If you want to get a job, then you definitely shouldn’t go to law school in California.
Do you have something to say about your law school’s U.S. News ranking? This is the place to do it!
When professors attack! An Oregon professor gets into it with some protesters and ends up arrested.
* Republican Senator Rob Portman announces his support for gay marriage after learning that his son is gay. Yay! Let’s all celebrate him for meeting the lowest threshold of human decency once he found a purely selfish reason to change. [ABC News]
* Wait, they can declare martial law in Brooklyn? I thought they could only do that in terrible movies. [Before It's News]
* A Southern District of Florida clerk is named one of Southern Florida’s most eligible bachelors. Our bachelor “claims to be the other white meat” and to “have a lot in common with Christian Grey.” He doesn’t sound douchey at all. [Brickell Magazine (jump to page 91)]
* Comparing Chicago Law faculty to Game of Thrones characters produces surprisingly accurate results. [UChilawgo]
* With law schools raising tuition and the profession shrinking… more people need to rush to law school. Keep sipping that sweet, sweet Kool-Aid, buddy. [Daily Princetonian]
* GW Law’s Barrister’s Ball — $2500 fee for vomiting! [GW Law SBA]
* Watch Elie talk about Wayne LaPierre and guns. [HuffPost Live]
* University of Oregon Property professor doesn’t understand “property,” snatches student’s phone. Click through the jump to see more video of what happens when law professors and hippies clash! [Photography Is Not a Crime]
Here’s a law school putting more resources into career services. Is it a good idea?
In today’s Morning Docket: updates on the Justice Breyer robbery, security for the Supreme Court justices, and the Stolen Valor Act goes to SCOTUS.
| Student | Alumni | |
|---|---|---|
| Academics | C | B |
| Practical/Clinical Training | C+ | C- |
| Career Counseling | B- | C |
| Financial Aid Advising | C | B |
| Social Life | B | A- |
| School Funded | 8.10% | |
| Large Firm | 0.60% | |
| Federal Clerkships | 1.90% | |
| Government | 11.49% | |
| Public Interest | 6.9% | |
| Tuition | $28,348 / $35,368 | |
| Total Investment ? | $162,999 / $187,505 | |
| LSAT (25/75) | 157/161 | |
| GPA (25/75) | 3.18/3.66 | |