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Legal Education
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2010 U.S. News Placement Success Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
I previously blogged the three Placement Success components of the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which together count 20% in the U.S. News methodology: Employed Nine Months After Graduation (14%) Employed at Graduation (4%) Bar Passage Rate (2%) The Placement Success ranking below weights the Employed at Nine Months, Employed at Graduation, and Bar Passage individual ranks…
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Law Prof Sues St. Mary’s for Nonrenewal of Contract After 10 Years on Faculty; Alleges Retaliation for Husband’s Lawsuit Over His Removal as Dean
Texas Lawyer: Texas Law School Professor Alleges Age and Gender Discrimination: St. Mary's University School of Law instructor Rosanne Piatt's days at the school are numbered. That's despite the high ratings her students in family law and legal research and writing classes gave her on a fall 2008 evaluation survey. Piatt says she taught her…
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2009 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition
For students completing tax seminar papers this spring: The Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and American College of Tax Counsel are sponsoring the 2009 Tannenwald Writing Competition: Named for the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., and designed to perpetuate his dedication to legal scholarship of the highest quality, the…
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Faculty Union Objects to Students Tracking Classes That Start Late and Are Cancelled Without Notice
Britain's faculty union is complaining that students are "snooping" on professors in response to complaints about professors starting classes late or cancelling classes without notice to advance students. A student group is attempting to document the severity of the problem and has asked students to send a text message to a special hotline whenever this happens to them. But a faculty spokesman…
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Did 23 Law Schools Commit Rankings Malpractice?
Several readers noted the curious fact that 64 law schools did not supply U.S. News with the percentage of its Class of 2007 that was employed at graduation; this component counts 4% in the methodology used in the 2010 Law School Rankings. One commenter explained: According to U.S. News, when a school does not report this number, 30% is subtracted from the…
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Bogdanski & Donaldson: Teaching Tax and Other Tedious Topics
John A. Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) & Samuel A. Donaldson (U. Washington) have published Teaching Tax and Other Tedious Topics, 17 Perspectives – Teaching Legal Research & Writing 102 (2009): Let Them See You Care Know the Material Cold Give Context to the Unfamiliar Convert Potential Energy into Kinetic Energy PowerPoint Is Your Tool, Not Your…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: Taxpayer Submits Affidavits of Senate Staffers to Establish Meaning of Tax Transition Rule in K-I Holdings Open CRS Releases Tax Reports Adler & Hewitt: The FairTax Fantasy Jensen Posts Tax Papers on SSRN Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Shaviro Presents The 2008-09 Financial Crisis: Implications for Tax Reform in Milan Improving, Not Eliminating,…
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2010 U.S. News Bar Passage Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
Continuing my coverage of the Placement Success component of the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which counts 20% in the U.S. News methodology: the chart below compares the Bar Passage data (2%) with the school’s overall ranking: Bar Passage Ratio Rank Bar Passage Ratio Score School Overall Rank 1 1.43 Stanford 3 2 1.33 USC 18 3 1.30 UCLA…
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Dueling Headlines
This week's ABA Journal: Profits Drop at 12 of 15 Top Firms Number of Students Applying to Law School Jumps 3.8 Percent
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U.S. News Comments on Law School Rankings
Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, blogs the recently released 2010 Law School Rankings in The Law School Rankings Debate Rages On: Our recently published 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools rankings have triggered a growing debate about how to rate grad schools and what factors should be used. It's not a surprise…
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2010 U.S. News Employed at Nine Months Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
Continuing my coverage of the Placement Success component of the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which counts 20% in the U.S. News methodology: the chart below compares the Employed at Nine Months data (14%) with the school’s overall ranking: Employed at 9 Months Rank Employed at 9 Months Score School Overall Rank 1 100.0% Stanford 3 1 100.0%…
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Disbarment Sought for Lawyer Who Altered Law School Grades
Following up on last week's post, Chicago Grad Faces 3-Year Suspension For Altering Grades on Law School Transcript: the Chief Counsel of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has called for Mr. Friedman's permanent disbarment. ABA Journal American Lawyer Chicago Tribune
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2010 U.S. News Employed at Graduation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
Continuing my coverage of the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings: I turn next to the Placement Success component, which counts 20% in the U.S. News methodology. The chart below compares the Employed at Graduation data (4%) with the school's overall ranking. 64 law schools did not supply U.S. News with this data. Employed at Grad. Rank Employed at…
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2010 U.S. News Quality Assessment Rankings
I previously blogged the two quality assessment components in the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Academic Peer Assessment, based on reputation surveys sent to the dean and three faculty members at each school, which counts 25% in the U.S. News methodology. Lawyer/Judge Assessment, based on reputation surveys sent to various lawyers and judges, which counts 15% in…
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NYLJ: Law Schools — A Special Report
This week's New York Law Journal has published a special section, Law Schools — A Special Report, with these articles: Rules of Engagement: Tactical Survival Tips for Third-Year Law Students The Rankings, Deconstructed and Examined What Law Firms Want in New Recruits Students, Manage Your Careers
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Pete Wentz on the U.S. News Law School Rankings
Law School Consultant Pete Wentz (APCO Worldwide) (and father of Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz) offers his thoughts on the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings: There are always a number of complaints that the information supplied to U.S. News is not “verifiable.” However, much of the information that is used for the U.S. News rankings comes…
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NY Times: The End of the University As We Know It
New York Times op-ed: End the University as We Know It, by Mark C. Taylor: Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand…
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Florida’s Dean Alleges Errors in U.S. News Data
Last week, I blogged the report from U.S. News that it is looking into allegations "that a few school might have submitted incorrect data to U.S. News," as well as reports that Brooklyn and Nebraska may be two of those schools. Florida now can be added to the list. Florida's Dean sent an email to…
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Gans Wins Teaching Award at Hofstra
Mitchell Gans has been voted one of the 2008-2009 Teachers of the Year by Hofstra University students. From the press release: Mitchell Gans, JD, is the Steven A. Horowitz Distinguished Professor of Tax Law at Hofstra. Before joining the law school faculty, he had been an associate in the Tax and Trust and Estates Departments…
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2010 U.S News Lawyer/Judge Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
Last week, I blogged the academic peer reputation component of the 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings, along with each school's overall ranking. Here is the lawyer/judge reputation component (which counts for 15% in the U.S. News methodology), along with each school's overall ranking: Lawyer/Judge Rank Lawyer/Judge Score School Overall Rank 1 4.8 Yale 1 1 4.8…
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Griffith Wins Teaching Award at USC
Thomas Griffith, John B. Milliken Professor of Taxation at USC has been awarded the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award. (Prof. Griffith is pictured holding the award next to Mr. Rutter.) From the USC press release: "He's been the prime mover in our academic support program. In his criminal law class, he teaches an extra…
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Judge Denies Law Profs’ Injunction Against West, But Signals They May Succeed on Merits of Claim That West Put Their Names on “Sham” Supplement
Earlier this month, I blogged Two Law Profs Sue West for Putting Their Names on a "Sham" Supplement to Their Treatise: David Rudovsky (Penn) and Leonard N. Sosnov (Widener) are suing West, claiming that they were falsely identified as the authors of a poorly researched “sham” supplement to their treatise, Pennsylvania Practice: Criminal Procedure Law, Commentary and Forms. The…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: Emmanuel Saez Awarded John Bates Clark Medal UC-Hastings Hosts Northern California Tax Roundtable Understanding Twitter Laity: The Competence of Nations and International Tax Law Section 162(m), Executive Compensation, and Rev. Rul. 2008-13 Sunday: Alleged Tax and Financial Improprieties at Harvard Endowment Which Companies Pay the Most (and Least) U.S. Taxes? Top 5 Tax Paper…