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  The Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Initiative and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver just released a new tool called Law Jobs: By the Numbers™. “This tool is a natural outgrowth of the law school employment data that is now available,” said Alli Gerkman, incoming director of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers and IAALS’ [...]

  Just like the rest of the Apple product line received a sales boost from the success of the iPhone (dubbed the “halo effect), stories are popping up around Time’s cover story below: I have no clue how the article reads, it’s locked behind a paywall. Does Time still come out in print? I was actually kind [...]

  In 195 BC, Titus Maccius Plautus wrote Asinaria, generally regarded as one of the great Roman comedies. It is renowned for containing the phrase: Homo homini lupus est – “Man is a wolf to his fellow man” It is a statement that is generally taken as prima facie. A quick scan of headlines reveals: VIDEO: Mob Uses Chairs in Vicious Beatdown [...]

  I’ve already mentioned it on Twitter, but if for some reason you’re a only-follows-the-blog type of guy/gal, you really owe it to yourself to check out Aaron Kirschenfeld’s The Law School Crisis, Visualized. It’s the best overarching accumulation of the law school crisis data that I’ve seen. Go check it out.

  Although you’ve probably heard from both of them before, law professor Brian Tamanaha, and Dean Mitchell of Western Reserve Law School were on WHYY’s Radiotimes yesterday discussing the topic “Rethinking Law Schools.” You can give it a listen here:   Here’s the TL;DR: Tamanaha Risk in writing book? Back lash from colleagues, but some were supportive. Negative [...]

  Quick FYI for those wanting to submit articles to Law Review/Journals, see this paper on SSRN entitled: “Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals“: This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited [...]

  The 21st century hasn’t exactly been rainbows and ponies for the legal industry. As has been pointed out frequently here and nearly everywhere else, lawyers are facing unprecedented pressures on the profession. This has led to new lawyers adapting and performing in ways that were not anticipated while in law school. In a paper entitled Practicing Theory: [...]

I download a lot of law review articles from SSRN. I know, I know, I’m a glutton for punishment. But I do it all for you dear reader. I also find it oddly satisfying to be 1 out of 112 people or whatever who have read one of these 50 page monstrosities. Why, that’s almost [...]

  Early this month, Kyle P. McEntee, Patrick J. Lynch, and Derek Michael Tokaz, the founders of Law School Transparency, released a paper entitled “The Crisis in Legal Education: Dabbling in Disaster Planning.” The abstract: The legal education crisis has already struck for many recent law school graduates, signaling potential disaster for law schools already struggling with [...]

  I’m pleased to announce a new semi-regular column is going to be appearing on Associate’s Mind. I have, since nearly the site’s founding, provided occasional commentary on the Great Conversation. I love the Classics and the insights they provide. The Classics are not a snapshot but rather stones thrown into the great lake of [...]