LSAC reports that as of December 7 (roughly 30% through the cycle), applications for the law school class entering in 2013 are down 24.6% from 2012 and applicants are down 22.4%: Paul Campos (Colorado), Applications to Law School Are Collapsing: These numbers suggest that law schools will have a total…
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Author: Paul Caron

NALP, Representation of Women Among Associates Continues to Fall, Even as Minority Associates Make Gains: While women and minority partners continue to mark small gains in their representation among law firm partners as a whole, and while the percentage of minority associates has rebounded after falling in the wake of…
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Huffington Post: CCAC Cuts Adjuncts’ Hours to Avoid Obamacare Requirements: Community College of Allegheny County will cut the hours some instructors to avoid paying for their health insurance coverage under new Affordable Care Act rules. CCAC President Alex Johnson announced in an email to employees last week that the school…
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Following up on Tuesday’s posts: Number of LSAT Test-Takers Falls 16.4% (Nov. 20, 2012) The Job Market for Law Grads Has Been Declining for a Long Time (Nov. 20, 2012) New York Times: Law School Admission Testing Plunges: The number of people taking the Law School Admission Test … offered…
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Kaplan Press Release (Nov. 19, 2012): Responding to the reality that the toughest job market for new lawyers in 20 years may be the new normal for the foreseeable future, law schools are taking unprecedented steps to course correct. According to Kaplan Test Prep’s 2012 survey of [123] law school…
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The Legal Whiteboard: How to Increase Your Law School’s Academic Reputation, by William D. Henderson (Indiana): I have uncovered four factors that are associated with statistically significant increases and decreases of USN Academic Reputation. To illustrate, consider the scatterplot below, which plots the 1993 ordinal rank of USN Academic Reputation…
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From my friend and colleague Rob Anderson (Pepperdine), Google Ranks Law Reviews: Google has announced an enhancement to its Scholar Metrics that allows users to view citation rankings of journals in various categories. Among the rankings is Google’s ranking of law reviews, as well as a number of specialty law…
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The Faculty Lounge: What Matters Most (in Legal Ed These Days), by Bernard A. Burk (North Carolina): What I’ve mostly been listening to and thinking about is the swelling threnody bemoaning — or in some cases celebrating — the impending Demise of Legal Education As We Know It. … There…
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Following up on last week’s post, Rankings Scandal at George Washington: U.S. News has stripped George Washington University of its #51 ranking in the 2013 national university rankings because of GW’s admission that it has been inflating the percentage of its incoming freshman class ranked in the top 10% of…
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Registration is now open for our January 18, 2013 symposium on Tax Advice for the Second Obana Administration in Malibu: Introduction and Welcome Deanell Tacha (Dean, Pepperdine) Chris Bergin (President, Tax Analysts) Keynote Address: Michael Graetz (Columbia) Occupy the Tax Code: The Buffett Rule, the 1%, and the Fairness/Growth Divide…
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Author: Paul Caron