by Bruce | March 7, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Profiles of Individuals
Dogs bark. Birds sing. Snakes bite. Lawyers sue. Or is there more to it than that? I’m referring to the series of class action lawsuits being brought against law schools claiming they systematically misled students/applicants about such presumably material...
by Bruce | February 25, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
The National Law Journal has published a first look at where law students graduating in the Class of 2011 began work, focusing on those who went directly to an NLJ 250 firm. Keep in mind that this consciously omits two other potentially desirable job categories,...
by Bruce | October 11, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Here are two things we know: First, the rise of the Legal Process Outsourcers–and other nontraditional ways of accomplishing legal work–has not only arrived for keeps, but is accelerating. Consider that all of the conceivable possibilities for...
by Bruce | August 27, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Law Schools
If you’re going to criticize a behavior pattern as economically irrational–but it continues in the face of seemingly incontrovertible evidence that it’s self-defeating, even borderline delusional–you need to come up with a theory to explain why...
by Bruce | August 19, 2011 | Articles, Law Schools
Larry Ribstein (who I consider a friend, and it’s mutual) has written “A response to LawProf and MacEwen” and LawProf has in turn written “Markets and failure: A response to Larry Ribstein.” This pretty much makes it incumbent...
by Bruce | August 18, 2011 | Articles, Law Schools
If you haven’t heard of Inside the Law School Scam, you’re in for a surprise. The site is written by a “tenured mid-career faculty member at a Tier One school,” and apparently there’s actually reason to believe he’s who he says...
