U.S. News & World Report to Revamp Parts of Its Law-School Ranking

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U.S. News & World Report is revamping some elements of its law-school ranking, after deans at more than a dozen top law schools publicly challenged the value of the list

Yale Law School said late last year that it would no longer provide information to help U.S. News compile its list.U.S. News & World Report is revamping some elements of its law-school ranking, capitulating to pressure after deans at more than a dozen top law schools publicly challenged the value of the closely followed list.

In a letter sent Monday to deans of the 188 law schools it currently ranks, U.S. News said it would give less weight in its next release to reputational surveys completed by deans, faculty, lawyers and judges and won’t take into account per-student expenditures that favor the wealthiest schools. The new ranking also will count graduates with school-funded public-interest legal fellowships or who go on to additional graduate programs the same as they would other employed graduates.

 

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More lawyers are needed only because society has less honor and integrity.

I have watched these ratings over the years and since most of the GQP crazies seem to have been educated at Yale and Harvard Law I have to wonder what is being taught at these Ivy League institutions.

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