This blog posting summarizes how recent changes in the definition and reporting of law-school-funded positions have impacted the number of law-school-funded positions classified as full-time, long-term or full-time, short-term bar-passage-required positions for graduates in the Class of 2015. Comparisons between
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Mixed Signals from the Legal Employment Market – Preliminary Results for the Class of 2015
By Jerry Organ
THIS BLOG UPDATES THE EARLIER BLOG POSTING TO INCORPORATE DATA FROM THE ABA's EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY SPREADSHEETS FOR THE CLASS OF 2014 and CLASS OF 2015 AS OF MAY 3, 2016, WITH DOUBLE-COUNTED DATA FOR MITCHELL|HAMLINE IN THE CLASS OF 2015…
Projections for Law School Enrollment for Fall 2016
By Jerry Organ
In this blog posting I am doing two things. First, I provide a detailed analysis to estimate the likely total applicant pool we can expect at the end of the current cycle based on trends from March through the end…
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By Jeff Lipshaw
The Connection between Coaching and Mentoring and Great Lawyer Careers — Sporkin’s Kids and other Examples
My previous post excerpted the introduction “How to Solve the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem.” The article suggests that our diversity challenges are rooted in a systems problem. First, our systems for selecting and developing lawyers is seldom grounded…
Solving the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem
Below is an excerpt from an article I just published in the PD Quarterly. The topic is diversity, one of the hardest and most intractable problems affecting the legal profession. What makes this article different is that it is…
Conditional Scholarships Reprise – Of Sticks and Carrots and Asking Questions
By Jerry Organ
A few years ago the Council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar mandated greater transparency regarding conditional scholarships, requiring law schools that offer conditional scholarships to publicize on their webpages, and to applicants receiving conditional…
BU Conference on New ABA Standard for Legal Education Outcomes, April 2
By Jeff Lipshaw
Comments on Proposed Revisions to Standard 501
By Jerry Organ
Standard 501 requires law schools to have sound admissions policies and to refrain from admitting applicants who are not capable of being successful in law school and on the bar exam. For many years, Standard 501 has received little attention,…
Updated Analysis of Attrition through the 2014-15 Academic Year
By Jerry Organ
In October 2015, I posted a blog discussing attrition rates between 2010 and 2014. With the release of the Standard 509 reports in December, I now have compiled attrition data from all of the fully-accredited ABA law schools outside…