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"Trust Me"? Might Be Time to Verify LSAT/GPA Stats Self-Reported to the ABA by Law Schools

23 Sep

It is at the Univ. of Illinois College of Law. After an internal investigation, the University of Illinois reported that its College of Law’s median LSAT score was 163, not 168, and median GPA was 3.70, not 3.81, for the…

 

Law Grad Jobs, The ABA, And U.S. News

01 Sep

Two stories on the law student job market caught my eye today. One is from the Associated Press via Google News. It’s called Law Schools Lure Fewer Students As Jobs Dry Up. It relates how law schools in Missouri are…

 

Incoming Thomas Cooley 1Ls Relax! You Really Are Attending the Second Best Law School in the Country

10 Aug

… according to Judging Law Schools, 12th ed. (2010). And Thomas M. Cooley Law School doesn’t like it when anyone says otherwise. In case incoming 1Ls didn’t get the “message,” the Law School filed two lawsuits last month claiming defamation…

 

ABA Grants Full Accreditation to Two Schools

08 Aug

One of the outcomes of the American Bar Association meeting held in Toronto last week is the the full accreditation of two law schools. Drexel’s Earle Mack School of Law in Philadelphia and the Charleston School of Law in Charleston,…

 

WSJ: Law Schools Increasing Skills Training

11 Jul

Could it be that the new competition among law schools would be teaching lawyering skills? The Wall Street Journal is describing efforts by a number of different schools in that direction. New York Law School, for example, is hiring 15…

 

Are Law School Applications Dropping?

05 Jul

I’ll add just a little bit to Joe’s post, Paradigm Shift Ignored: On Reasons Why Law Schools Admit So Many Students When Their Employment Prospects are So Dismal. Law School applicants may be finally getting it, at least in some…