Rankings
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Early Reactions to the U.S. News Rankings: Deans and the Excuses They Make
The U.S. News Law School Rankings are out, which means it's open season on law school deans. While deans from schools that dropped are trying to save themselves, deans from schools that went up in the rankings are crowing from the rooftops. -
Biglaw, Deaths, Federal Judges, Health Care / Medicine, Money, Morning Docket, Privacy, Rankings, SCOTUS, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Supreme Court, Trials
Morning Docket: 03.14.12
* Who will play starring roles in the Obamacare arguments before SCOTUS? A bunch of older white guys. Good thing this isn’t televised, because the ratings would probably suck. [Legal Times]
* The judiciary is on the cusp of a “financial crisis,” and some trials may be put on hold. That, or they’re just going to get rid of people. Which do you think it’ll be? [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* When rankings like these are available, who cares about U.S. News? Here’s a list of the law schools you should go to if you want to actually make bank as a lawyer. [Forbes]
* Covington & Burling is the latest Biglaw firm to sign up for an office in Seoul. Memo to partners: this is not the spring “bonus” your associates care about. [Capital Business Blog / Washington Post]
* The jury in the Dharun Ravi privacy trial is set to begin its deliberations this morning. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room — or, more on point, a webcam. [Statehouse Bureau]
* Thomas Puccio, a former Biglaw partner known for his notorious clientele, RIP. [New York Times]
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Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Out!
The latest U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are out - and there's a surprising amount of movement among the top schools. Who are this year's winners and losers?
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Law Schools, Rankings
How Stanford Law School Could Cut Tuition and Save the World
Professor Paul Campos has a drastic idea for fixing for what he would call the “law school scam.” It all starts at Stanford University, where he visited earlier this week to talk about his idea. What did he have to say? Does “30 percent unilateral tuition cut” mean anything to you? -
Biglaw, Fast Food, Food, Kenyon & Kenyon, Lawyerly Lairs, Nauseating Things, Rankings, White & Case
Biglaw's Best -- and Buggiest -- Cafeterias
Which major New York law firms have the greatest - and the grossest - cafeterias? -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Job Survey, Rankings, Student Loans
ATL Survey Update: Great Unmet Expectations
Do law students have unreasonable expectations about their employment prospects? Survey says.... -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Partner Issues, Rankings, Student Loans
Best Law Schools for Getting a Biglaw Job (2012)
Which law schools excel at sending their graduates into jobs at large law firms, i.e., Biglaw? Check out the National Law Journal's annual ranking of the top 50 law schools by the percentage of 2011 juris doctor graduates who took jobs at NLJ 250 firms. -
Bloomberg, Movies, Rankings, Videos
Bloomberg Names The Best Legal Movie Quotes of All Time; Can You Handle the Truth?
Regardless of anyone's opinion about people who work in the legal industry, it's hard to deny the fact that many of the greatest American movies revolve around attorneys. When Christopher Danzig watched Bloomberg Law's new video compiling the “The 10 Greatest Legal Movie Lines,” it was cool to see that several of the featured movies are among his favorite films of all time. So which movies made the cut? - Sponsored
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, LSAT, Rankings
Best Law Schools For Helping Poor LSAT Performers Pass The Bar
National Jurist came out with a very interesting ranking of law schools. The publication looked at schools that helped people pass the bar despite their low LSAT scores. While poor performance on the LSAT doesn't necessarily mean the student is dumb, it almost certainly means the students is bad at taking standardized tests. If schools have students who go from being bad at taking a relatively easy standardized test (the LSAT) to passing one of the hardest and most stressful standardized tests out there (the bar exam), it sounds a lot like they are educating people. But, should the law school get the credit for the success? -
Blog Wars, Blogging, Law Schools, Rankings
Ranking Law School Websites: Cooley Ranks Near the Top!
The people over a Thomas M. Cooley Law School have a long and illustrious history of inventing ridiculous law school rankings that magically show Cooley Law at or near the top. It's pretty pathetic to make up your own ranking and rank yourself. But now a third party has put together a ranking where Cooley has risen to the top. A Georgetown professor has ranked all the websites from ABA-accredited law schools. The top of the list isn't only about law schools that are trying dazzle students into making a ruinous financial decision. The rankings mainly seem to reflect whether or not law schools care about their website at all.... -
Biglaw, Rankings
Apparently They Don't Brand for Prestige
We like to talk a lot about prestige around here, but at Cravath, associates are learning that you can't spend "prestige points" on your student debt repayments. Branding is a little easier to take to the bank. It's something that firm managers and leaders work hard to develop and maintain that can directly lead to business opportunities. As we mentioned in yesterday's Morning Docket, Am Law Daily published an Acritas report on firm branding. The results will surprise the prestige conscious among you.... -
Alston & Bird, Biglaw, Rankings
Fortune's ‘Best Companies to Work For’ List Includes Four Law Firms
Each year in January, Fortune releases its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. As in years past, a few law firms have managed to sneak their way onto a list that includes companies like Google, DreamWorks Animation, and Goldman Sachs. With companies like that on the list, you’ve got to wonder (Elie […] -
Admin, Announcements, Biglaw, Blogging, Breasts, Disasters / Emergencies, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Law Professors, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Prostitution, Rankings, Shameless Plugs, U.S. News
Above The Law's Top Ten Most Popular Stories of 2011
It's hard to believe that another year has passed, but here we are. The weather is turning cold, the Republican presidential contest is heating up, and it's time to review this year's biggest stories on Above the Law. We'll refrain from offering our subjective judgments on the most important stories of the year. Instead, we'll identify the ten biggest stories of the past year as decided by you, our readers....
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American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, New York Times, Quote of the Day, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: Tuition Money Well Spent?
[A] law school could literally burn a huge sum of money and, as long as the flames were meant to teach something to the students — the craziness of the U.S. News algorithm, perhaps? — the school would benefit in the rankings. — New York Times journalist David Segal, responding to a reader’s question in […] -
Alston & Bird, Biglaw, Rankings
Crain's 2011 'Best Places to Work in NYC' List Includes Seven Law Firms
Since 2008, Crain's has been producing a list of the 50 Best Places to Work in New York City. This year, seven law firms made Crain's list. It appears that congratulations and condolences are both in order. So, which law firms are considered the cream of the crop in New York City? -
Bar Exams, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Rankings, Student Loans
The 'Best Value' Law Schools of 2011, Now With Numerical Rankings and Grades
In August, we reported on National Jurist's list of the 60 Best Value law schools. The list was unranked, but the final tallies for the honor roll have now arrived. In addition to the rankings, National Jurist has given letter grades to the rest of the schools on the list, ranging from A- to F. Wouldn't you hate to be a student or an alumnus of a law school with a failing grade? -
Fabulosity, Money, Munger Tolles & Olson, Rankings
Super-Rich Law School Graduates: Lawyers on the Forbes 400
For some holders of the Juris Doctor degree, "J.D." has depressing meanings: Just Debt, Job Disabled, Justifiably Depressed. But for others, "J.D." stands for something happier: Just Dollars. Lots and lots and lots of them. The 2011 Forbes 400 list has been issued -- and it contains a number of lawyers and law school graduates.... -
Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Rankings, Summer Associates
Very Happy Campers: The Top 10 Summer Associate Programs
A summer associate program at a top law firm is like sex or pizza: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. That seems to be the conclusion of the American Lawyer's 2011 summer associate survey. If you're a law student trying to figure out where to spend your summer, you're probably asking: Which law firms came out with the highest scores? -
Biglaw, Ho-Love, Hogan & Hartson, Lovells, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The Biggest Law Firms in the World: Meet the Global 100
Say hello to the Global 100 for 2011. This is the American Lawyer's list of the world's 100 largest law firms, ranked by total revenue. Lawyers are a competitive lot. So you're probably less interested in the overall figures than in how different firms fared in the rankings.... -
Biglaw, Rankings
The Watchword Is 'Labor' in This Year's Am Law Midlevel Survey
The Am Law Midlevel associate survey came out last week. Satisfaction among 3rd, 4th, and 5th year Biglaw associates is down for the second year in a row. That's a trend people should get used to. These midlevels who are whining right now are slightly missing the big picture. They might have to work long hours, but they are going to make serious bank for the rest of their legal lives....