Will law firms get as fired up about being ranked by U.S. News as law schools do? Our guess is yes – and journalists everywhere are already salivating at the prospect:
Last summer, we reacted with elation when we learned that U.S. News & World Report would soon be ranking the law firms. It seems to us that it’s going to be one huge nightmare for the firms themselves — especially those poor marketing folks who will invariably be besieged with calls from clueless partners demanding to know why their firms weren’t ranked higher.
But for us journo types, such rankings are manna from heaven.
In any event, the intrigue over the rankings is building. The ABA on Monday announced that it was going to take a good hard look at the magazine’s methods. According to this story in the National Law Journal, the resolution was prompted by U.S. News’s plan, but that the inquiry will look at a range of lawyer and law-firm rankings.
[via U.S. News Will Rank Firms; But Not Before the ABA Asks Questions - Law Blog - WSJ.]
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