Following up on Wednesday's post, ABA to Study Law School and Law Firm Rankings:  Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, responds:

What is our take on the ABA resolution?

U.S. News and Best Lawyers welcome the opportunity to discuss both our law school and law firm rankings with the ABA. U.S. News has had a long-standing offer, which has never been acted upon, to regularly meet with the ABA or other legal organizations that represent law schools to discuss all issues relating to our law school rankings. The offer to meet was documented in this 2008 article by the ABA Journal….

The bottom line is that U.S. News believes that the law school rankings provide much-needed consumer information for prospective law students, especially in light of the ever rising cost of earning a J.D. degree and the current tough market for new law school graduates. Both U.S. News and Best Lawyers think that it's important for the public to have as much information as possible on the relative merits of law schools and law firms.