«Third, test scores are currently important factors
in law school rankings calculations, which are heavily relied upon by students in deciding where to attend.
At the Legal Profession Blog as well as on her own «Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot,» law professor Nancy Rapoport discusses the impact of the U.S. News and World
Report law school rankings on the behavior of law schools.
I've asked before are law blogs still relevant and now I want to ask a question about the impending U.S. News
law school rankings for 2016.
The likeliest candidate would be a journal or periodical of some kind, preferably legal (US News and World Report «s pernicious influence
on law school rankings is the exception that proves the rule).
Peter Kalis, the chairman and global managing partner of K and L Gates challenges the efficacy of the U.S. News and World Report Rankings in Gripes
About Law School Rankings From a Law School «Customer» in the National Law Journal.
Yes, there might be a problem
with law school rankings and reported employment statistics and promises of BigLaw dreams made and broken.
«Déjà Vu All Over Again at FBI Lab Main
Law School Rankings to Students: Don't Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want»
Princeton Review released their 2018
law school rankings at the end of October — top 10 lists with categories like «Best Classroom Experience,» «Most Competitive Students,» and «Best Career Prospects.»
The study — called the 2017
Law School Rankings Return on Education — looked at the salary - to - debt ratios for more than 60,000 borrowers applying to consolidate their student loans through SoFi between 2014 and 2016.
Are
law school rankings responsible for the paucity of law school curriculum offerings and counseling services that would help lawyers start law firms straight out of school?
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 nerve.
His belief, as he writes in the play's introduction, is that «
law school rankings encourage schools to shift resources away from improving the quality of the education they provide in favor of investing in improving their standings in the rankings.»
Law school deans are supposed to be the profession's gatekeepers, but far too many have ceded independent judgment in an effort to satisfy the mindless criteria
underlying law school rankings, especially U.S. News & World Report's annual list.
Joe and Elie chat with Research Director Brian Dalton about the
latest law school rankings from Above the Law and trends in legal education.
Elie and Joe discuss the 2017 Above the
Law law school rankings and the ATL methodology with special guest Brian Dalton, Above the Law's Director of Research.
The day began with a keynote address by my Pepperdine colleague, Paul Caron,
titled Law School Rankings, Faculty Scholarship, and the Missing Ingredient.
US News may be the big deal
in law school rankings, but there are competing rankings from Above the Law, Cooley.
The school had learned, just a week earlier, that it had fallen five spots (to 70th) in U.S. News & World Reportâ $ ™ s
annual law school rankings.
We've posted previously, here and here on some of the controversy and criticism surrounding the U.S. News and World
Report Law School Rankings, in particular, the system's susceptibility to manipulation.
Still, some critics of the US News & World Report's
law school ranking system have a more cynical theory for Yale's preeminence.
The 10 universities with the most applications were all ranked at No. 25 or greater in the 2017
Best Law School rankings.
While the results of the study might come as a news to law firm hiring committees, which have defined the «best and the brightest» by GPA /
law school rank for years, they don't surprise me.
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Now I don't know all the science and magic that goes into ordering U.S.
law school rankings, but I think that most of us would agree that these are all excellent law 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.
This year's
law school rankings are out, and once again, folks are madder than heck.
The law school rankings issued by U.S. News and World Report are widely reported, and are used by many law school applicants as a guide to prospective schools.
Despite the major flaws in
law school rankings, every year the release of the U.S. News law school rankings creates at least some buzz.