Tag: law school

April 23, 2021

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Jim Leipold, the executive director of the National Association for Law Placement—an organization focused on career counseling and planning; recruitment and retention; and the professional development of law students, lawyers and its members. Ari Kaplan: […]

December 21, 2018

While quite a bit has changed about law school over the years, one thing certainly hasn’t: It’s difficult. Luckily for law students these days, there’s plenty of advice online that you can use to help figure out what’s going to […]

August 9, 2018

An AccessLex Institute-funded research paper has found that first-year law students are 3 percent less likely to get A’s or A-minuses in classes taught by someone of the opposite gender, and 10 percent less likely to earn A’s or A-minuses […]

June 26, 2018

Ranking the ‘best’ law schools depends on who you ask. For example, if you ask U.S. News & World Report, the top law schools are Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. That’s based on 12 “measures of quality,” including peer assessment, GPA, […]

June 1, 2018

Like so many things, becoming a diplomat is easier said than done. Well, that’s true for most people. If you were born a Kennedy, it might be that easy. For the rest of us, it’s sometimes a tricky political path. […]

April 26, 2018

Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School has come into compliance with an admissions standard that requires accredited schools to only admit candidates who appear capable of finishing law school and gaining admission to a state bar, according to […]

November 15, 2016

It’s no secret that law schools are struggling. Top students aren’t attending, new grads aren’t passing the bar, and pretty much no one is able to pay back their debt. But that crisis isn’t confined to the Florida Coastal School […]

June 15, 2016

Georgetown and George Washington University law schools are No. 1 and 2 for three years running—for accepting the most transfer students. Arizona State’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law was No. 3 on the list in 2014 and 2015. This […]