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Walking Alternate Paths

by John on January 18, 2010

in Law School

The Whipping Boy of every law school is career services. There aren’t many law students who were thrilled or completely satisfied by their career services office. That’s because career services tends to do a very odd job: to ensure that the best qualified applicants at a law school are employed.
Point/CounterpointAaron Street points this out at [...]

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Fewer Students Is Good, Fewer Schools Is Better

by John on October 26, 2009

in Law School

Supply and demand is a simple enough concept that even lawyers and law professors—sometimes not well-versed in economics—can figure it out. If people want less of something, then the amount that should be supplied and the price should go down.
But it seems that hasn’t happened with law school. Rick Bales, a professor at Northern Kentucky [...]

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Things aren’t as bad as they seem [31DBBB - Day 7]

by John on April 12, 2009

in Law School

Sua Sponte has some very unscientific but [very promising numbers](http://suasponteblog.com/2009/04/06/job-poll-results-at-your-service/) on job placement. Of the 102 respondents to their informal survey, a total of 83 respondents had jobs. That works out to around 80 percent, although as you’d expect many more 2Ls than 1Ls had jobs (not to mention many more 2Ls than 3Ls responded).
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