ABA President Jmes Silkenat questions whether President Obama really meant to say that law degrees should be for two years, rather than three. What he meant, according to the lawyer’s president rather than the country’s, was that J.D. degrees should be less expensive. [wp_ad_camp_3] The comments were made during a tour when the president was […]
Parody has often been the strong point for law student reviews and so when a group of Auckland law students took on Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” it was parody on their minds. But not for YouTube, who banned their steamy take on the Thicke video, which features topless models and is designed to blur the
Steven J. Harper is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and author of The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, April 2013), and other books. He retired as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in 2008, after 30 years in private practice. This article appeared in The American Lawyer. In June the legal
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AbovetheLaw is not used to towing the line when it comes to conventional law reportage, which is not a bad thing. Nor are the blog’s law school rankings, which looks at prioritizing outcomes in terms of the prestige (and pay packet) of any law job before deciding which law school to attend or – indeed
The pass rate requirements for US law schools may become tougher if American Bar Association changes are made. It appears certain that the ABA committee that is responsible for supervising law school accreditation stardards will endorse a rule that requires a minimum 80 per cent of graduates to pass the bar examination within two years
The National Law Journal has taken on the task of wading throught he data to find which law schools that are ABA-accredited and what job opportunities they provide. The ABA has provided more information about how law schools actually report law placements in the wake of some stinging criticism about their practises. The ABA has
Top law schools for making money? What could be a more intellectually rigorous question for an impending law school graduate, or under-graduate, than that? First there was the US News & World Report Law School rankings but now something far more impressive and important: the Forbes rankings focused on law firm starting salaries. What are
Yale Law School takes the top position in the latest US News and World report rankings, a list that has stirred controversy and debate in recent times. The US News rankings displayed relatively few changes in the top 10 positions, although it was lower down the law school rankings where major changes occurred. In the
Controversy over law schools’ over-selling of their courses, the down law jobs market and other issues have radically altered the way in which some law shcools are operating. Take Arizona State University as a case in point. The university is starting a non-profit law firm to use law students who will work with experienced attorneys
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