pre-law students

Do you see your law school on either of these lists?

Whoa. This is a fantastic development.

Or should he go at all?

Berkeley, Penn, or Harvard, at varying price points -- where would you go?

If you want to resist, there are other, less expensive ways to do it.

How does your law school fare under this metric?

* For those of you too busy this week to follow Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing, here’s a nice collection of the highlights by Benjamin Wallace-Wells. [New Yorker via How Appealing]

* SCOTUS confirmation hearings are often compared to kabuki theater; law professor cum novelist Jay Wexler reimagines the Gorsuch hearing as, well, actual kabuki theater. [McSweeney’s]

* Insider trading: it’s not entirely about the benjamins, as therapist and executive coach Andrew Snyder explains. [LinkedIn]

* Is the Second Circuit sitting on juicy information about President Trump’s ties to Russia? [WiseLawNY]

* Law school applicants with high LSAT scores: which schools do they favor? [SSRN]

* Speaking of legal education, what are the secrets to law school success? Vanderbilt 3L Niya McCray shares her thoughts. [Amazon (affiliate link)]

What would you say to a young person considering law school today?

How will the acceptance of the GRE affect economic mobility and diversity at our nation's top law schools?

There's value in making people jump through the LSAT hoop.

Ummm this changes sh*t.

Above the Law has taken some of our most popular and most helpful posts about law school, and put them into an eBook for you.

Deceptive statistics are not yet a thing of the past.

In the wake of the latest U.S. News rankings, columnist Shannon Achimalbe lists four (more) types of people who should not go to law school in this day and age.

What an embarrassing mistake.

Yes, there ARE some people who are good candidates for law school today -- might you be one of them?

Columnist Shannon Achimalbe discusses the pros and cons -- mostly cons -- of going to law school today.

A law professor comes up with some homework for enterprising 0Ls. Get started on Gunner Academy!

Perhaps the most irresponsible advice for undergraduates ever.

A comparison of the number of law school applicants over the last three years.