Category: General

US News Gives “Helpful” Tips

General, Legal Aspects

US News, the folks that aided and abetted law schools for years, is now giving advice to law students about their “investment” in a legal education.

The image that came to my mind when I read this was of a guy holding down a woman while she was raped, and then giving her advice after she was violated on how not to get raped again.

Not only do they quote Law School Transparency, they try to back off from the false statistics they have been printing:

While U.S. News offers some school-reported employment data that can serve as a foundation, the newest data, which is most pertinent to an individual’s needs, is accessible only by requesting it from the schools themselves.

Sounds like US News is worried they might be held accountable for helping so many innocent students down the path of financial ruin. Too little, too late. And all in the interest of protecting themselves, not the students.

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Deans Told To Stop Lying

General

After years of helping law schools perpetuate a fraud, U.S. News has asked law school deans to stop lying when reporting data.

They’ve known all along that the deans have been lying. The only reason they are doing something this year is because Villanova’s dean came out earlier this year and admitted that they “fudge numbers.”

U.S. News had this to say:
I think we can all agree that it is not in anyone’s interest—especially that of prospective students—to have less than accurate data being put out by law schools. It’s creating a crisis of confidence in the law school sector that is unnecessary and we think could be easily fixed. The entire law school sector is perceived to be less than candid because it does not pursue a similar, disciplined approach to data collection and reporting.

Perceived to be “less than candid”? No, the law schools are perceived to be liars. And US News aided and abetted these liars for years. Maybe U.S. News should help out with refunds to all the students who believed the false statistics they printed without bothering to check facts.

It’s bad enough that the law schools and US News were allowed to commit fraud and get away with it. But could you all stop your fucking lying and not accepting blame? The schools lied, US News printed the lies. You’re both guilty of helping to commit a fraud that ruined thousands of lives. Soyou, and your lies too.

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Computers Replace Lawyers

General, Law School

A reader sent this article in. It’s interesting but really depressing, at least for the folks in India who took all the document review jobs. Seems computers can now do much of the document review work, and in ten years or so, they’ll be much better at it than humans. I think this is a great argument to close at least half of all the law schools. There simply won’t be enough work to go around, even if you’re willing to move to India.

Document review jobs are gone:

He estimated that the shift from manual document discovery to e-discovery would lead to a manpower reduction in which one lawyer would suffice for work that once required 500 and that the newest generation of software, which can detect duplicates and find clusters of important documents on a particular topic, could cut the head count by another 50 percent.

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