Another look at the ATL Top 50 Law Schools, broken out by individual data points. Is your law school on any of these top five lists?
Our sources attempt to out the author of “Confessions of a Sociopath,” who claimed to be a law professor…
Mountain law school apparently doesn’t feel the need to provide heat.
Grade recall! Please send them back to the factory to get more air.
Which law schools are the toughest to get into, and which ones have the most competitive students? Check out the most recent Princeton Review rankings and see for yourself!
Check out the new ATL Law School Research Directory!
Why bother with client service when you can get your clients to service you?
As we noted yesterday, it seems like law schools are eager to sell off the naming rights to, well, just about anything that exists within their hallowed hallways. At top-tier schools like Harvard Law, they name their men’s bathrooms after notable alumni. At lower ranked law schools, however, it seems that notable law professors aren’t…
Last week, Elie derisively noted that legal blogs were pushing a silly story in U.S. News about great careers that you can pursue with a law degree. No matter how bad legal hiring gets, law schools like pushing the “you can do anything with a law degree” angle, based on the anecdotal evidence of those who were lucky enough to parlay their J.D. degrees into something non-legal. Obviously, Elie’s got some anecdotes of his own. But here’s a job, a real live job, that’s actually being offered to law students as we speak (or type). If you really want to know “what you can do with a law degree,” take a freaking look….
On-campus interview season has started at law schools all across the land, and it appears that the wild and crazy kids from BYU Law are taking the stress of OCI in stride. Given the economy, there aren’t really enough OCI slots to go around. Some BYU Law students decided to have a little fun with that fact….
| Student | Alumni | |
|---|---|---|
| Academics | B- | A+ |
| Practical/Clinical Training | C | A- |
| Career Counseling | B | A+ |
| Financial Aid Advising | B+ | A+ |
| Social Life | B | A+ |
| School Funded | 5.40% | |
| Large Firm | 7.50% | |
| Federal Clerkships | 4.80% | |
| Government | 12.16% | |
| Public Interest | 6.08% | |
| Tuition | $10,600 / $21,200 | |
| Total Investment ? | $148,516/Unavailable | |
| LSAT (25/75) | 161/167 | |
| GPA (25/75) | 3.45/3.86 | |