Several years ago, as the legal academy was beginning to work its way through the implications of the landmark “After the JD” Project (AJD), one of the principal investigators, Bryant Garth, commented to a group of fellow
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Is there a right way to respond to the “Law School Debt Crisis” Editorial?
Amidst all the other newsworthy topics, the New York Times editorial board made law school debt the lead editorial for today’s Sunday edition. And the story line is not good. The editorial starts with the bleak statistics for Florida Coastal…
“Called On”: A Novel by Lisa McElroy
By Jeff Lipshaw
I learned that friend Lisa McElroy (Drexel) has published her novel Called On with friend Alan Childress’s (Tulane) Quid Pro Books. From the blurb:Libby Behl and Connie Shun are both at Warren Law because they want to make the world…
Part Two – The Impact of Attrition on the Composition of Graduating Classes of Law Students — 2013-2016
By Jerry Organ
In late December 2014, I posted a blog entitled Part One – The Composition of the Graduating Classes of Law Students – 2013-2016. That blog posting described how the composition of the entering classes between 2010 and 2013 has…
A meditation on Jeff Carr preventing legal problems at Valorem Law
This post could be titled “It pays to get out of the office.” It is about relationships and learning from really high quality people. And in the legal industry, we has more than our share of these folks.Back in 2008,…
William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law
On the heels of the ABF Research Professor job announcement, here is a second career-making opportunity from our friends at the American Bar Foundation.William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and LawThe American Bar Foundation (ABF) invites…
American Bar Foundation Research Professor
For those in the academy doing interdisciplinary work in the law & society area, being a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation (ABF) is very close to nirvana. Moreover, my former Indiana colleague Ajay Mehrotra is the…
2015 Median MBE Scaled Score Arguably Declines Less Than Expected
By Jerry Organ
Natalie Kitroeff at Bloomberg published earlier today an article with the first release of the median MBE scaled score for the July 2015 Bar Exam — 139.9 — a decline of 1.6 points from the July 2014 score of 141.5. While…
In India, Big 4 and Elite Law Firms in Direct Competition for Highly Lucrative Advisory Work
Lawyers may have a monopoly over the practice of law, but what exactly does the practice of law encompass? In most common law jurisdictions, the term is not even defined. And there’s likely a self-interested reason why. Ambiguity produces uncertainty,…
“In Praise of Law Reviews (And Jargon-Filled, Academic Writing)”
That is the title of a forthcoming article by Cass Sunstein in the Michigan Law Review. Sunstein has unusual standing to make this case because, in addition to his academic perches at Chicago and Harvard Law, he was tapped by…