I theorized in Monday’s post about Cooley Law School whether the debt load a student takes on is worth it compared to the progressive income levels one may make in a regular job. Coming via JD Journal is a story…
Posts Tagged ‘school grads’
Is the Teaching Law Firm a Way to Produce "Practice Ready" Law School Grads?
22
Aug
The teaching law firm is a proposal offered by Bradley T. Borden, (Brooklyn Law School) and Robert J. Rhee (Univ. of Maryland School of Law) in The Law School Firm [SSRN] 63 South Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2011). The authors…
A Three Tiered World of Employed Law School Grads: Understanding The National Jurist’s Ranking of Best Law Schools for Standard of Living
15
Jul
The September issue of The National Jurist will publish its ranking of 135 law schools by a standard of living metric that uses median starting salaries, average debt payments, estimated federal and state taxes and cost of living adjustments for…
Paradigm Shift Ignored: On Reasons Why Law Schools Admit So Many Students When Their Employment Prospects are So Dismal
05
Jul
Commenting on the EMSI estimate of the surplus of law school grads on a state-by-state basis which was reported on LLB at Cut the Glut: State-by-State Empirical Labor Market Model for Law School Grads, in The Coming Crunch for Law…
Cut the Glut: State-by-State Empirical Labor Market Model for Law School Grads
29
Jun
In The Oversupply of Lawyers in America, ATL’s Elie Mystal asks “if we’re producing twice as many lawyers than we need, is it time to close half of the law schools?” I’m inclined to believe Elie’s answer is “yes.” I’m…
