The New York Times: They Stand Corrected
We thought something was off about the discussion of the recruiting situation at Yale Law School in last week’s big New York Times article about the tough legal job market.
It turns out we were right. Check out this correction, which appeared in yesterday’s paper:
An article on Wednesday about a cutback in hiring by law firms misstated several firms’ recruitment decisions involving Yale Law School. Two firms — Baker & McKenzie and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy — did not register for the program in 2009; another, White & Case, registered but dropped its registration before scheduling any interviews. None of the firms “canceled interviews in New Haven.”
The errors were brought to the attention of the Times by a YLS spokesperson, who explained that the school was never contacted by the reporter and had no idea as to where he obtained his information.
“No students were ‘stunned’ by the canceling of any interviews,” the spokesperson explained to ATL. “That just simply did not happen.”
Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools [New York Times]
Earlier: All the News That’s Fit to Recycle
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New York Times... More like the New York Slimes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
1 here, I was FIRST...
with a funny joke.
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What about the self-entitlement reeking from the law students? Does any of that need an editorial correction?!
NYTimes - All The News That's Fit To Make Up!
What a joke! I'd love to see an audit of their recent articles about the "healthcare crisis in America."
- Drudge Loyalist
I suppose I should know the answer to this, but is Yale Law School accredited by the American Bar Association and a member in good standing of the Association of American Law Schools?
Guys in my high school used to make up politically motivated, socialist crap and print it as news all the time. It was no big deal.
as fun as it is to make fun of the new york times, fox news.com currently has a story on their front page about a bs story they ran early this week.
4, bored of the schtick now. Please explain your personal hierarchy of desert among the trades and professions. Bonus points: explain why your own pay is just vindication for your toils and abilities rather than an injustice requiring immediate remedial redistribution of your assets.
Those firms rarely land summers from YLS so it makes sense not to recruit there in this economic climate.
So they didn't cancel at the last minute, they decided far in advance not to bother showing up and holding interviews. Gee, thanks for clarifying that and making everyone feel better YLS.
6... It stopped being funny a long time ago. Seriously.
Whoooooooaaaaa. 12 just owned 6. Bammmmm!!!!!!!!!!
I doubt anyone was "stunned," or even noticed. Over the past several years, how many YLS students have actually summered at or taken full time jobs with any of those firms?
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ATL newfags can't triforce
YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS
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Lat
Your little catfight with the NYT is starting to remind me of Elie's little racial tirades. Could you refrain from going off on the ideological benders and stop sucking at life?
The NYTimes reporter probably interviewed Yale students who told him that those firms had cancelled. That seems like a good enough source.
I'm sure there was more to the situation than the Yale spokesperson let on.
Please, do not let law schools start acting like firms. That is, do not let them spin media or hide facts to cover up their failings, whether those failings manifest in layoffs or negative employment upon graduation stats.
It's bad enough that law schools are apparently still happy to allow prospective students to believe that a high salary and a rewarding job are only a JD away.
9, you sound self-entitled. Thanks for trying, though.
YLS is a festering toilet in decline.
6, Yale Law School is not to be confused with Yale University School of Law. The former is an online non-accredited school not eligible for accreditation. The latter is well-respected and accredited. Yale University School of Law has been unsuccessful in causing Yale Law School to cease and desist operations because they let the trademark lapse.
21- what about my J.D. from "Yale LLC" ? Is it prestigious?
9 - "hierarchy of desert"??
Grandiloquent fail!
17,
Lat provides some balance. Do you think Mr. Moobs isn't ideological?
17,
Lat provides some balance. Do you think Mr. Moobs isn't ideological?
22,
I don't know. Is Yale LLC accredited by the American Bar Association? A member in good standing of the AALS?
@ 26,
It makes my day to see the same post from you in every single topic.
"[S]pokersperson"? Really?
I doubt anyone thought less of YLS from reading that inaccurate report. It was the toilet firms like Milbank and White & Case that everyone laughed at.
The New York TTTimes is a left-wing rag and propaganda tool that few serious people read anymore.
Lat,
Kindly do an expose on how little Adjunct Professors at New York area law schools are paid (3-6K for the YEAR, yes, the YEAR) to teach classes the elite tenured Professors deem beneath them, all the while as tuitions and salaries for Deans and tenured Profesors increase. In many cases, Adjunct Professors earn less than $10 per hour due to the hours commitment involved, all under the guise of adding a "resume booster" as well as taking shit from self involved law school students who all think they are due a first chair spot at Skadden yet cannot cite their way out of a Bluebook coated paper bag.
31, quit your bitching. Competition for adjunct spots from excellent practitioners is fierce. NYU et. al. could probably convert the positions to volunteer fellowships or similar and still get plenty of applicants. Never pay more for labor than you have to.
31,
Get a real job, you'll never be a professor, just deal. Adjuncts spots were never meant to be a career or your sole source of income. Its a part-time gig for retired professionals who want to spend some time on a campus again.
33- Yet they should still pay more per hour than they do to the cleaning staff.
34-- And the help gets benefits, Adjuncts do not. I quit my Adjunct gig after week 4. Simply not nearly enough to put in that much effort.
Recollect your thoughts, don't get caught up in the mix, 'cause the media is full of dirty tricks.
and they wonder why formal journalism is going the way of the dinosaurs.......they can't even get the "formal" part right
The NYT making up sources, facts, and sensatoinalizing stories? Now I've heard everything.
I've got it now. Elie Mystal is actually Jason Blair's made up AA BIGLAW pseudonym. Brilliant!
First to say that Lat says "we" due to the alien symbiote that melded with him during Secret Wars.
36 - Only God can judge me now.
The NYT should get better reporters - like Perez Hilton.
Lol at "adjunct professor" being considered a job. It's a hobby or resume booster -- not an occupation.
43 - Whats your hobby? I suspect it involves lubrication and the word "anal".
As for me, ever since Lat fired me ad I became homeless, the NY Times has been my most trusted blanket to sleep under. Doesn't make a shabby pillow, either.
18 - I doubt that. I'm a YLS grad, and I agree completely with what Lat wrote in his earlier post:
"no Yale Law School student would be caught dead saying something like this" (i.e., that they were "stunned" when TTT firms don't come to Yale, because they never get Yale graduates).