Rankings
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Too Clever By Half, U.S. News
SMU Will Pay You To Hire Their Graduates
It was only a matter of time. SMU Dedman School of Law is now officially willing to pay law firms to hire its graduates. The school is calling its new program “Test Drive,” which adds a nice layer of hilarity: Toyota wouldn’t pay me to test drive a Camry. Even the logo for this program […] -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Rankings
Clients Rank Their Law Firms: The 10th Annual Corporate Board Member List
What do your clients think of your firm? Unfortunately, in-house counsel don’t usually send a review of services along when they’re paying their Biglaw bill. But a number of them do rate firms when asked to by Corporate Board Member magazine. It has released its 10th annual list of top law firms, based on what […] - Sponsored
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Rankings, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (The Third Tier)
It’s time for us to discuss the third tier law schools. Every year, U.S. News ranks the top 100 law schools, and then throws everybody else into the third tier morass (which is better than the fourth tier morass, I suppose). We won’t list them all, but you can click here to check them out. […]
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Law Schools, Parties, Rankings
Party Law School Rankings
It’s time for the second annual Party Law School rankings. That’s right, apparently you can quench your thirst for a wonderful legal education without missing out on a good kegger. SubtleDigg presents (gavel bang: Tax Prof Blog) a “quality of life” ranking, that masquerades as a list of partying law schools: Though these rankings pages […] -
Rankings, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (78 – 100)
We have finally come to the last batch of top-100 law schools according to U.S. News. These are law schools that should not be called “TTT.” They aren’t in the third tier. Okay? They are in the top-100. That means that U.S. News thinks they are better than at least 100 other law schools incomprehensibly […] -
Cardozo Law School, Law Schools, Loyola Law School, Rankings, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (52 - 72)
Welcome to the top … of the second tier. We are at the point where the value proposition of going to law school is questionable. But the “nailing attractive co-eds” possibilities remain high. Check out some of the schools ranked in this batch. If you are going to spend three years and six figures on […] -
Biglaw, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings, Williams & Connolly
The Am Law 100 for 2010: 'It Could Have Been Worse'
Today is an exciting day. As we noted earlier, the Am Law 100 rankings for 2010 have been announced. This is a big deal — the Biglaw version of the U.S. News law school rankings. You can access the various charts via this portal page. Aric Press and Greg Mulligan summarize the results: It could […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News, UNC Law, Vanderbilt, William and Mary School of Law
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (17 – 28)
Given the legal economy, prospective students should clearly be shooting for law schools in the top-15. But, not everybody can rock the all powerful LSAT. Going to a law school in this group can still result in Biglaw jobs for graduates who want them — especially if the school is located in the market where […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Boalt Hall, Rankings, U.S. News, UVA Law
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (6 – 15)
Let’s continue our march through the U.S. News law school rankings. Today we finish up the traditional top-14 — and we’ll throw in the schools tied for 15th, because we’re pretty sick of hearing UT and UCLA students whine. To refresh your memory, here’s the next group of schools: 6. NYU 7. Berkeley 7. Penn […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Increasing Transparency in Employment Reporting by Law Schools: What Is To Be Done?
Lat here. Today’s topic: transparency in how law schools report their graduates’ “employment outcomes” — i.e., the jobs that their graduates obtain. When we attended admitted students’ weekend at Yale Law School — back in 1996, so almost 15 years ago — we were given detailed lists showing where the past few classes ended up […] -
Harvard Law Review, Rankings, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (1 - 5)
The new U.S. News law school rankings are out. Now it’s time to allow students and alumni to weigh in on their law school and their brand new rank. At the very top, the order remains unchanged. Yale, Harvard, and Stanford continue to be kings of the U.S. News world. If prospective students can get […] -
Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
New U.S. News Law School Rankings: They're Official
We reported on the leaked U.S. News law school rankings on Tuesday afternoon. That leak was correct, and the 2011 rankings are officially up on the U.S. News website, right now. That’s bad news for NYU kids. They should try asking Berkeley students how transparent it looks to say that you go to a “top […] -
Rankings, U.S. News
U.S. News Rankings Leaked? This Happens Every Year.
We anticipated that the new U.S. News Law School Rankings would come out this week. That means we anticipated that the new rankings would be leaked beforehand. It happened last year; apparently U.S. News has more moles than Jack Bauer’s office at CTU. We reached out directly to U.S. News rankings guru Bob Morse, but […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Rankings Are Valuable (And Here to Stay) So let’s focus on making them better.
Ed. note: In advance of the soon-to-be-released U.S. News and World Report law school rankings, we wanted to get a fresh take on why the rankings are something we should care about. So we reached out to one of the most well-known proponents of law school rankings, Dean David E. Van Zandt of the Northwestern […] -
Biglaw, Rankings
Most Influential Lawyers of the Aughts
Today, the National Law Journal lets us in on an ambitious project. The publication has tried to identify the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. The 40 people they came up with are relatively well known to the general Above the Law readership, but they won’t be household names to your lay-friends: The list […] -
Law Schools, Rankings
New Law School Faculty Rankings
Brian Leiter — outspoken critic of the profession’s obsession with the U.S. News law school rankings — is working on a new study about the strength of law school faculties. Here’s how he describes it: We’ll be posting soon a new study of the scholarly impact of law faculties at the ranking site which looks […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings
Best Law Schools for Getting a Biglaw Job (2010)
What should you do if you want to get a Biglaw job? Have sex with a partner? I wish it was that inexpensive. Most people will come to the conclusion that going to law school is a more reliable long-term career strategy than latching onto a partner stuck in a loveless marriage. But which law […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Biglaw, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
U.S. News to Rank Law Firms, and Now the ABA Is Concerned
Back in July 2009, U.S. News & World Report announced that it would pimp out its prestige whores to the law firm audience. For years U.S. News has dominated the thoughts of prospective law students and the actions of law school administrators. For years the ABA has stood idly by while a magazine has distorted […] -
In-House Counsel, Rankings
Law Firms Gain Access to Corporate Counsel Reviews of Their Work
We’ve previously written about the ACC Value Index, a tool developed by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) that is designed to “help[] ACC members share meaningful information about the value they get from their outside counsel.” We noted in our initial post that these client reviews of law firms were available only to ACC […] -
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Fortune Recognizes Six Firms as Least Worst Best Companies to Work For
Once again, Fortune magazine is out with its annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. And once again, a number of law firms have made the cut. (We’ve covered which law firms made the Fortune list in prior years: 2009, 2008, and 2007.) This year the list has six big law firms, […]