Rankings
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Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
The 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Out!
Santa Claus — aka Bob Morse, rankings czar at U.S. News & World Report — is letting us open our presents early (or at least before midnight). The U.S. News law school rankings were supposed to come out on Tuesday, March 15, but Morse and his colleagues at U.S. News kindly posted them sometime around […] -
Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
The U.S. News Top 10 Law Schools
The U.S. News law school rankings come out tomorrow, Tuesday, March 15. In the meantime, however, U.S. News has given us a little teaser. They’ve posted the top 10 law schools, over on their website. Let’s take a look, shall we? - Sponsored
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: Well, it might be in some people's interest....
[I]t is not in anyone’s interest — especially that of prospective students — to have less than accurate data being put out by law schools. It’s creating a crisis of confidence in the law school sector that is unnecessary and we think could be easily fixed. Specifically, employment after graduation is relevant data that prospective […]
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Law Schools, Money, Rankings
The Best Law Schools -- For Getting Rich
Another day, another set of law school rankings. The world’s appetite for these things knows no bounds. Earlier this week, we covered U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools as ranked by law firm recruiters — and the reader interest and traffic were off the charts. Apparently there’s no such thing as “rankings fatigue.” […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
The Best Law Schools -- Ranked By Law Firm Recruiters
We mentioned them briefly in Morning Docket but didn’t do more, figuring that perhaps you might have rankings fatigue. But we were wrong; apparently you can’t get enough of law school rankings. (This really shouldn’t surprise us, based on the traffic we got for this rankings post, and even this one.) We’ve received several emails […] -
Copyright, Crime, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Rankings, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, U.S. News, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 03.08.11
* Obama has created an indefinite detention system for prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Because he’s too soft on terrorism to make it definite. [Washington Post] * Utah’s new immigration laws will create a legal storm. El Niño! Spanish for The… Niño! [USA Today] * Lilo finally starred in another movie, and former wet poodle […]
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Biglaw, Cardozo Law School, Law Schools, Money, Rankings
Law Schools That Will Get You Into Biglaw On The Cheap
Now this is an interesting list. Yesterday we wrote about how the National Law Journal ranked law schools based on how many graduates they send straight into large law firms. Even if you think law school is a “scam,” you have to at least acknowledge that it’s a pyramid scheme. There are some winners. There […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings
Best Law Schools for Getting a Biglaw Job (2011)
If your goal in life, or at least your near-term career objective, is to land a job at a large law firm, which law schools would best suit your needs? When it comes to minting Biglaw associates and partners, not all law schools are created equal. The National Law Journal has just come out with […] - Sponsored
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More Rankings: Top Law Schools Based On... Visits to Above the Law!
Here at Above the Law we do market research, just like everybody else. Some numbers just came across my desk that I thought some of you might find interesting. Who needs the Cooley law school rankings? I have a listing of America’s top law schools based on a metric far more important than the number […] -
Law Schools, Rank Stupidity, Rankings, Ridiculousness, U.S. News
Latest Cooley Law School Rankings Achieve New Heights of Intellectual Dishonesty
It’s Christmas morning here at Above the Law. Thomas M. Cooley Law School has released a new set of law school rankings designed to make Thomas M. Cooley Law School look good. Back in 2009, Cooley incredibly ranked itself the 12th-best law school in the country. Now the farce reaches new and glorious heights. In […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Villanova Scandal Watch: More Cryptic Emails From the Dean
This Villanova scandal is going to get uglier before it finishes. On Friday, we reported that John Y. Gotanda, the dean of Villanova Law School, sent a letter to students and alumni in which he revealed that the school reported inaccurate admissions information to the American Bar Association. The letter was light on specifics. According […] -
Biglaw, California, Job Searches, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Rankings, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: Is that the right cutoff? Discuss.
U.S. News & World Report issues rankings of law schools. The most prestigious law firms recruit from only the top-ranked schools. I am not endorsing this; it is just a fact of life. If you are good enough to get admitted to one of the schools ranked in the Top 50, and you are in […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Closing the Loop on the Crowdsourced Law School Rankings
Last week we told you that The Conglomerate was crowdsourcing a set of law school rankings. It called upon participants to make head-to-head comparisons between different law schools, then crunched the numbers to produce overall rankings. We covered the early returns, in which Stanford was leading, with Yale in second place. Then came the University […]
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Alston & Bird, Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Media and Journalism, Rankings
Annual 'Best Companies to Work For' List Includes Four Law Firms
Every year, Fortune produces a list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, and every year a handful of law firms make the list. And every year I wonder why some law firms made the list, while others did not, and whether Fortune actually has any idea about what they’re talking about. We cover […] -
Law Schools, Rankings
Law School Rankings: Crowdsourcing Makes Them More Awesome
Everybody loves law school rankings, but these are special. These rankings are not based on a formula developed in secret by statisticians or prestige gurus. These rankings are put together by you. By us. By the mass of humanity that makes up the general mob. These rankings are crowdsourced. The Conglomerate is putting together rankings […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law School Deans, Law Schools, LSAT, Rankings, U.S. News
ABA Considers Dropping LSAT Requirement for Admission to Law School
Really, it’s a good news/bad news kind of thing. The good news: the ABA committee reviewing the accreditation standards for law schools is starting to remember it has some power over how law schools operate. The bad news: the committee is contemplating a change that will only result in making it easier for schools to […] -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Third Tier Rankings?
The new U.S. News law school rankings are due out in March. And according to rankings guru Bob Morse, the publication is considering giving numerical rankings to the third-tier law schools. This would be a big change. For those unfamiliar with the law school rankings (and if you are unfamiliar with the rankings, you must […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
If you regret going to law school....
and wind up unemployed and some six figures in debt, despite graduating from a highly ranked school, can you sue… U.S. News and World Report? It sounds ridiculous, right? And yet…. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
U.S. News to Disclose ALL the Job Info It Collects: But Let's Not Lick Each Other's Popsicles Just Yet.
Last week, the people at the Law School Transparency project scored a major victory. They got U.S. News to agree to disclose all of the employment information the magazine collects about law schools, with the release of next year’s influential rankings. According to stories around the blogosphere, U.S. News rankings guru Robert Morse is even […] -
Law Schools, Rankings
In Defense of Law School -- Namely, Touro and Other Fourth-Tier Schools
Last week, I wrote a post about Touro Law School. The post highlighted allegations of wrongdoing at Touro College. In light of these allegations, and after talking about Touro Law’s reputation with a St. John’s law student I know, I suggested that the ABA might want to take a closer look a Touro Law — […]