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• NLJ: Going to Law School? Proceed With Caution

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  National Law Journal, Going to Law School? Proceed With Caution; A J.D. Used to Mean a First-Class Seat on the Gravy Train. Now? Not So Much. Critics Say Law Schools Have a Duty to Warn, by Karen Sloan: Make no mistake: A Law School Carol is no heartwarming holiday tale... [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:40pm EST
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• Top 12 Law School Acceptance Rates for MIT, Princeton & Yale Grads

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  The Daily Princetonian, U. Trails Yale in Law School Acceptance Rates: Undergrad Acceptance % at Top 12 Law Schools Average LSAT Average GPA Yale 37% 166 3.58 Princeton 32% 164 3.45 MIT 30% 164 3.32 Harvard and Stanford law schools refused to participate in the Daily Princetonian's study. The average... [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:24am EST
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• Ralph Nader Disses Law Schools

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  Ralph Nader Calls Out Legal Profession, Law Schools (The Connecticut Law Tribune): A University of Connecticut School of Law moot courtroom was a fitting setting last month, as consumer activist, politician and lawyer Ralph Nader sought to put the legal profession on trial. ... Nader attended law school in the... [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:22pm EST
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• TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

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  Saturday: Total Tax Ratio as Percentage of GDP, 2008 1/3 of Tax Returns Filed Pay Zero Tax (and 1/2 of Those Get "Refunds") TIGTA Submits Semiannual Report to Congress Lahav: Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools? Sunday: SNL on the White House Party Crashers... [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:40am EST
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• Do Law Schools Average LSAT Scores or Take the Highest Score?

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  Do Law Schools Average LSAT Scores?: [I]n June of 2006, the ABA replaced their longstanding requirement that schools report their students’ average scores with a new requirement that schools report only their students’ highest scores. Mind you, strictly speaking, this change had nothing to do with law school admissions, but... [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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• Lahav: Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?

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  Pnina Lahav (Boston University) has posted American Moment[s]: When, How, and Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 10, No. 2, Art. 13, 2009. Here is the abstract: Following independence in 1948, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem founded a law... [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• The Influence of U.S. News on Law Schools

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  Back in 2007, I blogged an article by Wendy Nelson Espeland (Northwestern University, Department of Sociology) & Michael Sauder (University of Iowa, Department of Sociology), Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds, 113 Am. J. Sociology 1 (2007). Today's National Law Journal reports on their related 2007 article,... [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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• NYLS & Hofstra Plummet on NY Bar Exam, Blame Bad Economy

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  New York Law Journal, N.Y. Law Schools Experience Slight Decline in Bar Pass Rates: Nine of New York state's 15 law schools saw a decrease in performance among first-time candidates for the July 2009 bar examination over last year, when 10 of the 15 campuses saw increases. ... The overall... [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• Connecticut 'Super Lawyers'

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  Following up on my prior posts: Which Law Schools Produce the Most "Super Lawyers"? (Nov. 4, 2009) Law School Rankings by "Super Lawyers" (Nov. 17, 2009) More 'Super Lawyer' Per Capita Law School Rankings (Nov. 19, 2009) Connecticut Law Tribune, A New, Simple Way To Rank Law Schools, by Christian... [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:30am EST
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• Funding for Grads Pursuing Public Interest Jobs: Up at UC-Berkeley & Georgetown, Down at Harvard

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  National Law Journal, Law Schools Pick Up Loan Tab for Graduates Pursuing Public Interest: Public interest graduates from several high-profile law schools won't be have to pay anything toward their student loans under recently revamped loan repayment assistance programs. [UC-Berkeley and Georgetown] have announced improved forgiveness programs that will cover...' [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:45pm EST
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• ABC News: Tough Market for Law School Grads

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  ABC News, Tough Market for Law School Grads: Law Students Across the Country Try to Adapt in a Struggling Economy, by Emily Watkins: For the first time in decades, the promise of a profitable law career for top students is uncertain, as law schools report significantly reduced hiring rates. ...... [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:31pm EST
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• More 'Super Lawyer' Per Capita Law School Rankings

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  Following up on my prior post, Law School Rankings by 'Super Lawyers', which blogged the Top 50 law schools by the number of "Super Lawyers" that are graduates of each school, as well as Super Lawyer ranking of the 50 largest law schools and the 50 smallest law schools. Here... [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:44pm EST
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• America's First $60k/Year Law School?

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  Last month, I asked Is UC-Hastings America's Most Expensive Law School? Its $50,310 nonresident tuition for 2010-11 was higher than that at the top law schools (which ranged from $43,900 to $50,140). Proposed tuition increases at California's four public law schools would blow the top off and create America's first... [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:41pm EST
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• Law School Rankings by 'Super Lawyers'

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  Following up on my prior post, Which Law Schools Produce the Most "Super Lawyers"? : the magazine has aggregated its rankings of law schools producing the most "Super Lawyers" in each state into an overall law school ranking which measures the total number of "Super Lawyers" that are graduates of... [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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• "Going to Law School Is Like Starting to Smoke"

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  Following up on Tuesday's post, Death of 'Big Law School'?, in which Erik Gerding (New Mexico) argues that law schools will face "massive economic pressure" with the demise of the BigLaw business model: Above the Law: "At this point, going to law school is like starting to smoke. It’s expensive,..." [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:57pm EST
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• Death of 'Big Law School'?

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  Erik F. Gerding (New Mexico) has an interesting post on Conglomerate, Death of "Big Law School"?: [The decline of Big Law firms] would likely mean the end of the law school boom -- with its expanding law faculties and the bumper crop of new law schools. Like it or not,... [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:47pm EST
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• IRS Office of Chief Counsel Seeks 2010-11 Professor in Residence

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  IRS Chief Counsel William J. WIlkins seeks applications from full, associate, or assistant law professors at ABA-accredited law schools to serve as the 2010-11 Professor in Residence (September 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011): The Professor in Residence Program. The Professor in Residence Program at the IRS Office of Chief... [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:15am EST
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