Paul Campos has posted a farewell post at his “Inside the Law School Scam” blog. UPDATE: Comments from Paul Horowitz and Brian Leiter.
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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 […]
12-Month Suspension from the Bar, for Fraudulently Manipulating Billings to Get Bonus Money from Firm
Note that the fraud here was on the firm, not on clients. From In re Siderits (Wis. Jan. 4, 2013): In both 2007 and 2008, Attorney Siderits allegedly recorded in excess of 1,800 hours (1,803.3 hours in 2007 and 1806.3 hours in 2008). Because his recorded billable hours exceeded 1,800 hours, Attorney Siderits participated in […]
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 […]
Morriss on Tamanaha
Many commentators have praised Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools for its unflinching (and much needed) look at the state of legal education. Without question, Tamanaha was among the first to sound the alarm about legal education, and Failing Law Schools is an important book. But does Tamanaha go far enough? My former colleague Andrew Morriss […]
Are Regulatory Restrictions Killing The Law Firm Business Model?
There is an interesting op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today by the Brookings Institution’s Clifford Winston and Robert Crandall, authors of First Thing We Do, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers (the op-ed length version of which Jonathan blogged about here). The piece, cheerily entitled “The Law Firm Business Model is Dying,” uses the Dewey […]
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 […]
Shrinking Sales? Increase Prices!
The number of prospective law students taking the LSAT has declined significantly in the past few years after peaking in 2009-10. So what is the Law School Admission Council doing in response? Increasing the test fees. The fee increases include a substantial increase (in percentage terms) in the cost of sending LSAT scores to schools. […]
Panel on Reform of Lawyer Licensing at the University of Washington School of Law
This Friday at 4 PM, I will be on a panel on reform of the licensing system for lawyers at the University of Washington School of Law, in Seattle. I will be joined by Paula Littlewood, Executive Director of the Washington State Bar Association, and University of Washington law professor Thomas Andrews. The panel is […]
The Court’s Legitimacy
Following up on Jonathan’s post below, I’m not terribly worried about warnings from the left that a ruling against the ACA will undermine the Court’s legitimacy. Who, after all, is going to lead the charge against the Court? Liberal journalists like Linda Greenhouse and Dahlia Lithwick, whose human capital is invested in covering the Court? […]
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 […]