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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The Dark Side Of Law School
An Underlying Stigma Just when it didn’t look like law school news could be any more depressing, this gem came out at the beginning of the week. A new paper being released by the Journal of Legal...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The Little Law School That Could
Fledgling School Holds Strong In Enrollment Numbers With all of the negative news surrounding the legal profession, this story needs to be featured. It turns out that not all law schools are...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, A Necessary Conversation For JDs
“I hope there continues to be a conversation and dialogue about this.” These are the words of Brian Clarke. The “this” is the growing number of law students and attorneys suffering from depression....
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Hey, Supreme Court: We Are Through
Why One Law School Dean Is Breaking Up With The Supreme Court Imagine you are ending a 30-year relationship. Not fun, right? Right. Now imagine you write a 342-page manifesto proclaiming your disdain...
View ArticleNathan Allen wrote a new post, Princeton Review Releases New Rankings
Princeton Review Lists Cover Nearly Every Criterion Imaginable The Princeton Review 2015 law school rankings were released just in time for law school applicants to make the most informed decisions...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, It's Never Too Late To Go To Law School
A 93-Year-Old Audits Yale School Of Law Harold Kent is in his third year of attending classes at the Yale School of Law. He has taken Sports Law, Criminal Law, and his favorite, Convicting the...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Midpoint Career Salaries High At Law Schools
Law Schools Dominate Midpoint Career Salary Rankings Some superb news came out for law students, lawyers, and future LSAT takers everywhere this week. That is, at career midpoint (professionals with at...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Where To Earn The Most Money
You have just gone through the money-suck that is a legal education. Let’s say this is a perfect world and you get to work wherever you want. No limitations. As long as it is in America. Where do you...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, 12 Things No One Tells You About Law School
12 Things No One Tells You About Law School Ever wonder what happens behind the old scary walls that surround many law schools? The Kaplan blog had a post this week interviewing two current lawyers and...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Admissions Offices Stay Optimistic
There is seemingly a disconnect between the real world and law school admissions offices around the country. Since 2010, law schools admissions have decreased 37%. Earlier this year, the ABA predicted...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The Legal One Percent
The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Poorer In Today’s Legal Climate A week after Halloween, The New Yorker shared some frightening stats. In 1985, the country’s leading law firms had an average...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Interviewing For Law School Admission
Preparing For Law School Interviews In a professional setting, you need to interview to get nearly anything of value. Law school is no different. If they haven’t already, many applicants will soon...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The Bar Blues
Why Did So Many People Flunk The Bar Exam This Year? The results from the most recent bar exams (July) came in last week and spurned a memo from the President of the National Conference of Bar...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, One Week And Done
Charleston President Resigns After 8 Days On The Job What’s your most embarrassing moment? Blurting out a bad word while giving a presentation in front of important clients? Having a strand of toilet...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, When Deciding On A Law School, Culture...
Rankings, employment rates, professors, location, specialty areas, and notable alumni are all applicable factors in deciding which law school to attend. However, an often-overlooked factor is culture....
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The Bar Exam: The 'Russian Roulette' Of Law...
In the past few weeks, bar exam results from states have been pouring in. And the results are…not great. At best, they are a weird anomaly of significantly lower scores that law school deans and...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Law School Is A Buyer's Market
Top Students Are In Demand The good news about committing to law school (six figure debt be damned) is the market is shifting. And this shift is giving greater weight to the student. We all know the...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Law School Dreamin' By An 8th Grader
The sun will rise in the east every morning. We will have the opportunity to elect a new leader of our country every four years. Kanye West will say something dumb by the end of the year. Those are […]
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Columbia Law Postpones Tests For...
Columbia Law Postpones Tests…for “Trauma?” The recent grand jury decisions to not indict two police officers in the deaths of two black men has gripped the public’s imagination. The decisions have led...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Law School Enrollment Drops...Again
It’s the day many law school deans have been waiting for—either with excitement or trepidation. The American Bar Association (ABA) has released enrollment stats for the entering class of 2014 at the...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Apply To Law School Like It's 1973!
Enrollment Drops Yet Again Remember that Rocky movie? It doesn’t matter which one. Remember the part when Rocky Balboa keeps getting hit and knocked down? There are many. But despite the number of...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Top 10 Law School Rankings
“Who needs rankings?”You’ll hear that refrain from many deans. Can you blame them? In many ways, the U.S. News rankings are the educational equivalent to the S&P 500. And administrators’...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Is It Darkest Before the Dawn?
How Can Law Schools Survive? Take Responsibility Do you remember that annoying co-worker who’d blame anyone but himself? When an order was wrong, he’d immediately point the finger at his manager or a...
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Ethan Baron wrote a new post, Sex Assault Regs Broken at Harvard Law
Harvard Law School responded improperly to two alleged student sexual assaults, and its sexual harassment and sexual assault policies violated a federal regulation, the U.S. Dept. of Education’s civil...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, New Hampshire Takes The Practical Road
Law School Program Emphasizes Practical Skills Many law schools across the country are getting nervous. They are receiving fewer applications and fewer graduates are landing jobs. This has led to some...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, USC Gould Names New Law Dean
A high-profile U.C. Berkeley law school academic and administrator is leaving to take over as dean at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.Andrew T. Guzman replaces Robert […]
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, The Top 10 Law School Stories of 2014
Another year is in the books. And many would call 2014 a year to forget. Law school enrollments continued to plummet, and so did bar-passage rates. Reforms like paid field work stalled. Job placement...
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Maya Itah wrote a new post, Stanford Tops Tipping the Scales' 2015 Ranking
For the second year in a row, Stanford snagged the first spot in our ranking of the best law schools in the United States. To add insult to injury, Stanford beat No. 2 Yale by an even bigger margin...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The Cheapest Law Degree?
New Research Shows Where Law School Is Cheapest Looking to get a law degree in the cheapest way possible? On Monday (January 5), Professor Jerome Organ of the University of St. Thomas School of Law...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, 2015: The Year Of The Law School
2015: The Year The Law School Crisis Ended (Or Not) – Part One The American Lawyer has announced the prophecy of all prophecies. In a Babe Ruth move, they held their bat up and pointed it to the...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Lowering The Bar
Median LSAT Scores Lowest Ever Imagine that classic elementary school scene. You have a group of students at recess who are picking teams for kickball. As you’d expect, the athletically inclined kids...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, The 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education
Let’s start with an admission: This ranking is not a popularity contest.You won’t always agree with what these leaders say. Their positions may strike a nerve. And they don’t always play nice. In […]
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Dean Strikes Back Against Sexism
Law School Dean Strikes Back Against Sexism Depending on if your glass is half full or half empty, doing the right thing can be exhilarating or depressing. Nevertheless, Adam F. Scales, vice dean at...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Best And Brightest Or Dumb And Dumber?
Best And Brightest Or Dumb And Dumber? Like a scratched compact disc repeating the same tired phrase, some law school topics keep replaying over-and-over. This week, the annoying repeat is that law...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Law School Students Leave Behind Torts For...
Law School Students Leave Torts Behind (For A Bit) And Tackle Accounting Adjust and adapt. It is a survival tactic that’s been around since life itself. Along with critical thought and opposable...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The 2015 'Go-To' Law Schools
The Top 50 ‘Go-To’ Law Schools If you are going to go through the long and sometimes frustrating process of preparing for the LSAT and applying to law schools, it’s probably a good idea to get into...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, So Long, LSAT?
Law schools are continuing to throw Hail Marys. This week, law school applicants with poor standardized testing have reason to rejoice. A week after William Mitchell College of Law essentially absorbed...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Hiring Increasing for Entry Level Law
A Juris Doctor has seemingly become the equivalent to an English degree. In both cases, you analyze the big picture and argue the finer points. Like English majors, you gain prescient insights into the...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Yale (Again) Tops 2016 U.S. News Law Rankings
‘The more things change, the more they say the same.’That saying certainly applies to the 2016 Law School Rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Since 1990, Yale Law School has ranked No. 1 among...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Winners & Losers in U.S. News' Ranking
It’s not whether you won or lost. It’s that you competed. And you learned something. Never forget: there’s always another game to do better.Ever hear those sentiments? Did they really make you feel […]
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Practice Ready? Students & Lawyers Disagree
Practice Ready? Law Students And Practitioners Disagree There is a serious disconnect between law students and practitioners on just what skills are necessary to successfully practice law. And the...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Survey: Law Students To Foot Tuition Bills
Want to get law students to quit talking? Just ask them a simple question: “How are you going to pay your student loans?”They may spend days fretting over their class rank. And they lose sleep over...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, The Worst Law Schools for Student Debt
“You get what you pay for.” That adage has been slapped on everything from insurance to cars. It is a brand manager’s dream. It embodies the sentiment that price reflects quality. By spending more […]
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, The U.S. News Rankings Aftermath
U.C. Irvine Didn’t Make The Top 20: What Went Wrong? One of the underlying storylines of this year’s U.S. News rankings was the University of California-Irvine’s new law school. The school was...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Bar Exam Under Fire
Bar Exam, The Standard To Become A Lawyer, Comes Under Fire The bar exam just can’t catch a break these days. Back in November, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), took a lot of heat for...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Law School 101: The Numbers You Need To Get...
The good news: It’s often easier to get into law school than ever.The bad news: It’s also way more expensive.Well, let’s take an optimistic view first. According to a December paper from the National […]
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Which Schools Had The Most Applicants In 2014
Which Schools Had The Most Applicants In 2014? It goes without saying that the past decade has been rough on law schools. During that time, applicants to law programs have declined by 50 percent,...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Penn Law Beats B-School In Big Fight
It was fight night again in Philadelphia over this past weekend when a pair Wharton students channeled their inner-Rocky Balboas — Philadelphia’s favorite fictional son. They stepped into the ring in...
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Nathan Allen wrote a new post, Has The Law School Slump Hit Bottom?
Things were getting bleak. It seemed as though the news cycle was a never-ending record of enrollment and applicant drops, with law graduates faced with heaping piles of debt and no jobs. There had to...
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Jeff Schmitt wrote a new post, Law Schools That Deliver The Jobs & Highest Pay
Next month, graduates will sit through one final lecture. They won’t need to take notes (or worry about being cold called). Instead, their deans will deliver the time-honored graduation speech. Chances...
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