U.S. News

Prestige-whore Christmas will be a little late this year. On Friday, TaxProf Blog pointed out: Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, announced yesterday that the new law school rankings will be published online on April 23, 2009, the latest date since the annual rankings began in 1990. Over at […]

While we have been focusing on associate layoffs, law schools continue to ruin the U.S. News Law School Rankings. Yesterday we learned that Alabama Law School is offering people $20 worth of iTunes cash to simply apply to Alabama. How does this impact that U.S. News rankings? Because the magazine counts acceptance rate as part […]

In the interest of completeness, here are a few quick postscripts to stories that we previously covered in these pages, but didn’t get around to mentioning during the craziness of last week. They come from the National Law Journal and/or the WSJ Law Blog. 1. Judge Robert Somma: The cross-dressing former bankruptcy judge (at right), […]

Honestly, we are not trying to pile on Michigan. We know how obsessed some of their students are with their U.S. News law school ranking. But perhaps the law school administration has taken things too far in their attempt to make Michigan the “champions of the west.” From TaxProf Blog: Michigan’s new Wolverine Scholars Program […]

Law school deans continue to show the intellectual backbone of phytoplankton when faced with the big fish over at U.S. News & World Report. As the Wall Street Journal reported this morning (subscription), U.S. News is considering changing their law school rankings formula, and the wailing has already begun. According to the report, U.S. News […]