NOTE: The 2017 update to this guide is finally done!! You can download it here. I initially wrote about how to subpoena various social media sites back in 2011. Seeing as it has been a few years I thought it was time to provide an update. It’s worth noting that...
So the ABA is finally getting around to talking about the massive drops in enrollment. Yay! Now for some charts. First, all the schools listed by rank. (Edit: Professor Caron noticed that I had mislabeled Pepperdine red in the below chart, now fixed.) Next, all the...
Over on Reddit at the private, lawyers-only subreddit r/lawyers, a new lawyer with some experience under his belt had some questions about starting a solo practice. This was my response: I’d second myshingle.com as a good resource if you’re thinking about...
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 have very little to do with one’s...
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 195 law schools in the 48...