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Category Archives: Rankings
Cooley Law doing something right?
With all the negative press surrounding Cooley Law – historical (languishing at the bottom of the rankings for years and years, and its futile attempts to publish its own, self-serving rankings) and recent (its lawsuit that is trying to silence … Continue reading
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Update from Law School Transparency
The hardworking guys and girls over at Law School Transparency have sent me a link to this news release, detailing their request for the most recent NALP reports from every single law school. These reports contain the employment data for … Continue reading
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ABA Standards Committee close to expanding required disclosures for law schools?
According to this story, it is: If adopted, the proposed changes would more explicitly state the categories of basic consumer information that a law school is required to publicly disclose on its website, including admissions data, tuition and fees, enrollment … Continue reading
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Illinois Law scandal final report issued
And it’s business as usual, in my opinion. The report can be found here, the executive summary here, and the Dean’s statement here. The report confirms that it was indeed Paul Pless who falsified the data, essentially submitting inflated LSAT … Continue reading
Fifteen more law schools to be sued over misleading jobs data, and why these lawsuits may succeed
The National Law Journal is reporting that Kurzon Strauss LLP is targeting fifteen more law schools, including some fairly solid tier 2 schools, for misrepresenting graduate employment rates. According to article: Strauss and Anziska [the attorneys] said they are targeting … Continue reading
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Illinois Law scandal compared to Villanova – a feeble statistical analysis
So Villanova and Illinois admitted to fudging the stats. Which was worse? Let’s take a look… I was kindly forwarded a link to this news story (emailed to me by an employee of U. Illinois “damage control” department), available on … Continue reading
Breaking false law school data news – another offender…
How do you bury an unpleasant news story? You either release it late on a Friday afternoon when nobody is paying any attention, or you release it when there’s far larger news stories that will push it into the back … Continue reading
Do college administrators really dislike rankings?
Here’s an interesting blog post entitled “Grad school deans: Don’t be ruled by U.S. News rankings” by Daniel de Vise at The Washington Post. As expected, there’s little good news – merely more deans and administrators (from various types of … Continue reading
The ABA issues its predictably-feeble censure of Villanova
So on August 12, the ABA quietly issued its decision and “punishment” for Villanova after the law school was discovered to be reporting inaccurate admissions data to the ABA and the public. Villanova is by no means the sole perpetrator of this … Continue reading
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A response to NYT’s article about New York Law School
While I agree with much of David Segal’s NYT article, Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!, I was more interested in a subsequent response, entitled Critique of New York Law School misses point, written by Bradford Sussman. I’m inclined to believe that … Continue reading
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