Milestone: More Women Than Men in Law School
A milestone has been achieved – there are more women than men in law school for the first time: “For the first time ever, women make up a slight majority of students enrolled at American…
Law Schools
Educating Lawyers Has Become Too Complicated for Lawyers
Educating lawyers – the struggle is real: “There was a time, pre-industrialization, when practicing law really was about the law. Pleading had to be in precise form and law itself was concentrated in a few…
New survey of the ideological views of lawyers
According to a recent survey on the ideological views of lawyers, the legal profession leans left: “Paul Caron at TaxProf summarizes (with table) a landmark survey of ‘The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers’ by Adam…
Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?
Will the bar passage results this year help clear things up? “Last August, the tens of thousands of answer sheets from the bar exam started to stream into the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The…
Harvard Law Grads Ditch Law Practice Like Everyone Else
Even grads of elite law schools ditch the law for other pursuits: “Harvard law grads have the advantage of a JD from an elite institution, but they don’t differ from other law grads when it…
2010 Law Grad Had $328K in Student Debt
More reporting from the ABA and New York Times on the Class of 2010. This student worked three jobs and now has a solo criminal defense practice: “The numbers were bad for law grad Hyatt Shirkey….
25% of Ohio’s 2010 bar admittees aren’t practicing law
One can only wonder what the results would be if professors in each jurisdiction tallied their own stats: “A law professor who used a bar directory and online resources to track down more than 1,100…
Whither the Bar Exam?
While the debate continues about “less able” law students, perhaps it is time for a holistic review of legal education and preparing students for the actual practice of law. With some States looking to make the bar exam…
Brain Drain in the Legal Profession?
Yes, apparently brain drain can affect law-minded folk even before they start practicing: “According to the results of the latest bar exam, it is. The National Conference of Bar Examiners announced that scores from the July 2014 multistate…
The Graying of the Legal Profession
In the words of Indiana Jones, “it’s not the years, it’s the mileage”: “The legal profession is aging as the percentage of younger lawyers continues to shrink in a decades-long trend…The most likely explanation, Henderson says,…