* Must-read NYT article about law school, job prospects, and debt, and some responses to it. [NYTimes; AboveTheLaw; WSJ; Atlantic; Chronicle of Higher Ed]
* I'm quoted in this article about the rankings' influence on law school selection. [US News]
* US News might start ranking 3rd-tier law schools. [ABA Journal]
* ABA might stop requiring law schools to use LSAT, but most would probably still use it anyway. [Inside Higher Ed]
* Great parody of The Paper Chase, a classic law school movie. [YouTube]
* Stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress makes an assumption about apple juice. [YouTube]
* I'm quoted in this article about the rankings' influence on law school selection. [US News]
* US News might start ranking 3rd-tier law schools. [ABA Journal]
* ABA might stop requiring law schools to use LSAT, but most would probably still use it anyway. [Inside Higher Ed]
* Great parody of The Paper Chase, a classic law school movie. [YouTube]
* Stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress makes an assumption about apple juice. [YouTube]
Thanks for the post, Steve. The NYT article and the several responses were interesting. I agree with the writer of the Chronicle article, though, that the NYT article is itself a little misleading.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking to get into a career. I need income and a productive place in society. Maybe becoming a lawyer is no a guarantee of success. But I don't know of a career field, aside from medicine and maybe accounting, where the odds are any better.
On the topic of deceptive practices at law schools - well, I think the same could be said of many graduate programs. I previously studied a masters of landscape architecture, and the story is the same there: a promise of a growing field with more jobs than graduates can fill. That couldn't be farther from the truth.