So You Want to Go to Law School, a viral video classic on the foibles of legal education and its relationship vel non to the practice of law, has become a full-blown series. David W. Kazzie, the author of the original video, will trace the adventures of Carrie-Ann Fox, an idealistic would-be lawyer, as she makes her way through law school. The first post-pilot installment introduces Will Graham, battle-hardened 2L, as Carrie-Ann's new friend with a sense of humor and shockingly deep insights into Lost and Grey's Anatomy:
‘One Night with You’ having trouble launched because Lindsay Lohan
Producer Richard Sullivan has a tough time launching a project called ‘One Night with You’ with Lindsay Lohan because can’t get Lindsay insured.
He tells Radar Online:
“It’s amazing,” says O’Sullivan. “Lindsay hasn’t shot anyone. Charlie Sheen actually has. He SHOT Kelly Preston.” (Sheen and Preston were engaged at the time and the 1990 incident was ruled an accident.)
“Lindsay hasn’t been keeping entire prostitution rings in business. Charlie has. Lindsay hasn’t destroyed personal property like Charlie has. Still, Lindsay’s a pariah and yet when Charlie does it, it’s just ‘boys being boys’.”
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PETA offered $20,000 to Lindsay Lohan if she turns vegetarian
Lindsay Lohan is having financial problem and has problem paying her bill for her rehab at Betty Ford Center. Animal rights group PETA has come forward and offered her $20,000 if she adopts a vegan diet.
According to E! reports, PETA head Michelle Cho told Lindsay, "As you know, a crucial part of any recovery is showing charity to others. One way to do this is to be kind to animals, the Earth, and your own body. You'll never regret it."
PETA will pay her $10,000 if she sticks to vegan diet during her stay at Betty Ford and will pay the balance if she continues her vegan diet for a year after she is out of rehab.
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Porn website offered job for Lindsay Lohan
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Three Kinds of Diversity
Diversity comes in many flavors. I here compare three types—diversity of skin color and sex, cultural diversity, and ideological diversity—and offer some observations about the distinctive costs and benefits of each. I conclude that, holding all else equal, a group of people having diverse colors and sexes will enjoy modest institutional gains at low cost, while a group touting ideological diversity runs the risk of high transaction costs but wins a shot at great intellectual gains. Groups with high cultural diversity fall in between those two extremes.
Diversity of skin color and sex appears on the face of a group, thus offering ready proof that its selection, such as through hiring and promotion, was not tainted with invidious discrimination. Holding all else equal—assuming, specifically, that the racially and sexually diverse group does not possess above-average cultural and ideological diversity—the costs of intra-group transactions remain low. Thus, for instance, might a facially diverse group of culturally and ideologically similar people get along very smoothly. Think, here, of an elite law school where every professor has absorbed Ivy League norms and all lean moderately left. They might bicker, of course; law professors specialize in that. But such a culturally and ideologically uniform group is not likely to host nasty public fights about ballot initiatives or the like.
Are there downsides to pursuing diversity of skin color and sex in hiring and promotion? Not if you can find enough well-qualified candidates, and not if you avoid discriminating against candidates for blameless having an uninteresting color or sex. Happily, it is not too hard to satisfy both conditions, these days.
Cultural diversity proves harder to document, and runs some risk of increasing intra-group transaction costs. Someone brought up solely within the confines of respectable East Coast institutions will have to work a bit to understand a peer raised Mormon, in Utah's backcountry. So, too, might differences of sexual orientation (which like cultural differences generally do not appear on a person's face) sometimes lead to innocent misunderstandings. Holding equal for other sorts of diversity, however, cultural differences offer many charms and few serious costs. Most of us, and especially those of us in academia, enjoy meeting friendly people with exotic backgrounds. When we share ideologies, moreover, meeting fellow travelers who differ from us suggests that our most heartfelt values transcend race, sex, and culture—a comforting, if somewhat smug, idea.
Ideological diversity, standing alone, proves at least as hard to document as cultural diversity—it does not appear on a person's face nor even, typically, in a person's dress or hairstyle—and much more likely to raise intra-group transaction costs. Religious differences prove largely intractable, though in polite society we tend to keep them private. Political differences, at least in American institutions, threaten to burst out into loud and public disagreements, however. Such frank exchanges can help each side to hone its arguments, of course, and thus offers the prospect of considerable gains both to the disputants and the group that harbors them both. But if local norms do not temper the tone and proper boundaries of ideological debate, transactions costs can easily soar, making it hard for a group to manage even run-of-the-mill functions efficiently.
In sum: diversity of skin color and sex offers few costs and modest benefits; cultural diversity creates slightly higher transaction costs but compensates with intriguing charms; and ideological diversity presents a high risk/high return strategy for institutions devoted to generating new and useful ideas.
[Crossposted at Agoraphilia, and MoneyLaw.]
Diversity of skin color and sex appears on the face of a group, thus offering ready proof that its selection, such as through hiring and promotion, was not tainted with invidious discrimination. Holding all else equal—assuming, specifically, that the racially and sexually diverse group does not possess above-average cultural and ideological diversity—the costs of intra-group transactions remain low. Thus, for instance, might a facially diverse group of culturally and ideologically similar people get along very smoothly. Think, here, of an elite law school where every professor has absorbed Ivy League norms and all lean moderately left. They might bicker, of course; law professors specialize in that. But such a culturally and ideologically uniform group is not likely to host nasty public fights about ballot initiatives or the like.
Are there downsides to pursuing diversity of skin color and sex in hiring and promotion? Not if you can find enough well-qualified candidates, and not if you avoid discriminating against candidates for blameless having an uninteresting color or sex. Happily, it is not too hard to satisfy both conditions, these days.
Cultural diversity proves harder to document, and runs some risk of increasing intra-group transaction costs. Someone brought up solely within the confines of respectable East Coast institutions will have to work a bit to understand a peer raised Mormon, in Utah's backcountry. So, too, might differences of sexual orientation (which like cultural differences generally do not appear on a person's face) sometimes lead to innocent misunderstandings. Holding equal for other sorts of diversity, however, cultural differences offer many charms and few serious costs. Most of us, and especially those of us in academia, enjoy meeting friendly people with exotic backgrounds. When we share ideologies, moreover, meeting fellow travelers who differ from us suggests that our most heartfelt values transcend race, sex, and culture—a comforting, if somewhat smug, idea.
Ideological diversity, standing alone, proves at least as hard to document as cultural diversity—it does not appear on a person's face nor even, typically, in a person's dress or hairstyle—and much more likely to raise intra-group transaction costs. Religious differences prove largely intractable, though in polite society we tend to keep them private. Political differences, at least in American institutions, threaten to burst out into loud and public disagreements, however. Such frank exchanges can help each side to hone its arguments, of course, and thus offers the prospect of considerable gains both to the disputants and the group that harbors them both. But if local norms do not temper the tone and proper boundaries of ideological debate, transactions costs can easily soar, making it hard for a group to manage even run-of-the-mill functions efficiently.
In sum: diversity of skin color and sex offers few costs and modest benefits; cultural diversity creates slightly higher transaction costs but compensates with intriguing charms; and ideological diversity presents a high risk/high return strategy for institutions devoted to generating new and useful ideas.
[Crossposted at Agoraphilia, and MoneyLaw.]
Outsourcing Legal Education?
The other day a pile of new course proposals by adjunct and non tenure track employees was delivered to the members of the curriculum committee. It made me wonder: How much of our curriculum is taught by people who did not go through a search process, have no role in faculty governance, or were not hired to be teachers. The number was high and growing. I doubt that makes us different from any other law school.
The one thing that all of these teachers have in common is that they are less expensive to use than tenure track professors. Also, I think it is generally true that they regard being able to say they are "professors" is a big deal to them.
I am not saying this is exploitation since these folks have choices but there a few things that seem amiss. (I do think the adjunct route is better for schools in highly populated areas were the choices are better, being able to say you are a "professor" is less important and the main qualification is not knowing someone on the faculty. )
First, what kind of rational hiring process spends tens of thousands of dollars in search expenses for professors on the one hand and conducts no search for those who will teach even more. I am not saying one is better but it's not a case in which the mix makes everything better.
Second, if the idea of a search is to ensure diversity and fair opportunities, why, if you take one position that involves teaching 3 courses and divide it in thirds, does the need for or desirability for a search disappear?
Third, part time teachers are cheap and seem desperate for the opportunity. Many have no say in governance and little contact with the school other than fitting in after work. Does this mean that power gravitates to the administration. More importantly, is that really a bad thing?
Distance learning, on line courses and degrees, externships, and part time teachers all involve outsourcing of a sort. The problem (or rather, the explanation) is not that it is driven by money grubbing management that hopes to make shareholders happy by cost cutting. In this case of outsourcing, no one gets richer.
I am not sure where this goes or even if I think it is wrong. I do not like it but that is a different matter. Most of this is cross-posted on classbias.
The one thing that all of these teachers have in common is that they are less expensive to use than tenure track professors. Also, I think it is generally true that they regard being able to say they are "professors" is a big deal to them.
I am not saying this is exploitation since these folks have choices but there a few things that seem amiss. (I do think the adjunct route is better for schools in highly populated areas were the choices are better, being able to say you are a "professor" is less important and the main qualification is not knowing someone on the faculty. )
First, what kind of rational hiring process spends tens of thousands of dollars in search expenses for professors on the one hand and conducts no search for those who will teach even more. I am not saying one is better but it's not a case in which the mix makes everything better.
Second, if the idea of a search is to ensure diversity and fair opportunities, why, if you take one position that involves teaching 3 courses and divide it in thirds, does the need for or desirability for a search disappear?
Third, part time teachers are cheap and seem desperate for the opportunity. Many have no say in governance and little contact with the school other than fitting in after work. Does this mean that power gravitates to the administration. More importantly, is that really a bad thing?
Distance learning, on line courses and degrees, externships, and part time teachers all involve outsourcing of a sort. The problem (or rather, the explanation) is not that it is driven by money grubbing management that hopes to make shareholders happy by cost cutting. In this case of outsourcing, no one gets richer.
I am not sure where this goes or even if I think it is wrong. I do not like it but that is a different matter. Most of this is cross-posted on classbias.
Lindsay Lohan not pleased with washing toilet
Lindsay Lohan was asked to do chores in Betty Ford centre such as cleaning the toilet but she does not look pleased with it.
One source told Britain’s Now Magazine, "She was asking if she was supposed to use a sponge to clean the toilet. And when someone handed her the toilet bowl brush, she had absolutely no idea what it was or what to do with it.”
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Lindsay Lohan may allow her dad to visit her in rehab
Lindsay Lohan is in rehab now, at the Betty Ford Center and she may let her dad to visit her according to sources.
Previously he was rejected to visit her.
She also don't like her dad to have relationship with Kate Major.
A friend of her tells X17online:
"Lindsay absolutely hates Kate. She's never liked her and thinks she's just with her dad to get a story. Until he gets rid of her, it's going to be hard for Lindsay to accept him back in her life."
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Lindsay Lohan's father Michael was assaulted
The night before Lindsay Lohan needed to attend Beverly Hills courtroom, her estranged father, Michael Lohan, was assaulted in Santa Monica according to authorities.
According to police, he was getting into his car, then a man approached him and there was a fight. Then the attacker fell down and then he ran off after that.
No arrest done yet.
I wonder why that person attack him?
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According to police, he was getting into his car, then a man approached him and there was a fight. Then the attacker fell down and then he ran off after that.
No arrest done yet.
I wonder why that person attack him?
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Lindsay Lohan's career can be destroyed of continue rehab
Lindsay Lohan will need to go to rehab, alternative to going to jail. Lindsay Lohan thinks that this will destroy her career.
On today's hearing, documents are recorded as , "The defendant says her clothing line is falling apart because she is not available to monitor the product."
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Lindsay Lohan will need to spend her holidays in rehab
Lindsay Lohan is spared from going back to jail but she has to spend her holidays until Jan 3 in rehab instead
According to TMZ, she is expected back in court on Feb. 25.
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Encouragement For The Less Than Highly Motivated
I'm not as big a fan as Jim of animations, but feel that it's time that some concern be shown for those who might struggle to stare down the cynics.
Remember, not everybody raises their hand in class.
Lindsay Lohan's father swear not to talk about family in public
Lindsay Lohan's father Michael released statement, saying that he won't be talking about his family in public anymore. He said:
"I want to make a public statement that I will not be commenting on ANYTHING relating to my daughter Lindsay, or ANYTHING my ex-wife Dina, or any 'sources' related to her, might say."
"NO MATTER what accusations, lies or conjecture are disseminated to the public about me, for the sake of the ones I love and with hope of creating peace, I WILL NOT respond, in ANY way, to what is said or done, to me.
Is this confirmed? Since he so used to talking about it in public. Old habit dies hard.
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"I want to make a public statement that I will not be commenting on ANYTHING relating to my daughter Lindsay, or ANYTHING my ex-wife Dina, or any 'sources' related to her, might say."
"NO MATTER what accusations, lies or conjecture are disseminated to the public about me, for the sake of the ones I love and with hope of creating peace, I WILL NOT respond, in ANY way, to what is said or done, to me.
Is this confirmed? Since he so used to talking about it in public. Old habit dies hard.
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Christina Aguilera turns to Lindsay's ex Samantha Ronson for support
Christina Aguilera and her husband are no more together. They are divorcing.
According to RadarOnline.com, Christina is seeking emotional support from her
gal pal Samantha Ronson.
One source told RadarOnline.com, "They've known each other forever and they're good friends."
"Samantha was in Mexico with Christina for Nicole's [Richie] bachelorette party."
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So you want to go to law school?
So you want to go to law school? Watch:
Congratulations to Wahoo Corner, the apparent origin of a video that is sure to become a viral classic for prelaw advisors, law students, lawyers, and even full-time legal academics. Hat tip to Donald Anton, Eric Fink, and Shubha Ghosh via Facebook.
Congratulations to Wahoo Corner, the apparent origin of a video that is sure to become a viral classic for prelaw advisors, law students, lawyers, and even full-time legal academics. Hat tip to Donald Anton, Eric Fink, and Shubha Ghosh via Facebook.
Lindsay Lohan's mother denied post rehab interview
Previously there were rumors saying that Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina were shopping
for interviews about her daughter to get 5 figure.
But Dina denied these rumors and said it was "absolutely not true," and calling the rumor a "total lie".
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for interviews about her daughter to get 5 figure.
But Dina denied these rumors and said it was "absolutely not true," and calling the rumor a "total lie".
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Lindsay Lohan wa asked not have her mom to handle her careers
Lindsay Lohan wa asked not have her mom to handle her careers if she wants to remain sober according to RadarOnline.
One source said, “Dina needs to no longer act as her manager, or work for her daughter in any capacity."
“Lindsay needs Dina to simply be her mother.
“Lindsay’s treatment team at Betty Ford has emphasized this to Lindsay, very, very strongly.
“Lindsay feels the financial burden of taking care of her entire family.
“It’s enormous pressure for any person in their twenties, let alone someone that is battling with addiction.
“Lindsay and Dina don’t have a normal mother-and-daughter dynamic because of the length of time that Dina has worked for Lindsay.
“Lindsay is strong enough to tell Dina that she doesn’t want her to work for her anymore.
“It’s partly because it has been the norm for so long and Lindsay doesn’t know what her career would look like without her mom’s involvement.
“Lindsay wants to get back to work, with the view, the sooner the better.
“However, her treatment team is asking that she commit to at least another 45 days of treatment.
“Lindsay has done several 30 day rehab stints and almost every time, she has relapsed.
“We really believe that the longer she stays at Betty Ford, the better for her odds of success.”
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Dina Lohan looking for post rehab interviews
Dina Lohan is crazy of money. No wonder their family full with wreak. According to TMZ, she is looking for interview after she visits her daughter Lindsay this weekend and wants to get 5 figure amount from this.
For heaven sake, her daughter is in rehab and the only thing she can think is to get benefit from it and lots of money?
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Michael Lohan may purposely get drunk to get near his daughter Lindsay
This may sound silly but Lindsay Lohan's estranged father want to purposely get drunk to go near to her. This is because he is forbidden to see her in Betty Form rehab. So, he thought of this idea to get admission into this clinic.
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Where Partners Come From: Finding the Brass Ring
The ABA has become increasingly interested in outcome measures. US News uses relative bar pass rates and questionable at-grad and 9-month employment rates. Bill Henderson has looked at per capita NLJ first-year-associate hiring rates.
This post reports preliminary results of a study examining what many law students view as the ultimate outcome measure: partnership in a big firm. Specifically, it attempts to gauge how successful graduates of each US law school have been at obtaining big-firm partnership status over the past 25 years. The study is limited to current partners (October 2010) in US offices of the NLJ 250.
My research assistants have almost completed the task of collecting the relevant information for all 250 firms from Martindale-Hubbell on-line. I have personally quality-checked the spreadsheets for the five largest law firms in the United States, which collectively employ 13,942 US lawyers – 11% of all US lawyers employed by the NLJ 250. This post reports the results for those five firms. The five firms studied (with their two largest US offices, measured by number of partners) are:
Baker & McKenzie (Chicago, New York)
DLA Piper (Chicago, New York)
Jones Day (New York, Washington)
White & Case (New York, Washington)
Skadden Arps (New York, Washington)
Here follow the complete results, by rank and number of partners in those five firms nation-wide who obtained their JD degree within the past 25 years (I apologize for the awkward formatting):
1 Harvard 69
2 Georgetown 61
3 NYU 55
4 Columbia 52
5 Michigan 47
6 Northwestern 44
7 Chicago 42
8 Virginia 41
9 Texas 35
10 Fordham 34
11 UC Berkeley 29
12 UC Hastings 27
13 Duke 25
13 Ohio State 25
13 Pennsylvania 25
16 Notre Dame 23
17 Cornell 21
18 Boston U 20
18 George Wash 20
20 UCLA 19
21 Maryland 18
22 San Diego 16
23 American 15
23 Loyola Chicago 15
23 Loyola LA 15
23 Yale 15
27 Case Western 14
27 SMU 14
27 Stanford 14
30 St. John's 13
31 Chicago-Kent 11
31 San Francisco 11
31 Tulane 11
34 Emory 10
34 Houston 10
34 Illinois 10
34 USC 10
38 Boston College 9
38 Brooklyn 9
38 Georgia 9
38 Minnesota 9
38 Pittsburgh 9
38 Wisconsin 9
44 Cardozo 8
44 Cleveland State 8
44 DePaul 8
44 Indiana 8
44 Miami 8
44 Vanderbilt 8
44 Washington U 8
44 William & Mary 8
52 Catholic 7
52 John Marshall 7
54 UC Davis 6
55 Baylor 5
55 Duquesne 5
55 Pepperdine 5
55 Rutgers 5
59 Albany 4
59 George Mason 4
59 Hofstra 4
59 McGeorge 4
59 New York LS 4
59 SUNY Buffalo 4
59 Syracuse 4
59 Temple 4
59 Texas Tech 4
59 Tulsa 4
59 Washington 4
59 Washington & Lee 4
71 Akron 3
71 Baltimore 3
71 Brigham Young 3
71 Cal. Western 3
71 Drake 3
71 Florida 3
71 Franklin Pierce 3
71 Golden Gate 3
71 Mercer 3
71 Northeastern 3
71 Oregon 3
71 Santa Clara 3
71 South Texas 3
71 Villanova 3
71 Widener 3
86 Alabama 2
86 Arizona 2
86 Capital 2
86 Cincinnati 2
86 Colorado 2
86 Connecticut 2
86 Creighton 2
86 Dayton 2
86 Florida State 2
86 Iowa 2
86 Kansas 2
86 Louisville 2
86 Marquette 2
86 North Carolina 2
86 Ohio Northern 2
86 Pace 2
86 Seton Hall 2
86 Southwestern 2
86 Toledo 2
86 Washburn 2
86 Wayne State 2
107 Arizona State 1
107 Arkansas 1
107 Campbell 1
107 Denver 1
107 Detroit-Mercy 1
107 Howard 1
107 Louisiana State 1
107 Memphis 1
107 Missouri 1
107 New England 1
107 Oklahoma 1
107 Oklahoma City 1
107 Penn State 1
107 Southern Ill. 1
107 St. Louis 1
107 St. Thomas 1
107 Stetson 1
107 Suffolk 1
107 Tennessee 1
107 Thomas M. Cooley 1
107 Valparaiso 1
107 Vermont 1
107 Wake Forest 1
107 Western NE 1
107 Western State 1
Focusing on the top 50 law schools (by top-5-firm partners), 21 law schools outperform their 2010 US News ranking by 10 or more (e.g., San Francisco is ranked 67 places higher on this scale than in the 2010 US News rankings):
San Francisco 67
Loyola Chicago 64
St. John's 57
Loyola Los Angeles 48
Chicago-Kent 46
DePaul 43
San Diego 39
Pittsburgh 33
Case Western 28
UC Hastings 27
Miami 27
Houston 25
Brooklyn 23
Ohio State 22
Maryland 22
American 22
SMU 22
Fordham 20
Tulane 14
Georgetown 12
George Washington 10
Note: Cleveland State is ranked 44th on this measure, although third tier in US News, and therefore clearly belongs on the list of overperforming schools. Indiana is not evaluated for under- or overperformance, because Indiana graduates do not typically list the campus, and the two campuses are ranked differently by US News.
Further work
My next step is going to be to extend the analysis to the full NLJ 250. The fact that the five firms analyzed employ 11% of all lawyers employed nationwide by the NLJ 250 suggests that the results reported here are likely to be somewhat representative, but this needs to be confirmed. In particular, I expect that Harvard is a more likely recruiting target for firms further down the NLJ 250 list than its competitors. (In Los Angeles, for example, Harvard graduates are heavily represented among big-firm partners; Chicago graduates are not.)
I have also collected city-by-city data. Again, I expect it will show that few schools are actually national law schools – in the sense of producing significant numbers of big-firm partners in multiple cities. Here again, I expect Harvard to perform well.
Finally, I intend to compare the percentage that each school's graduates comprise of all entry-level hires with the percentage that that school's graduates comprise of the NLJ 250 partner population. In effect, I intend to compute a success/washout ratio for each school. My intuition is that firms hire very heavily at some schools because of the schools' prestige, notwithstanding the fact that few graduates of those schools ultimately become partners, and that the converse is true as well. This information may be useful to both students and hiring partners.
This post reports preliminary results of a study examining what many law students view as the ultimate outcome measure: partnership in a big firm. Specifically, it attempts to gauge how successful graduates of each US law school have been at obtaining big-firm partnership status over the past 25 years. The study is limited to current partners (October 2010) in US offices of the NLJ 250.
My research assistants have almost completed the task of collecting the relevant information for all 250 firms from Martindale-Hubbell on-line. I have personally quality-checked the spreadsheets for the five largest law firms in the United States, which collectively employ 13,942 US lawyers – 11% of all US lawyers employed by the NLJ 250. This post reports the results for those five firms. The five firms studied (with their two largest US offices, measured by number of partners) are:
Baker & McKenzie (Chicago, New York)
DLA Piper (Chicago, New York)
Jones Day (New York, Washington)
White & Case (New York, Washington)
Skadden Arps (New York, Washington)
Here follow the complete results, by rank and number of partners in those five firms nation-wide who obtained their JD degree within the past 25 years (I apologize for the awkward formatting):
1 Harvard 69
2 Georgetown 61
3 NYU 55
4 Columbia 52
5 Michigan 47
6 Northwestern 44
7 Chicago 42
8 Virginia 41
9 Texas 35
10 Fordham 34
11 UC Berkeley 29
12 UC Hastings 27
13 Duke 25
13 Ohio State 25
13 Pennsylvania 25
16 Notre Dame 23
17 Cornell 21
18 Boston U 20
18 George Wash 20
20 UCLA 19
21 Maryland 18
22 San Diego 16
23 American 15
23 Loyola Chicago 15
23 Loyola LA 15
23 Yale 15
27 Case Western 14
27 SMU 14
27 Stanford 14
30 St. John's 13
31 Chicago-Kent 11
31 San Francisco 11
31 Tulane 11
34 Emory 10
34 Houston 10
34 Illinois 10
34 USC 10
38 Boston College 9
38 Brooklyn 9
38 Georgia 9
38 Minnesota 9
38 Pittsburgh 9
38 Wisconsin 9
44 Cardozo 8
44 Cleveland State 8
44 DePaul 8
44 Indiana 8
44 Miami 8
44 Vanderbilt 8
44 Washington U 8
44 William & Mary 8
52 Catholic 7
52 John Marshall 7
54 UC Davis 6
55 Baylor 5
55 Duquesne 5
55 Pepperdine 5
55 Rutgers 5
59 Albany 4
59 George Mason 4
59 Hofstra 4
59 McGeorge 4
59 New York LS 4
59 SUNY Buffalo 4
59 Syracuse 4
59 Temple 4
59 Texas Tech 4
59 Tulsa 4
59 Washington 4
59 Washington & Lee 4
71 Akron 3
71 Baltimore 3
71 Brigham Young 3
71 Cal. Western 3
71 Drake 3
71 Florida 3
71 Franklin Pierce 3
71 Golden Gate 3
71 Mercer 3
71 Northeastern 3
71 Oregon 3
71 Santa Clara 3
71 South Texas 3
71 Villanova 3
71 Widener 3
86 Alabama 2
86 Arizona 2
86 Capital 2
86 Cincinnati 2
86 Colorado 2
86 Connecticut 2
86 Creighton 2
86 Dayton 2
86 Florida State 2
86 Iowa 2
86 Kansas 2
86 Louisville 2
86 Marquette 2
86 North Carolina 2
86 Ohio Northern 2
86 Pace 2
86 Seton Hall 2
86 Southwestern 2
86 Toledo 2
86 Washburn 2
86 Wayne State 2
107 Arizona State 1
107 Arkansas 1
107 Campbell 1
107 Denver 1
107 Detroit-Mercy 1
107 Howard 1
107 Louisiana State 1
107 Memphis 1
107 Missouri 1
107 New England 1
107 Oklahoma 1
107 Oklahoma City 1
107 Penn State 1
107 Southern Ill. 1
107 St. Louis 1
107 St. Thomas 1
107 Stetson 1
107 Suffolk 1
107 Tennessee 1
107 Thomas M. Cooley 1
107 Valparaiso 1
107 Vermont 1
107 Wake Forest 1
107 Western NE 1
107 Western State 1
Focusing on the top 50 law schools (by top-5-firm partners), 21 law schools outperform their 2010 US News ranking by 10 or more (e.g., San Francisco is ranked 67 places higher on this scale than in the 2010 US News rankings):
San Francisco 67
Loyola Chicago 64
St. John's 57
Loyola Los Angeles 48
Chicago-Kent 46
DePaul 43
San Diego 39
Pittsburgh 33
Case Western 28
UC Hastings 27
Miami 27
Houston 25
Brooklyn 23
Ohio State 22
Maryland 22
American 22
SMU 22
Fordham 20
Tulane 14
Georgetown 12
George Washington 10
Note: Cleveland State is ranked 44th on this measure, although third tier in US News, and therefore clearly belongs on the list of overperforming schools. Indiana is not evaluated for under- or overperformance, because Indiana graduates do not typically list the campus, and the two campuses are ranked differently by US News.
Further work
My next step is going to be to extend the analysis to the full NLJ 250. The fact that the five firms analyzed employ 11% of all lawyers employed nationwide by the NLJ 250 suggests that the results reported here are likely to be somewhat representative, but this needs to be confirmed. In particular, I expect that Harvard is a more likely recruiting target for firms further down the NLJ 250 list than its competitors. (In Los Angeles, for example, Harvard graduates are heavily represented among big-firm partners; Chicago graduates are not.)
I have also collected city-by-city data. Again, I expect it will show that few schools are actually national law schools – in the sense of producing significant numbers of big-firm partners in multiple cities. Here again, I expect Harvard to perform well.
Finally, I intend to compare the percentage that each school's graduates comprise of all entry-level hires with the percentage that that school's graduates comprise of the NLJ 250 partner population. In effect, I intend to compute a success/washout ratio for each school. My intuition is that firms hire very heavily at some schools because of the schools' prestige, notwithstanding the fact that few graduates of those schools ultimately become partners, and that the converse is true as well. This information may be useful to both students and hiring partners.
Lindsay Lohan didn't escape rehab for Coca Cola
Lindsay Lohan's lawyer says a report from RadarOnline saying that Lindsay Lohan tried to get out from rehab for Coca-Cola is "absurd and untrue."
Attorney Shawn Chapman Holley talked to Lohan's counselors at the Betty Ford Clinic and there nobody mention about her attempt to escape from rehab.
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Lindsay Lohan's estranged father Michael turns down Celebrity Apprentice
Lindsay Lohan's estranged father Michael will not be in Celebrity Apprentice. The reason is because he's too busy.
He tells X17.com, "Although the meeting went well, I was too busy with other things to be on the show."
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He tells X17.com, "Although the meeting went well, I was too busy with other things to be on the show."
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Lindsay Lohan blames her estranged dad for her problems
Currently Lindsay Lohan is having her treatment in Betty Ford Clinic for her drug addiction and she blames her family for her problems.
She blames mostly on her dad where she witness he abused her and forced to move to LA at very young age with little supervision.
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Wilmer Valderram still loves Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan was Wilmer Valderrama's ex girlfriend and he till loves her.
He told Access Hollywood, "It's hard not to. Look, I loved her and still love her."
Then he added, "'You can only wish for the best and hope people find the light."
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Pat O'Brien ask Lindsay Lohan to get clean before she dies
In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, entertainment reporter and TV personality Pat O'Brien asked Lindsay Lohan to get clean before she dies!
He said, "Lindsay is a smart girl. She has to want to be sober. She'd better start taking this serious before it's too late."
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He said, "Lindsay is a smart girl. She has to want to be sober. She'd better start taking this serious before it's too late."
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Iggy Pop thinks Lindsay Lohan suitable to play him in biopic
Iggy Pop thinks that Lindsay Lohan will the suitable person play him in a biopic.
He tells the reasons, "She looks like me, and she's the only one with enough attitude too."
He added: "They could tape her boobs up or something. She's been in jail at the right age and everything, so I thought she could do it."
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Lindsay Lohan not allowed use Twitter
Lindsay Lohan enjoys writting in her Twitter but since now she is having her treatment in Betty Ford Center, she is not allowed to do soon. Twitter are forbidden there.
Even phone calls are restricted to family and close friends only.
One source said, "Before, she would repeatedly and compulsively e-mail her friends if she was ever in a situation where she felt lonely, and she would vent on Twitter."'
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Even phone calls are restricted to family and close friends only.
One source said, "Before, she would repeatedly and compulsively e-mail her friends if she was ever in a situation where she felt lonely, and she would vent on Twitter."'
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Michael Lohan blames Dina for Lindsay's problems
Lindsay Lohan is currently having her treatment in Betty Ford and her estranged father, Michael feels that only family therapy can heal her problems.
He said: "I keep stressing family therapy because all of the problems occurred as a result of my divorce with Dina. She needs to resolve this. While we were at Cirque Lodge and Lindsay and I had family therapy it was wonderful. They asked Dina to come and she wouldn't, I guess she has a problem just taking responsibility. I don't like saying that but it's cleansing to be able to say, 'I did this and I did that,' and be responsible."
He added: "For Dina to try to keep me out shows she's not interested in Lindsay getting better. She's not going to get better until she gets family therapy."'
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He said: "I keep stressing family therapy because all of the problems occurred as a result of my divorce with Dina. She needs to resolve this. While we were at Cirque Lodge and Lindsay and I had family therapy it was wonderful. They asked Dina to come and she wouldn't, I guess she has a problem just taking responsibility. I don't like saying that but it's cleansing to be able to say, 'I did this and I did that,' and be responsible."
He added: "For Dina to try to keep me out shows she's not interested in Lindsay getting better. She's not going to get better until she gets family therapy."'
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Lindsay Lohan's estranged father was rejected to visit her in rehab
Lindsay Lohan's estranged father, Michael went to Betty Ford Center where Lindsay is currently having her treatment there. But he was turned away by the security there because the visiting hours were over.
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Lindsay Lohan plans to sell photos of her in rehab
Lindsay Lohan has always think the ways to earn some money. She has gone from having her line of leggings, being a host, being a model and now eventhough she is in the rehab, she has think a way to earn extra money by selling photos of her in rehab.
A friend of hers said, "Lindsay hasn't worked in so long that the only way she makes money now is from selling photographs. She can make an easy $30,000 to $40,000 a pop for a few hours work. However pictures of her in rehab getting better could sell for as much as $100,000."
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A friend of hers said, "Lindsay hasn't worked in so long that the only way she makes money now is from selling photographs. She can make an easy $30,000 to $40,000 a pop for a few hours work. However pictures of her in rehab getting better could sell for as much as $100,000."
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Lindsay Lohan' s schedule in Betty Ford
Lindsay Lohan is currently having her treatment in Betty Ford. Below are the typical day's schedule:
* 7:00 am wakeup call
* 7:30 am breakfast
* 8:00 am meditation followed by chores
* 9:00 am group therapy
* 11:00 am individual therapy
* 12:00 pm lunch
* 1:00 pm grief group
* 3:00 pm exercise
* 4:00 pm meeting
* 6:00 pm dinner
* 10:00 pm lights out
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Tina Fey send her wishes to Lindsay Lohan
Tina Fey, who was Lindsay Lohan's co-stars in Mean Girls gives her wishes to her. According to PopEater, Tina hopes she is able to get well soon.
She said, “I think that’s good [that she's in rehab]. Let’s hope it all gets through to Lindsay eventually.
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Charlie Sheen gives his support to Lindsay Lohan
Charlie Sheen gives his support to Lindsay Lohan. He had some problem as her before, dealing with drug addiction.
He explains, "It's not easy to begin with but then you put it under the bright lights of this circus and it makes it that much more difficult. People just need to leave her alone and let her do her thing and at the end of the day she'll win."
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