LSAT
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Jersey Shore, Law Schools, LSAT, Reality TV
Vinny From Jersey Shore In Re: The LSAT And Its Relevance In Building A Legal Career
We’ve reported before on Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino’s law school aspirations. Vinny is now talking about his LSAT score, and his take on things is not going to sound strange to anybody who has spent time around recent law school applicants….
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* SlutWalk: no, I’m not talking about your weekend plans. Don’t tell law students not to dress like sluts, because they’ll use their brains and hold a half-naked protest about it. [CNN World] * More than 23,000 people downloaded The Expendables? Seriously? You deserve to be sued. My boyfriend made me see that movie, and […]
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INNOVATION IN ENTRY LEVEL RECRUITING
We’ve all heard how dysfunctional entry-level legal recruiting is: Inordinate expense, decisions made on the briefest of subjective impressions with opacity all around, and what do firms reap for all their efforts? Shocking attrition rates among junior associates. It’s time for a conference on what could work better, and this is it.
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Conferences / Symposia, LSAT, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Quote of the Day
Fun Fact of the Day: Surprising?
Performance on the LSAT is negatively correlated with networking ability. – Vice Provost and Professor Sheldon Zedeck of UC Berkeley, at a panel entitled Beyond Grades and Scores: Factors Predicting Lawyer Success and Effectiveness, at the annual NALP conference (which concluded yesterday).
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Biglaw, Grade Reform, Job Searches, Law Schools, LSAT
K&L Gates Still Cares About Your LSAT Score
Whether or not you think that the LSAT should be important, we all know that it is important. Scoring well on the LSAT is absolutely crucial to getting into a good law school. But usually the power of the LSAT fades after you matriculate to a law school. Usually people who are concerned about your […]
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Law Schools, LSAT, Non-Sequiturs, Politics
* Republicans won’t have Michael Steele to kick around anymore. [Huffington Post] * Akin Gump apologizes for a controversial post on Powerline by partner Paul Mirengoff. [Indianz.com] * Is WikiLeaks responsible for the Tunisian revolution? [Business Insider] * Speaking of Tunisia, MLK Day is important and everything — but maybe, just maybe, U.S. officials in […]
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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 […]
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* You know, I think the National Organization for Women should just try to pretend that Hooters doesn’t exist. The restaurant is just going to piss them off; who needs the aggravation? [ABA Journal] * If you trust legal advice you receive over Twitter, you’ve already lost. [Legal Blog Watch] * Apparently, Iowa lawmakers see […]
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Law Schools, LSAT, Student Loans
Above the Law Is 1 for 2 at Helping Would-Be Lawyers Do the Right Thing
And we might have had a perfect score if it not for that pesky God character floating around. In the past few weeks, we’ve brought you two stories about would-be lawyers trying to make critical life decisions. There was the first-year law student who was considering dropping out of law school after just one semester. […]
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Deaths, Law Schools, LSAT, Lunacy, Old People
Prospective Law Student Must Choose Between LSAT and Dead Grandma
Pure lunacy is on display today in the Dear Prudence column on Slate. A prospective law student is set to take the December administration of the LSAT. But his or her grandmother — for ease of reference, I’ll use the male pronoun throughout this post — recently lost a battle with Alzheimer’s. Hence this question […]
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Job of the Week: Better Hours, Better Culture, Better Future
Are you a junior to mid-level corporate/finance associate who has been contemplating a move to (or within) Washington, DC? In response to increased deal activity requiring “NY (or like-kind) trained” corporate associates, the Washington, DC corporate/finance market is experiencing an unusually high demand for your skills. Read more, and check out www.g-s.com.
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Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, LSAT
Does Hiring Smart People Hurt Law Firms?
Here’s an argument you don’t hear everyday: law firms who hire the smartest people are hurting their business. That’s the gist of the argument by Bill Henderson, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law who studies the legal profession (and whom we’ve quoted often in these pages). At least if we define “smart” […]
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Would-Be LSAT Cheat Places Craigslist Ad for ‘LSAT Stand-In’
There’s nothing like cheating on the LSAT to start off your legal career. Sure, even if you manage to get into and graduate from law school, you’re going to have serious problems when it comes to the MPRE. Or the Character and Fitness interview. Or the “following the law” part of being a lawyer. But […]
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Admissions Officers Expect Even More Law School Applicants
Kaplan, the prominent test prep company, conducts an annual survey of law school admissions officers. This year, those admissions people expect to be swamped by even more people clamoring to get into law school. Here’s the stat from Kaplan’s press release: Law School Applications Continue to Climb: 56% predict an increase in applications this year, […]
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Bad Ideas, Law Professors, Law Schools, LSAT, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
Law Profs Want Schools to Stop Reporting LSAT Scores to U.S. News
From the files of “things that will never freaking happen,” the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) is telling law schools to discontinue divulging LSAT scores to U.S. News for the publication’s annual rankings. SALT should duck before that flying pig smacks it upside its head. The National Law Journal reports: [SALT] has urged law […]
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LSAT: Testing Wealth, Not Logic
In our little world, the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is a career-defining moment. A few points on the test can mean the difference between going to a law school that can get you a job, or going to a law school where you’ll be locked in gladiatorial combat with every other student in order […]
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Books, Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Case, Kids, Law Professors, LSAT, Minority Issues, Non-Sequiturs
* What we talk about when we talk about federalism: University of Chicago law professor Alison LaCroix, author of the just-published Ideological Origins of American Federalism, discusses the relevance of federalism for current policy debates. [Political Bookworm / Washington Post] * Speaking of the Founding, if there’s another Constitutional Convention, I demand that all delegates […]
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LSAT, Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE)
Open Thread: Congrats on being done with the MPRE
And speaking of standardized tests…If you are a new partner or are on the cusp of becoming a new partner, register today for the ABA’s National Institute on New Partners. Full day program on April 17, 2015 (in bold) in Washington, DC and includes 1.50 General CLE Credit Hours, 2.75 Ethics/Professionalism CLE Credit Hours.
