Leiter needs to chillax.
Pretty sure that was Brian Fellows who left that comment.
Seventh!
Leiter is the definition of ass.
I can't wait to see Lat describe Goodling's actions *here* as "fabulous."
Lat - fix your crappy website!
goodling is awesome
The 14-year historical perspective just underlines the stupiding of the T14 argument. While the numbers do clearly show a gap between Georgetown and UCLA (14 and 15 respectively), there is a similarly obvious difference between Berkeley and Duke (10 and 11 respectively).
Based on the data below, Yale is clearly in a tier of its own (T1) followed by Harvard and Stanford (T3), CCN (T6) and Michigan/Virginia/Penn/Berkeley (T10).
After that, there is a Duke/Northwestern/Cornell (T13) and Georgetown seems to be the clear T14 school. After that, who really cares?
Bottom line, anyone who argues for T14 instead of T10 because schools in the bottom of the T10 and top of T14 change places often but don't drop out of the T14 is crazy. There is a clear T10 and T10 rules! (this, by the way, also shows the absurdity of Northwestern's most recent placement--go back down to the T14 where you clearly belong)
1996-2009 Mean School 2009
1.00 Yale 1
2.36 Harvard 2
2.36 Stanford 2
4.43 Columbia 4
5.00 NYU 5
5.43 Chicago 7
7.57 Michigan 9
8.21 Virginia 9
8.57 Penn 7
8.79 UC-Berkeley 6
10.14 Duke 12
11.64 Northwestern 9
11.79 Cornell 12
13.64 Georgetown 14
16.50 UCLA 16
16.57 Vanderbilt 15
16.86 USC 18
16.93 Texas 16
T14 is appropriate because marks the clear line between respectability and embarrassment.
There's nothing "embarrassing" about going to number 15.
10:21 -- flagrant GULC troll.
Nice newsgathering -- that Washingtonian piece about Breuer is practically a month old.