law school rankings

After placing NYU Law on the kill list a couple of weeks ago, we got down to some serious work. As in, what school in Florida should we take out? The eleven Florida law schools we know about (excluding online schools—so far) include:

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Some seemingly random numbers related to U.S. law schools.

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It’s like soldiers at the beginning of “Saving Private Ryan” suing the generals for misleading them about their prospects when they got off the boats.

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Urban Dictionary defines a third-tier toilet (TTT) as a “pejorative term for law schools that are not prestigious.” The definition goes on to explain that any school that fails to rank in the Top 14 is not prestigious. Which, by that definition, means that Harvard is not a TTT, but Vanderbilt is. As a result, [...]

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The legal blogosphere is buzzing about the front-page story in today’s Wall Street Journal that U.S. News & World Report is “seriously” considering reworking its famous law school ranking system to crack down on top law schools’ infamous practice of “gaming” the rankings. As the WSJ Law Blog reports, “it’s no secret that top law [...]