Brian Tamanaha has a piece in the New York Times, summarizing some of the main contentions and recommendations of his new book Failing Law Schools. Brian's description of the situation in legal education is refreshingly concise: The economics of legal education are broken. The problem...
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Among other things,the site Top Law Schools offers a fascinating glimpse into the psychology of prospective law students, aka 0Ls. A common affliction among 0Ls is what the more perceptive.
The Thomas M. Cooley Law School served me with a subpoena yesterday afternoon, commanding me to produce certain documents purportedly relevant to this civil action. The documents in question include.
That's one functional economic effect of New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's announcement yesterday that New York will become the first state to require bar applicants to donate 50 hours of legal services before they can be admitted. Lippman's initiative is so utterly wrongheaded on...
I’ve just read a revealing essay by Christopher Edley, the dean of UC-Berkeley’s law school, which was brought to my attention by Brian Tamanaha. Dean Edley looks back over the.
An acquaintance of mine, a professor at a top business school, is a big fan of state-run lotteries. "It's a tax that poor people pay voluntarily!" he tells me with.
The decline of American journalism has some things in common with the decline of the legal profession. Consider this piece of "journalism," published yesterday in Forbes, purportedly one of the nation's leading financial magazines: (more…)
Here's the key passage in Judge Melvin Schweitzer's decision, granting New York Law School's motion to the dismiss the class action suit brought against it by nine graduates for publishing.
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard somebody inside a law school complain about the school's career services office I could buy a brand new case book.
Calacatta marble. The author of this is a 2008 NYU law school grad, who is currently unemployed, living with his parents, and over $150,000 in debt.
The New York Times has published an interesting op-ed by Greg Smith, a soon to be former director of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. The gist of the piece is.
When I was about seven or eight I would watch the CBS Evening News with my father every night after dinner. This was at the height of US involvement in.