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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 ...15 hours ago -
University of Miami: First Tier Law School, 20th in Number of Super Lawyers
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From the setting-the-record-straight department.An emotionally fragile online cockroach took offense to my contention that one has to be smart to pass the CPA exam and decided to trash my law school alma mater by suggesting it was a “third tier law school.”Alas, as is always the case with invertebrates, it got ...2 days ago -
U.S. News to Expand Rankings of Part-Time J.D. Programs
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Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, announced on his blog yesterday that the magazine will expand its ranking of part-time J.D. programs to include peer assessment scores: In addition to having a peer score on a 5.0 scale, U.S. News is contemplating including other...2 days ago -
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). Todays National Law Journal reports on ...3 days ago -
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 states 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...3 days ago -
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...3 days ago -
Public University Rankings by % of Out-of-State Students
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U.S. News & World Report has published a ranking of the public universities in its 2010 ranking of the Best National Universities by the percentage of out-of-state students in the freshman class that entered in Fall 2008. Of the 67 public universities in the First Tier of Best National Universities,...1 week ago -
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 as well as the 50 smallest law...2 weeks ago -
Americas First $60k/Year Law School?
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Last month, I asked Is UC-Hastings Americas 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 Californias four public law schools would blow the top off and create Americas first...2 weeks ago -
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 30-state ranking 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...2 weeks ago -
Law Schools with the Most Super Lawyers
Legal Geekery —
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On November 17th, Super Lawyers released a ranking of law schools. The schools were ranked by the number of graduates selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers in 2009. Cumulative research and peer evaluation scores were used to break ties between schools. The approach from Super Lawyers is intriguing. Instead of ...2 weeks ago -
Texas Bar Exam Results
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Here are the results of the July 2009 Texas Bar Exam for first-time test-takers by law school, along with each schools U.S. News ranking: Texas Tech: 94.52% (Tier 3) Baylor: 94.12% (#65) Texas-Wesleyan: 93.29% (Tier 4) Texas: 92.36% (#15) Houston: 91.63% (#59) SMU: 90.99% (#49) South Texas: 89.66% (Tier 4)...4 weeks ago -
U.S. News: GAO Wrong to Blame Us For Rising Law School Tuition
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Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, follows up on my prior post, GAO: U.S. News Rankings, Not Accreditation, Key Driver of Law School Tuition, in Whos at Fault for the High Cost of Law School?: There are weaknesses in the reports methodology. The GAO...4 weeks ago -
Which Law Schools Produce the Most "Super Lawyers"?
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Super Lawyers magazine has published rankings of the Top 10 law schools for producing Super Lawyers in thirty states. Here are some examples: California -- Northern California: UC-Hastings -- 462 Super Lawyers (17% of the total) UC-Berkeley -- 406 (15%) University of San Francisco -- 214 (8%) Santa Clara --...4 weeks ago -
Ohio Bar Exam Results
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Congratulations to the University of Cincinnati College of Laws Class of 2009, who earned a 91.0% pass rate on the July 2009 Ohio Bar Exam, compared to an 87.8% state-wide average for first-time test-takers. Here are the results by school for first-time test-takers, along with each schools U.S. News ranking:...5 weeks ago -
more rankings, more problems: us news to blame for high tuition.
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[cynthia] According to a study released by Government Accountability Office, we can all gather round and blame US News (and its less popular siblings) for the rapid clip of tuition increases in the last few years. According to my much-loved...5 weeks ago -
U.S. News Annual Assesssment of Law School Tax Programs
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I received in the mail today my ballot for the 2011 U.S. News Tax Rankings (see the 2010 tax rankings here and here). As in prior years, the survey is intended "to identify the law schools having the top programs in tax law." The survey is sent "to a sample...5 weeks ago
