Bob Morse
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
The 2017 U.S. News Law School Rankings Leak: The Top 100
We have the news before anyone else. Which law schools made the Top 100 this year? Click here to find out. -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
The 2017 U.S. News Law School Rankings Leak: The Top 50
We have the news before anyone else. Which law schools made the Top 50 this year? Click here to find out. - Sponsored
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
BREAKING: The 2017 U.S. News Law School Rankings Leak!
Which law schools may be the new kings elite of the U.S. News law school rankings?
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Law Schools, Rankings
Back In The Race: Why The U.S. News Law School Rankings Will Never Change
The U.S. News law school rankings will come out later this month -- and won't be much different from last year's rankings. -
Law Schools, Rankings
How To Fix The U.S. News Law School Rankings
The U.S. News rankings produce a host of incentives that do not align with the goal of providing an accessible, affordable legal education, according to columnist Kyle McEntee of Law School Transparency. -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
The 2016 U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Here!
Bow down before your rankings idols and pray that your school fared well this time around. -
Law Schools, Rankings
A Sneak Peek At The 2016 U.S. News Law School Rankings
The rankings aren't out yet, but let's take an exclusive look at the new Top 10 law schools in the nation! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.19.15
* “Let’s face it: There are some people here that will not vote for her unless she says what they want her to say, that the president committed an illegal act by these [immigration] executive orders.” Loretta Lynch is having a tough time making Republican friends. [The Hill]
* Some new details have been released on the investigation into DLA Piper associate David Messerschmitt’s death. Per police records, he was stabbed in the back, and was found in his hotel room with “lubricant and condom” and an “enema.” We’ll have more on this development later today. [Legal Times]
* The rankings are coming! THE RANKINGS ARE COMING! Rankings guru Bob Morse, the man who holds law school deans’ jobs in his hands, says the 2016 U.S. News Law School Rankings will be out on March 10. [Morse Code / U.S. News & World Report]
* A patent lawyer with Asperger’s syndrome is suing Patterson & Sheridan for discrimination. In his suit, he claims that a prominent partner was allowed to continually harass him in a purported quest to drive him out. Ah, law firm life. [The Recorder]
* The case against the ex-leaders of Dewey & LeBoeuf hinges on the testimony of the failed firm’s former employees. Defense attorneys, of course, are trying to get things barred from admission — including one defendant’s link to a mob member. [New York Law Journal]
* “We’re still in the same position we’ve been in. There’s progress, but things are moving at a snail’s pace.” As we mentioned earlier this week, according to NALP, the percentage of women associates in law firms is up… but not by much. [DealBook / New York Times]
* One of the best law schools in the country will have a brand new dean come this summer. Congratulations to Theodore Ruger, a longtime law professor who will assume the deanship at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in July. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Clerkships, Rankings, U.S. News
Which Law Schools Get The Most Clerkships?
U.S. News releases its findings on the most successful law schools when it comes to placing grads in clerkships. -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
A Sneak Peek At The 2015 U.S. News Law School Rankings
Everyone's favorite time of year is so very close. Let's take a look at the Top 10 law schools in the nation! -
Basketball, Clerkships, Environment / Environmental Law, General Counsel, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Old People, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants
Morning Docket: 04.12.13
* Earlier this week, after some political wrangling, Senator Chuck Grassley proposed the Court Efficiency Act in the hope of paring down the D.C. Circuit. But really, come on, what are the odds of that happening… again? [National Law Journal]
* Biglaw partners, rejoice, for it seems that your legal secretaries will be unable to sue you for defamation over emails written to your wives. Spousal privilege, baby! (N.B. This doesn’t apply to your girlfriends.) [New York Law Journal]
* Which law schools placed the highest percentage of grads in federal clerkships? This info comes from the rankings guru himself. We may have more on this later. [Morse Code / U.S. News & World Report]
* The Rutgers basketball scandal claimed another scalp yesterday after the school’s former general counsel resigned. Rutgers Law dean John Farmer will be stepping in for a brief assist. [Star-Ledger]
* So, do you remember that environmental report Steven Donziger allegedly had made up in the Chevron case? Yeah, the consulting firm just disavowed all of the evidence in the report. Oops! [Businessweek]
* Say so long to your retirement money, sweetie: Junie Hoang, the actress who sued IMDb for revealing the fact that she was over the hill, received a less than favorable jury verdict. [Houston Chronicle]
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
The 2014 U.S. News Law School Rankings
The U.S. News law school rankings are out! ALL BOW TO OUR LIST MAKING OVERLORDS! -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
A Sneak Peek at the 2014 U.S. News Law School Rankings
Everyone's favorite time of year is so very close. Let's take a look at the Top 10 law schools in the nation!
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Books, Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Rankings, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: U.S. News Isn't Trying to Help Law Schools
The U.S. News Best Law School rankings are aimed at prospective students, not law school administrators... -
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? -
9th Circuit, American Bar Association / ABA, Banking Law, Crime, Department of Justice, Fat People, Health Care / Medicine, Insider Trading, Military / Military Law, Money, Morning Docket, U.S. News
Morning Docket: 09.30.11
* Now that DADT has been repealed, the Ninth Circuit has tossed the Log Cabin Republicans case. How does that Paula Abdul song go? Two steps forward, two steps back? [Los Angeles Times] * Is this a new way of protecting taxpayers? In early 2012, Bank of America is going to start charging $5 a […]
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American Bar Association / ABA, Antitrust, Biglaw, Celebrities, Google / Search Engines, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Murder, Pictures, Screw-Ups, Shoes, U.S. News
Morning Docket: 09.02.11
* Bob Morse announces that new jobs data may be used to change the methodology for calculating law school employment rates. Because Bob Morse has to do the ABA’s job for them. HIYOOOO! [U.S. News & World Report] * And speaking of employment (or lack thereof), it looks like UDel and SUNY Stony Brook have […]
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
It's On Now: U.S. News Tells Law Schools To Take Some Responsibility
On Monday, we talked about the big New York Times article over the weekend about the way law schools use merit-based scholarships to rope students in. When discussing the need to give out scholarships, the Times cites some very familiar language about how fixation on the U.S. News rankings guides the decisionmaking processes of many […] -
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, 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 […]