…Appears on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s Web blog.
I argue that the residential upzoning policies in the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan won’t really lead to more affordable housing. Here’s a quote:
[The] Minneapolis 2040 plan does something that no other
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Labor Dept.: 50,100 New Lawyer Jobs by 2028, Turnover of 27 Percent
On September 4, 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2018-2028.
For 2018, the BLS’s Employment Projections program (EP program) estimates that there were 823,900 lawyer positions (as opposed to discrete lawyers)
LSAT Tea-Leaf Reading: June 2019 Edition
Ahoy, readers! I bring good news: Now that we’ve endured a full year under the LSAC’s new regime of six LSAT administrations per year, I can now return to regular LSAT-tea-leaf-reading reporting! Woohoo!
But wait, there’s more! Because the LSAC
CLASS OF 2018 EMPLOYMENT REPORT: The Rankings
As an appendix to my employment report, here is a ranking of all the law schools that reported employment data by their percentages of graduates finding full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required jobs. (Taste all the those hyphens.)
PERCENT GRADUATES EMPLOYED FULL-TIME/LONG-TERM IN
Class of 2018 Employment Report: About the Same
Good morning, folks! Law-school-employment data are in, and before there’s a revision, this post will depict what they show. As with last year, I’m going to start with the headline information and save the law-school-level ranking of shame for later.
W&S Lawyer Employment Rises in 2018, Incomes Flat
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) usually completes its updates of its many measures of occupational employment for the previous year by April. Data for 2018 are now available, allowing a comprehensive summary of lawyer employment for that year. For
17 Law Schools Didn’t Report Graduate Debt to U.S. News (’18)
Each year U.S. News & World Report lists law schools by the average indebtedness of their graduates. Importantly, the figures exclude accrued interest, which can be quite considerable. However, these numbers are probably the best estimate of the cost of
2017: Full-Time Law Students Paying Full Tuition *Rises* By 0.4 Percentage Points
Discussions of law-school costs are incomplete if they do not account for discounts some students receive, usually merit scholarships paid for by their full-tuition-paying classmates. To analyze the phenomenon of discounting, I focus on the ABA’s 509 information reports’ scholarship
2018: Full-Time Private Law-School Tuition Up 3.1 Percent
Despite arbitrary data meddling by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and significant misreporting by law schools, I will estimate changes in annual (as in what people care about and what the ABA no longer
It’s 2019. Where’s My ‘Hyperinflationary Great Depression’?
[The following post first appeared on this site on January 1, 2012. What it said then still applies today, mutatis mutandis. Thanks for reading the blog and have a prosperous 2019!]
Behold, the curse of a long memory. Last January