UNC’s Bernard Burk has an interesting new paper on changes to the legal profession and legal job market, “What’s New About the New Normal: The Evolving Market for New Lawyers in the 21st Century.” Here’s the abstract: Everyone agrees that job prospects for many new law graduates have been poor for the last several years; […]
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Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Suit Against Cooley Law
By Jonathan H. Adler on July 30, 2013 9:55 pm in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
Today, in MacDonald v. Thomas M. Cooley Law School, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the SIxth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit by several former students at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Here’s the court’s summary of its opinion. The plaintiffs, twelve graduates of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, sued their […]
Debating the Value of a Law Degree
By Jonathan H. Adler on July 24, 2013 8:16 pm in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
The new study by Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre estimating the value of a law degree has sparked a substantial amount of debate and commentary, as I noted here and here. Most recently, WUSTL’s Brian Tamanaha, author of Failing Law Schools, went after the study on Balkinization arguing it systematically overstates the value of a […]
More on the Value of a Law Degree
By Jonathan H. Adler on July 21, 2013 4:46 pm in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
Following up on his posts at Concurring Opinions discussing his study (with Frank McIntyre) attempting to measure the value of a law degree, Michael Simkovic rounds up the commentary and critiques of the study on Leiter’s Law School Reports. I noted prior coverage of the study here, and Paul Caron rounds up some additional coverage […]
On the Value of a Law Degree
By Jonathan H. Adler on July 18, 2013 4:40 pm in Academia, Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
In the NYT‘s Dealbook column, Ohio State’s Steven Davidoff discusses a new study, “The Economic Value of a Law Degree,” by Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre. This study purports to show that a law degree remains a good investment for many people. Here is the study’s abstract: Legal academics and journalists have marshaled statistics purporting […]
More on Washington and Lee Law School
By David Bernstein on February 14, 2013 4:35 pm in Academia, Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
Professor Jim Moliterno of Washington and Lee Law School has a lengthy post over at The Legal White Board, which is in part a response to my post on this blog suggesting that the jury remains out as to whether W & L’s innovative curriculum is a hit among prospective law students. I noted that […]
A Call For Drastic Changes In Educating New Lawyers
By Nick Rosenkranz on February 11, 2013 1:30 pm in Academia, Education, Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
New York Times coverage of the mid-year ABA meeting, and the report of its Task Force on the Future of Legal Education, here.
Too Soon to Pronounce Washington and Lee Law School’s “Experiential Curriculum” a Hit with Law School Applicants
By David Bernstein on February 3, 2013 10:00 pm in Academia, Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
Bill Henderson has a post over at The Legal Whiteboard that has been getting a lot of attention in law school circles, praising W & L’s innovative curriculum, which focuses on practical lawyer skills, as both an educational success and as a hit with law school applicants. Bill goes over some of W & […]
More on the Law School Business Model
By Kenneth Anderson on February 3, 2013 7:47 pm in Academia, Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
A few days ago I posted on WSJ and NYT articles talking about the opening of new law schools in the midst of a crash in law student applications. Since then, a couple of other professors have posted comments on the topic, and I thought I’d flag them. NYU law professor Robert Howse, writing at […]
More New Law Schools Opening
By Kenneth Anderson on February 1, 2013 2:49 pm in Academia, Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools
Coming on top of news of the sharp declines in law school applications, the Wall Street Journal reports today on new law schools opening. The headline captures it: “A Crop of New Law Schools Opens Amid a Lawyer Glut.” Jennifer Smith reports that thought law school applications are at “their lowest in a decade,” a […]
Law School Applicant “Capitulation”
By David Bernstein on December 14, 2012 8:43 am in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
Back in 2008 or so, a VC reader told me that because of my blogging about the housing bubble in 2004-05, he put off buying a house and was very glad he did. Now, he said, he was wondering when would be the best time to buy a house from a capital gains perspective. I […]
Brian Tamanaha’s “Failing Law Schools”
Last week I had the pleasure of reading a pre-publication draft of Brian Tamanaha’s new book, Failing Law Schools, which has not yet been released but can be pre-ordered now. I found the book engrossing and its argument powerful. I read it in 2 days after receiving a copy, and I think it should be […]
NLJ on Misreporting Law School Costs
By Jonathan H. Adler on May 6, 2012 10:38 am in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
The National Law Journal reports on the under-reporting of estimated cost-of-living expenses at many law schools. The story begins: The news just keeps getting worse — at least as far as financing a legal education goes. Law School Transparency has recalculated its estimates of the debt that law students stand to incur after discovering that […]
Misreporting the Costs of Going to (Some) Law Schools
By Jonathan H. Adler on May 3, 2012 11:29 pm in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
In an effort to educate potential law students about the real costs of attending law school, Law School Transparency has launched a “Data Clearinghouse”, a database of “consumer information” on law schools, including much information law schools have been reluctant to disclose. The latest addition to the database are projections of the full cost of […]
Legal Ethics Forum Symposium on the Legal Education and the Legal Profession
By Jonathan H. Adler on February 6, 2012 11:25 am in Law School Tuition and Loans, Law Schools, Legal Profession
This week the premier legal ethics blog, Legal Ethics Forum, is hosting a symposium on “Legal Education’s Response to the Economic Realities Facing the Profession.” In this symposium, “scholars on the legal profession from the United States and around the world will post contributions about the implications of economic pressures on the way we teach […]