Prestige
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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, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
The U.S. News Top 10 Law Schools
The U.S. News law school rankings come out tomorrow, Tuesday, March 15. In the meantime, however, U.S. News has given us a little teaser. They’ve posted the top 10 law schools, over on their website. Let’s take a look, shall we? - Sponsored
The Ethical use of Generative AI
What’s the key to empowering your legal team with the efficiency and insight of AI while protecting the integrity of their work? Read this article… -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Vault rankings
Spring Bonus Mania: Freshfields, Cadwalader.... Where Will It End? Could Your Firm Be Next?
One of my favorite law firm names is Freshfields — Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, to be precise, but I prefer Freshfields. It makes me think of rolling green hills, crisp laundered linens, or a dairy, producing the creamiest milk in all the land. As it turns out, Freshfields is a law firm — a top international […]
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Law Schools, Rankings
Law School Rankings: Crowdsourcing Makes Them More Awesome
Everybody loves law school rankings, but these are special. These rankings are not based on a formula developed in secret by statisticians or prestige gurus. These rankings are put together by you. By us. By the mass of humanity that makes up the general mob. These rankings are crowdsourced. The Conglomerate is putting together rankings […] -
Law Schools, Rankings
Is Law School Prestige Wildly Overrated?
I don’t know how I missed this last week, but a study reported in the WSJ Law Blog claims that law school prestige is overrated. Significantly overrated. The ABA Journal — which picked up the story this morning — summarizes the work of a professor from UCLA and a professor from Brooklyn Law: [UCLA law […] -
Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Munger Tolles & Olson, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 21 – 30 (2011)
We’re rolling through the Vault 2011 list of the “prestigiest” firms in the land, so that you can comment on what it’s like to actually live, work, and breathe those firms (when you’re not choking on all the prestige in the air). We’ve covered #1-10 and #11-20. Here’s the next round-up. Now it’s time for […] -
Biglaw, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings, Williams & Connolly
The 2011 Vault Rankings Are Out!
Oh yeah, it’s time to get your prestige on. The 2011 Vault prestige rankings went live this morning. It’s the time of the year when associates get to make fun of their friends, and partners get to brag to their peers. Law is a prestige-conscious field, and the Vault rankings will set the tone for […]