Posted on 03/10/2015 8:08:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“March madness” holds a different meaning in the legal world. While most of the country looks forward to fast breaks and Cinderella upsets, law schools are bracing themselves for another type of madness: the annual carnage left by the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
This year’s rankings drop on March 10, to be followed by the usual chaos. Deans at highly placed law schools will issue news releases; deans with less fortunate rankings will have their already hectic lives turned upside down.
The lucky ones will get fired. The unlucky ones will have to deal with the fallout. A flood of e-mails. Emergency faculty meetings. Ad Hoc Committees on Law School Progress in U.S. News Rankings. (That is an actual committee.) Adding to the insanity is that all law schools will be the same the day after the ranking as they were the day before. Law schools are in trouble, but not in a way that the U.S. News rankings can signal.
No law school has figured out how to handle the new normal of legal education: the lowest number of applicants in four decades; fewer legal jobs for graduates, and, according to Moody’s, “no relief in sight.”
While some argue that going to law school is still a safe bet, little evidence exists to support this position. The most elite law schools — the top 1 percent — will thrive. The other 99 percent: not so much.
Law schools are currently in a bidding war for the students with the highest LSATs and GPAs because U.S. News heavily emphasizes those factors in its rankings. Students with higher LSATs tend to have a higher socioeconomic status; poorer law students lose out on scholarships and end up paying full tuition, financed through student loans, subsidizing their richer classmates.
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We already have enough lawyers.
I look forward to the time when *ALL* the Universities are in a Death Spiral. One of the things we most urgently need to do is to separate all those Liberal Academics from their sources of income and influence.
With modern technology, many/most people don't really need real life instructors anyways. The Khan Academy demonstrates that anyone interested in learning can actually do so on their own. All that a University provides nowadays is indoctrination and "Credentialism."
We need to cut the money tethers between Universities and Big Government.
STEM is the new trend. Actually, it is not so new.
Oh I wish we had more conservative lawyers. Lawyers who are meaner than a junk yard dog when it comes to defending property rights, contract enforcement, and so forth.
Lawyers that will actually support and defend the constitution.
I grew up in a small town were we had 5 doctors in private practice, three lawyers and three movie theaters (1950’s). Now that same town has grown and includes 28 doctors in private practice, 82 lawyers but still the same three movie theaters. Think about it.
Well they are excellent at producing a-holes that later become presidents so i’m guessing the current one might have soured the pot. Harvard probably doesn’t even want to claim him as one of their own at this point.
Not exactly a “death” knell—especially considering the source. Never believe the “Compost Pile” of the NY and LA Slime and all their ilk. Truth is not the reason they publish anything. Their agenda is only for them to know and they will not tell anyone.
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A lot of legal work has been outsourced to India, where lawyers get paid a fraction of what American lawyers get paid.
I know the doctor and lawyer figures are astonishing but what really surprised me was a small town with 3 movie theaters.
That,to me,is astounding.
Most small towns have none.
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I’m your guy.
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Thing is, to me, a university degree should be a topping on a pile of a long term work history, not just a degree and then work. University needs to be treated as an end of high school, not an extension of it.
She has a great job as an underwriter in San Francisco and takes her conservative views wherever she goes.
They're not all bad....but many of her friends have not done so well
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