Richard Matasar

While many of the law school deans and other administrators at the AALS conference acknowledged problems with the system, most of the actual critiquing came from people with no power to change it. Media members criticized law schools, judges criticized law schools, outgoing deans that shamelessly profiteered off of unwitting law students criticized law schools -- and the people who could actually change their systems dutifully listened. But despite all of the critiques, there weren't a lot of schools that seemed ready to institute sweeping change to the business of educating lawyers....

Thomas M. Cooley Law School and New York Law School are both getting sued à la Alaburda v. TJSL, the lawsuit filed back in May against Thomas Jefferson School of Law by an unhappy alumna. What exactly are these lawsuits about? Kurzon Strauss, the firm behind the filings, has more info....

* Some bloggers stand up to dubious defamation lawsuits. [Techdirt] * And some settle: St. Thomas Law (or its insurer) is paying $5,000 to Joseph Rakofsky. [Simple Justice] * Another day, another lawyer accused of trying to kill someone — but not succeeding. (We might have more to say about this case next week; send […]

It’s time to announce the winner of our most recent caption contest, involving a photograph taken at New York Law School….

Last week, we solicited possible captions for the following photo, involving New York Law School: Let’s see what you came up with, and vote on the finalists….

The past week has been an interesting one for New York Law School. The school started off the week as the focal point of a major New York Times article, entitled Law School Economics: Ka-Ching! (which we discussed here). The school’s outgoing dean, Richard Matasar, struck back with a forceful response. We took note of […]

In the wake of the latest New York Times exposé on law schools, deans and administrators are spinning, spinning, spinning.

The New York Times does another exposé on law schools, finding fault with some schools and their administrators. But what about the students who choose to go to these places?

In these materials and in our conversations with students and applicants, we explicitly tell them that most graduates find work in small to medium firms at salaries between $35,000 and $75,000. — Richard Matasar, outgoing dean of New York Law School, quoted in a lengthy New York Times article entitled Law School Economics: Ka-Ching! (We’ll […]

New York Law School's long standing dean, Rick Matasar, is about to make his exit from NYLS. Matasar isn't telling people where he is going just yet, but he did tell the students that his stewardship of NYLS has left him with a great opportunity he didn't want to pass up. Well, at least one person from NYLS got a job.

The new U.S. News law school rankings are due out in March. And according to rankings guru Bob Morse, the publication is considering giving numerical rankings to the third-tier law schools. This would be a big change. For those unfamiliar with the law school rankings (and if you are unfamiliar with the rankings, you must […]