Many law students and new lawyers are obsessed with things such as rank, grades, and law review. But (thanks to the Legal Skills Prof Blog) I recently came across an empirical research study on SSRN that shows that those things ...

I noticed over at the Tax Prof Blog that the LSAC has begun releasing data on the most recent crop of LSAT information. At the Legal Whiteboard, Jerry Organ dives into the data and found that average scores are declining: Across the ...

Over at The Legal Whiteboard, Jerry Organ has taken my initial observation about the decline in law school applications from elite universities and run with it. In a series of posts titled Understanding Trends in Demographics of Law Students (Parts One and Two), ...

UPDATED. So earlier this year, the ABA released data on lawyers per state over the past ten years. Unfortunately, it wasn’t exactly in a useful or informative format. As people seem to enjoy when I post informational charts, here are ...

Human nature has a tendency to cloud judgment by introducing cognitive biases and emotion into the decision-making process. Data, on the other hand, is indifferent. It is impartial. It can be comprehensive in scope where lawyers are limited in experience. ...

Ok, last chart for awhile. I’m a lawyer, all this math is making my head hurt. I was speaking with someone yesterday regarding the decline in law school applications from top universities. She asked if I had numbers on colleges where ...

As people seem to enjoy charts, here’s another one. What we have here is the number of lawyers in the United States (as per available data) contrasted with the population of the United States. While US population growth has been ...

Since people seem interested in the trend of top university students avoiding law school, here it is in graph form as lawyers are bad with numbers. We’re audio-visual learners. Top University applications to law school plotted over five years. Not ...

Maybe they don’t like the job prospects? The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) regularly puts out data on law schools, students, applicants, etc.  A poster over at JDU had some free time and made an observation today about law school applicants. 2008 Applicants ...

  From time-to-time I review law review articles on writing, looking for skills and best practices in my own writing. I recently came across two articles on the topic: Legal Writing for the “Real World”: A Practical Guide to Success (PDF ...