The Association of American Law Schools’ annual Faculty Recruitment Conference—sometimes the “Meet Market” (or “Meat Market”)—was a longstanding complaint among legal academics. It took place ...
The 2024 law school enrollment figures have been released. They show an uptick in JD enrollment and a big rebound in non-JD enrollment. About 16% of law school enrollees are not enrolled in a ...
UPDATE: Please note, the USNWR rankings will be released April 8, 2025, and they are sure to differ from these projections—as I’ve noted repeatedly, these are only projections, and much can ...
The latest 509 data disclosed the LSAT medians of the entering 2024 students (Class of 2027) for law schools. Topping the list were Yale and Harvard, which each had a median LSAT of 174. ...
Let’s start with the overall portrait of sex and legal education. In 2016, women outnumbered men in the incoming 1L class for the first time. The total number of women has continued to climb, ...
The reports are coming in from law schools around the country about law students, either about to graduate or set for summer employment, losing positions in the federal government as the result ...
A recent announcement by the chair of the Federal Trade Commission with respect to the American Bar Association drew some attention. As announced:Today, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew ...
You can see that most schools have zero or negligible academic attrition, and that it picks up slightly as the chart moves down. But a few schools have somewhat higher academic attrition, 5% or ...
There is no question that there are several pressures facing legal education at the moment, and I’ll walk through some of them below. But, as I’ve reflected on them over the last few weeks, ...
Ahead of the new USNWR rankings release April 8, USNWR just released this detail:Outcomes are critical when considering an advanced degree. That is why three brand new law school rankings that ...
That’s the headline over at the Florida Supreme Court’s website. From the press release:To be admitted to the Florida Bar and gain the privilege of practicing law in this state, applicants must ...