U.S. News
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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 […] - Sponsored
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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 […]
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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 […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News, UNC Law, Vanderbilt
Open Thread: 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings (16 - 30)
And now things get interesting. As we continue to run through the U.S. News 2012 law school rankings, we get to a crucial set of schools. The schools in this batch are certainly top tier, but they’re not “top 14”; for the most part, though, they charge like top 14 schools (especially the private ones). […] -
9th Circuit, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Musical Chairs, Non-Sequiturs, S.D.N.Y., U.S. Attorneys Offices
Non-Sequiturs: 03.23.11
* Were you skeptical of all the law schools reporting to U.S. News that the median private-sector starting salary for their graduates is $160,000? Forbes explains why your skepticism is warranted. [Forbes via Constitutional Daily] * On a related note, if you want to be a millionaire, you should definitely go to college. Law school? […] - Sponsored
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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 […] -
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Morning Docket: 03.18.11
* Gloria Allred is tired of Lindsay Lohan strutting her stuff into the courtroom like a debutante instead of a defendant. Chill out, Gloria. At least it’s actually LiLo’s stuff, unless that silicone was stolen, too. [New York Times] * The ABA is thinking up ways for law schools to more creatively rig their nine-months-after-graduation […]
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Cardozo Law School, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Start Your Whining (Part 2): U.S. News Makes Law Schools Squirm All Across the Land
Yesterday we talked about a couple of schools that fell in this year’s U.S. News law school rankings, whose deans promptly devoted school-wide emails making excuses for their programs dropping. Predictably, they criticized U.S. News’s latest methodology, even though this year’s formula did a better job of focusing on factors law students actually care about […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Start Your Whining: Schools Make Excuses for Their Poor U.S. News Rankings
We’ve already noted that there was no change at the very top of the 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings. The best schools remain the best schools. Further down the list, we start to see some volatility. Now, every year there needs to be some change in the rankings; how else is U.S. News going […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2012 U.S. New Law School Rankings (1 - 6)
Drums please. The U.S. News law school rankings for 2012 are here, y’all. Time to pay tribute to that which is more important to legal educators in this country than anything else. As is customary here at Above the Law, we will be posting a series of open threads, running through at least the top […]
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: Well, it might be in some people's interest....
[I]t is not in anyone’s interest — especially that of prospective students — to have less than accurate data being put out by law schools. It’s creating a crisis of confidence in the law school sector that is unnecessary and we think could be easily fixed. Specifically, employment after graduation is relevant data that prospective […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
The Best Law Schools -- Ranked By Law Firm Recruiters
We mentioned them briefly in Morning Docket but didn’t do more, figuring that perhaps you might have rankings fatigue. But we were wrong; apparently you can’t get enough of law school rankings. (This really shouldn’t surprise us, based on the traffic we got for this rankings post, and even this one.) We’ve received several emails […] -
Copyright, Crime, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Rankings, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, U.S. News, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 03.08.11
* Obama has created an indefinite detention system for prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Because he’s too soft on terrorism to make it definite. [Washington Post] * Utah’s new immigration laws will create a legal storm. El Niño! Spanish for The… Niño! [USA Today] * Lilo finally starred in another movie, and former wet poodle […]
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Law Schools, Minority Issues, U.S. News
Adding 'Diversity' to U.S. News Rankings Wouldn't Accomplish Much
We all know how important the U.S. News Law School Rankings are to our system of legal education. The jobs of law school deans depend on the rankings, and they therefore significantly impact what law schools are willing or able to do. It’s crazy that a for profit magazine has so much power over the […] -
Law Schools, Rank Stupidity, Rankings, Ridiculousness, U.S. News
Latest Cooley Law School Rankings Achieve New Heights of Intellectual Dishonesty
It’s Christmas morning here at Above the Law. Thomas M. Cooley Law School has released a new set of law school rankings designed to make Thomas M. Cooley Law School look good. Back in 2009, Cooley incredibly ranked itself the 12th-best law school in the country. Now the farce reaches new and glorious heights. In […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Villanova Scandal Watch: More Cryptic Emails From the Dean
This Villanova scandal is going to get uglier before it finishes. On Friday, we reported that John Y. Gotanda, the dean of Villanova Law School, sent a letter to students and alumni in which he revealed that the school reported inaccurate admissions information to the American Bar Association. The letter was light on specifics. According […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Closing the Loop on the Crowdsourced Law School Rankings
Last week we told you that The Conglomerate was crowdsourcing a set of law school rankings. It called upon participants to make head-to-head comparisons between different law schools, then crunched the numbers to produce overall rankings. We covered the early returns, in which Stanford was leading, with Yale in second place. Then came the University […]