U.S. News Law School Rankings
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2013 U.S. News Law School Rankings (1 - 14)
The latest U.S. News law school rankings are out, and you know what that means. It’s time to allow students and alumni to weigh in on their law school and their brand new rank. -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News, Vanderbilt
ATL Survey Update: Rearranging the T14 and Choosing a Permanent Number 15
Last week, we received our 4,000th response to the ATL School & Firm Insider Survey. We thought it would be interesting to compare how the vaunted T14 stack up based on our own survey feedback. Let's look at how the elite schools compare.... - Sponsored
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Morning Docket: 03.16.12
* While “Dewey remains a great firm with terrific lawyers” for the time being, check back in after five percent of the firm’s attorneys have been laid off. Then tell us how great and terrific things are, we dare you. [DealBook / New York Times]
* The University of St. Thomas School of Law really “take[s] data accuracy very seriously.” That’s why the employed at graduation rate the school reported to U.S. News was off by 47.7%, right? [National Law Journal]
* John Edwards has a judge’s permission to use Rielle Hunter’s lawyers at his campaign finance trial. Mmm, there’s nothing like getting some legal sloppy seconds from your former mistress. [Bloomberg]
* After two days of deliberations, jurors in the Dharun Ravi privacy trial still haven’t reached a verdict. Just think, if he had taken the plea, he wouldn’t be worrying as much about deportation right now. [New York Post]
* If Hemy Neuman’s delusions about Olivia Newton-John were about getting physical, instead of getting murderous, maybe he wouldn’t have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [CNN]
* It’s the most wonderful time of the year: March Madness! Are NCAA bracket pools legal in your office? It depends. Either way, all I know is that I’ll be betting on Lehigh. Go Mountain Hawks! [Businessweek]
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Early Reactions to the U.S. News Rankings: Deans and the Excuses They Make
The U.S. News Law School Rankings are out, which means it's open season on law school deans. While deans from schools that dropped are trying to save themselves, deans from schools that went up in the rankings are crowing from the rooftops. -
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? -
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Above The Law's Top Ten Most Popular Stories of 2011
It's hard to believe that another year has passed, but here we are. The weather is turning cold, the Republican presidential contest is heating up, and it's time to review this year's biggest stories on Above the Law. We'll refrain from offering our subjective judgments on the most important stories of the year. Instead, we'll identify the ten biggest stories of the past year as decided by you, our readers.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, New York Times, Quote of the Day, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: Tuition Money Well Spent?
[A] law school could literally burn a huge sum of money and, as long as the flames were meant to teach something to the students — the craziness of the U.S. News algorithm, perhaps? — the school would benefit in the rankings. — New York Times journalist David Segal, responding to a reader’s question in […] -
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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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Morning Docket: 09.06.11
* According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 100 new jobs were added to the legal industry last month. About 40,000 students graduated from law school this spring. You do the math. [Am Law Daily] * This Maryland law school dean thinks that the U.S. News rankings “generalize about things that are not generalizable.” Come […]
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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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Bar Exams, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans
The 'Best Value' Law Schools of 2011
The National Jurist has released the fifth annual list of the 60 Best Value law schools. But this year, the National Jurist made some adjustments to its rankings methodology to account for "fairness." Everyone gets a trophy in this year's Best Value rankings. You may be surprised at some of the law schools that made this year's Best Value honor roll. Check and see if your school made the list.... -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Musical Chairs, Texas
Musical Chairs: Dean of Texas Law To Step Down
Lawrence Sager, dean of the University of Texas School of Law, will be stepping down at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. He managed to get Texas into the top 14 of the U.S. News law school rankings, but all good things must come to an end. Why is Larry Sager relinquishing the UT Law deanship? -
Job Searches, Law Schools, UVA Law
UVA Law's Employment Numbers Are Less Than Impressive
The University of Virginia School of Law hasn't been doing so hot this year in terms of finding jobs for its graduates. Almost three months after graduation, we have some more bad news from Charlottesville, thanks to the Virginia Law Weekly. Just how many Class of 2011 graduates are unemployed? Read on to find out....
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Employment Statistics Shenanigans Open Thread: Which Schools Are Juking Their Stats?
All right folks, graduation is upon us. If you are a 3L who did not secure a post-graduate legal job, I’m sorry. Your life isn’t over, but law school didn’t work out as well for you as you might have hoped. At least not yet. Not that your law schools want anybody to know that. […] -
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 School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Looks Like The U.S. News Law School Rankings Cost Someone A Job
Many people, especially law school administrators, bemoan the U.S. News law school rankings. Sure, they have their pedagogical reasons for hating the rankings, but there are larger issues here. When schools drop in the rankings, heads tend to roll. Of course, law schools deans rarely admit they were ousted because of the U.S. News. But […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans, U.S. News
Law Schools Lie Like A Dog... Or A Rug. A Dog On A Rug.
I graduated from Northwestern Law in 2009. It is now 2011, my loans are coming due (real due — not the fake, put ‘em in forebearance, due of yesteryear), and I am currently “employed” doing two things: reviewing documents at an embarrassing hourly wage on projects that start and stop without any sort of consistency, […] -
Law Schools, Money, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News
The Best Law Schools -- Ranked By Financial Value at Graduation
Now is the season when law school applicants, having received their admission and rejection letters, need to make up their minds about where to attend law school (or if they want to go at all). We’ve received a number of inquiries from anxious 0Ls seeking advice about whether to matriculate at School X or School […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
More Law School Rankings: The Top Ten Most Popular Schools
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a seemingly endless stream of law school rankings. For example: the best law schools overall, according to U.S. News & World Report; the best law schools for getting rich (i.e., ranked by graduates’ median compensation); the best law schools according to law firm hiring partners; and the best […] -
Boalt Hall, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News, UVA Law
Open Thread: 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings (7 - 14)
Welcome Texas! As you are all know, the University of Texas School of Law has moved into the “top 14” in this year’s U.S. News law school rankings. It’s a bit of cheat for U.S. News: Texas is technically tied for 14th, which means that the magazine has actually managed to cram 15 schools into […]