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6 May 2019, 1:00 pm
Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Visualizing Legal Employment Outcomes in California: This is the eighth and final in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2018. [read post]
7 May 2018, 10:00 am
Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Small Law Firm Jobs Shrink Dramatically and Big Law Hiring Picks Up For the Class of 2017: Last year, I noted that jobs in smaller firms and business and industry were disappearing for entry-level hires. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 3:00 am
Derek Muller (Pepperdine), How a Change in the Bar Exam Cut Score Could Alter California Legal Education: Virtually all the deans of law schools in California, of ABA-accredited and California-accredited schools, have come out in favor, at multiple stages, of lowering the cut score for the California bar exam. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 2:00 am
Following up on my previous post, ABA 509 Report Data: Non-LSAT (GRE) Applicants Up 20%: Derek Muller (Pepperdine), A Small But Rising Cohort of GRE Law School Admissions: In 2019, no-LSAT admissions rose from 168 to 384—more than doubling from the previous year, which more than doubled the year before.... [read post]
11 Jan 2020, 12:05 am
Following up on my recent posts: Law Schools With The Best Debt-to-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates Debt-To-Income Ratios Among The Top 14, 21 California, And 15 New York Law Schools Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Are Poor Debt-to-Income Ratios Among Law School Graduates a Sign of Institutional Challenges? [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 12:05 am
Following up on my previous post, Eighteen Law Schools Would Fail ABA's Proposed 75% Bar Passage Within 2 Years Accreditation Standard: Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law School Ruin Porn Hits USA Today: I actually laughed out loud when I started reading this “yearlong investigation” by four USA Today journalists on the... [read post]
4 May 2023, 4:00 am
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Derek Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), Which Law Schools Have the Best and Worst Debt-to-Income Ratios Among Recent Law School Graduates? [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 5:00 am
Following up on my previous post, ABA Releases Data On Law School Admissions: Derek Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), Law School 1L JD Enrollment Climbs to 9-Year High as Non-JD Enrollment Dips Slightly: For the last seven years, 1L JD enrollment has been between 37,000 and 38,500, remarkable consistency. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 5:00 am
Following up on my previous post, ABA Releases Data On Law School Admissions: Derek Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), After 50% Drop in 1L Academic Dismissals in 2020, Little Increase in 2L Academic Dismissals in 2021: Last year, I flagged the sharp decline in 1L academic dismissals in 2020. 1L academic... [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 1:00 am
Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Bar Exam Scores Rebound to Highest Point Since 2013: After last year's slight year-over-year improvement in bar exam scores, bar exam scores are up again. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 12:05 am
Derek Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), USNWR Should Considering Incorporating Academic Attrition Rates to Offset Perverse Incentives in New Methodology: Last year, 41 schools have 0 students who faced academic attrition. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 10:00 am
Derek Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), Modeling and Projecting USNWR Law School Rankings Under New Methodologies: First, the criteria. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 2:00 am
Following up on my previous post, Law Schools With The Best And Worst Debt-To-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates: Derek Muller (Iowa), Some Data on Law School-Specific Debt Load Disparities Between Men and Women: The ever-valuable LSSSE data recently noted that women tend to graduate from law school with higher debt... [read post]
6 Mar 2023, 12:20 am
News Rankings, And 'Splitters': Derek Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), Law Schools Say They're "Boycotting" the USNWR Rankings, But Their Admissions Practices Suggest Otherwise: Earlier, I pointed out that law schools “boycotting” the USNWR law school rankings really meant that they... [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 4:00 am
Derek Muller (Iowa), Law School First Year Academic Dismissals Drop More Than 50% After Spring Semester Without Grades: Back in March, I shared some reflections that were mostly against the idea of moving to pass-fail grading, identifying some value of grades in the spring, especially among first-year students, and some... [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 2:35 am
: Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Class of 2014 LSAT Scores Did Not Portend Sharp Drop in MBE Scores: [W]e see a fairly significant correlation between my extremely rough approximation of a projected... [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 3:00 am
Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Despite Stable Enrollment, Law Schools Continue to Shed Full-Time Faculty: Law schools dropped from 10,226 full-time faculty (this figure includes all full-time positions, regardless of faculty status) in 2017 to 9470 in 2019, a 7% decline in two years. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 4:00 am
Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Legal Employment Outcomes in California in 2013: The USNWR methodology gives "full weight" to "graduates who had a full-time job lasting at least a year where bar passage was required or a J.D. degree was an advantage. [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 11:43 am
Derek Muller continues to provide excellent coverage and commentary on the ongoing US News rankings story. [read post]
21 Mar 2022, 12:01 pm
Following up on Friday's post, Federal Appeals Judge Suggests Yale Law Protesters 'Should Be Disqualified for Potential Clerkships': Derek Muller (Iowa), Federal Judges Have Already Begun to Drift Away From Hiring Yale Law Clerks: The truth is, Yale Law has already seen falling clerkship placement numbers in recent years. [read post]
