Sentences with phrase «about law school rankings»

Gladwell went on to talk about the Law School Ranking Game, a tool created by Jeffrey E. Stake at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

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Federal law requires Michigan's Department of Education to identify the bottom five percent of schools in the state, but it is unclear how MDE will go about identifying those schools without a statewide ranking system.

I remember when I was going through the on - campus interview process at Wayne State University Law School (a mere # 121), there were several interviewers that were quite candid about not even interviewing students from certain other low - ranking schools.

Predictably, the recent announcement of the U.S. News and World Report's law school rankings has generated observations about some of the factors underlying the rankings, from bar passage rates and faculty scholarship to whether the rankings are at all meaningful.

Bloggers have had plenty to say about the mismatch between student demands on the one hand, and law school rankings on the other.

Earlier this month at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the Law School 100, an iPhone app for aspiring law students that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United StatLaw School 100, an iPhone app for aspiring law students that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United Statlaw students that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United Statlaw schools in the United States.

The best thing about the crowdsourced rankings is that it gives law school applicants a second opinion about their prospective schools.

While I've been following the recent rumblings about changes in the U.S. News and World Report's ranking of part - time or evening law school programs, Amir Efrati's recent Wall Street Journal article Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter «Gaming», struck a nerlaw school programs, Amir Efrati's recent Wall Street Journal article Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter «Gaming», struck a school programs, Amir Efrati's recent Wall Street Journal article Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter «Gaming», struck a nerLaw School Rankings Reviewed to Deter «Gaming», struck a School Rankings Reviewed to Deter «Gaming», struck a nerve.

It seems you can't go a day without reading about how law school enrollment is plummeting, big law firms are imploding, lawyers are flaming out faster than 4th of July fireworks, and the profession, once regarded as something to aspire to, now ranks, in the public's imagination, somewhere between human bug - eater and professional sociopath in terms of status.

Frankly, with the proliferation of both law professor and law student blogs, and so much information about schools available online, I'm surprised that it's so difficult to break in to the rankings market.

Under the section How to Protect from Ranking - mania there is a discussion about the problems with rankings, and how to evaluate a law school.

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Back in October, I wrote about the impact the U.S. News and World Report rankings continue to have on on the behavior of law schools and how many academics now believe the tail of USNWR rankings is wagging the dog of legal education.

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Here's the rub, though: If and when — and given the money to be made from the rankings industry, one assumes that's it's going to be «when» — US News & World Report, the ranker in chief of U.S. law schools, starts incorporating GRE scores into its methodology, then all that is «bad» about the LSAT will come to be replicated.

A group of 125 students at several top - ranked law schools has issued a «Statement of Principles for a Renewed Legal Profession,» arising from their concern about «billable hour escalation and its impact on personal and civic life.»

A couple of weeks back I wrote about a brief study that ranks schools based on their rank on median LSAT score of the class entering in fall 2013, employment outcome for the class of 2013, and citations to their main law review.

From the firing of FBI Director James Comey and related investigations to the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change to law school rankings, Legal Talk Network hosts have had a lot to talk about.

Not long ago, Justice Samuel Alito told us what he really thinks about the U.S. News law school rankings.

Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching pedagogy, exam writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal faculty, curricular reform, law school rankings, and the very identity and purpose of a law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role of the LRW course.

It contains a bit of discussion about blogs and legal scholarship — ground that was covered quite comprehensively in the Bloggership Conference last year — but the main thrust of the article is that blogs «represent a cost effective mechanism for improving a law school's reputational rankings and, perforce, its overall rankings in the infamous US News and World Report.»