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Best Practices in Law Schools Survey is great; but what is clinical
So, Deborah Rhode’s Best Practices in Law Schools Survey just hit my school, probably yours too.  Brilliant concept, superb execution.  Very excited about the potential impact of delivering real, solid, accurate information to USNWR respondents...

A new market--USNWR reputation votes
Doug Berman posts an intriguing hypothetical over at the Law School Innovation Blog (here). He asks whether he should sell his USNWR vote on IP specialties (not his primary field) to the highest bidder...

It's ok to stop sending me law school publications that describe a bunch of achievements now--I've voted already.
As chair of this year's appointments committee here at Boyd, I've been getting all of those glossy publications touting various law schools' achievements. You can stop sending me the "law porn" now...

You've gotta love this--the perfect decanal letter(s) responding to USNWR rankings
Thanks to the WSJ.com Law Blog, you can now read University of Tennessee law prof Gregory Stein's parodies of decanal letters responding to increases and decreases in the USNWR rankings (here)...

Lipshaw & Henderson's post related to this morning's WSJ article on the USNWR rankings
Bill Henderson & Jeff Lipshaw have done a masterful job over at Legal Profession Blog (here) taking the implications of Amir Efrati's story (see my post here) to their logical conclusions.

Before the USNWR rankings come out....
Here's the ABA Journal's spin on all of this (click here).