When I initially learned that Harvard Law would start accepting the GRE as an alternative to the LSAT, I viewed it through the prism of the US News & World Report ranking and concluded that it was a very good
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New Learning Outcomes Database — A Searchable Clearinghouse of Law School Learning Outcomes
By Jerry Organ
The Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) is pleased to announce the availability of a new, searchable, web-based clearinghouse of information regarding law school learning outcomes – the…
Unfortunately, Harvard Law’s GRE is not a game-changer — and here is why
Revisiting the Market for Transfer Students Based upon the 2016 Standard 509 Reports
By Jerry Organ
This blog posting updates my blog postings of December 2014 and December 2015 regarding what we know about the transfer market. With the release of the 2016 Standard 509 Reports, we know have three years of more detailed transfer data…
Location, Location, Location Revisited — Most Law Schools Have a Regional Employment Footprint
By Jerry Organ
One of the first blog posts I had on The Legal Whiteboard focused on the location of employment for graduates in the Classes of 2010 and 2011.I have now updated this data by looking at the regional employment outcomes for…
Announcing Beyond Legal Reasoning: A Critique of Pure Lawyering
By Jeff Lipshaw
I’m delighted to be able to say that my book, Beyond Legal Reasoning: A Critique of Pure Lawyering, is now available for pre-order in hardcopy or e-book through Routledge’s website. Here’s the description:The concept of learning to…
Lawyers for People versus Lawyers for Business
The work of lawyers is increasingly the work of businesses rather than people. This conclusion flows from recently released Economic Census data, which is the U.S. Government’s “official five-year measure of American business and the economy.”For the two most recent…
Building a Portfolio of Court Cases the Way a Quantitative Hedge Fund Buys Stock
For the last couple of years, Dan Katz has been telling me and anyone else who would listen that law will eventually be a subfield of finance. Following Dan’s reasoning, this will occur because legal risk can be modeled and…
International Legal Hackers Summit in Brooklyn this Weekend
The 2nd Annual International Legal Hackers Summit takes place this weekend in Brooklyn, New York. The event includes an impressive array of keynotes, panels, workshops, demos, and cultural activities from leaders of the legal hacking, legal technology and civic innovation…