Posted on 05/15/2023 7:09:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Chronicle of Higher Education, a politically partisan higher education publication and lobby platform headquartered in Washington, D.C., recently sought to report on how law school rankings may have changed, due to a handful of progressive institutions led by Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley, that protested the U.S. News & World Report rankings methodology: the law schools claimed that these rankings undermined minorities by overemphasizing the schools’ elitist status, and thereby alienated many students from applying. The Chronicle tried to spin the new rankings as reflecting some improved outcome.
It should be pretty obvious, however, that there is nothing new about the "new" rankings: it is more or less business as usual, as the celebrated “T-14” or the top 14 law schools, all stayed the same with a few minor rank order adjustments. The various protests over the USN&WR ranking methodology instigated by a small group of "elite" law schools, were simple showboating over themes favored by the current DNC political party. Those themes are centered in race and wealth, and aimed at advancing various ways to re-order their weighted representation and distribution, respectively.
The elite law schools are considered elite for a reason -- they participate in a closed network of reciprocal economic favors that exclude, with the exception of a few token gestures, the many minorities, and much of the lower economic classes, who may otherwise aspire to attend such law schools. Yale and Harvard, especially also enjoy a monopoly in the Supreme Court (eight out of nine justices); it is in their self-interest to deflect criticism of their exclusionary status and relationships, by taking on an apparent advocacy posture on behalf of the disadvantaged.
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At the rate law schools are turning them out these days, pretty soon there will be more lawyers than humans on earth.
It isn’t just these schools. We need separation of Bar and State.
When wokesters rate something, the ratings can still be used, just use them in reverse.
Most of my lawyer friends are currently having a very difficult time finding lawyers to fill open positions in their firms.
After law school graduation, I have not been asked by ONE potential client where I attended law school. They only want to know what about your record as a lawyer.
The only people who care about where you attended law school are snobs in big firms and high-level judges.
My Cousin Vinnie!
I believe there was a former college president, who might have unsuccessfully run for the House or Senate (?), whose name I don't recall at the moment, who showed just that: that every man, woman and child in the US would in due course be a lawyer.
I suspect their ranking is too high myself.
Seems like 95% of lawyers could be replaced by AI.
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