Legal Research

2009 U.S News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
The new online 2009 U.S. News Law School Rankings do not yet offer a way to sort by the various categories (although I am told that this feature will be added at some point in the future)...

Bell: Z-Scores in 2009 U.S. News Law School Rankings
Tom Bell (Chapman), featured in yesterday's front page Wall Street Journal article, Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter "Gaming," has published the Z-Scores in his model of the 2009 U...

U.S. News 2009 Law School Rankings Are Out!
The U.S. News and World Reports 2009 Law School Rankings are available here. This years free version provides a bit more detail than previous versions. Specifically, the number of students and the law school tutition is listed which enable limited...

Model of 2009 USN&WR Law School Rankings
As I have every year since 2006, I this year again tried to duplicate the law school rankings published by the U.S. News & World Report ("USN&WR"). Although it took me longer than usual to model the most recent rankings?the "2009" rankings, as USN&WR styles them?I ended up getting the best fit, yet...

New 2009 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2009 U.S. News Law School Tax Rankings were released today: 1. NYU (#1 last year) 2. Florida (#2) 3. Georgetown (#3) 4. Northwestern (#4) 5. UCLA (#7) 6. Harvard (#5) 6. Miami (#6) 8...

More About the Law School Rankings
As you know, I've done quite a bit of blogging on both the productive and detrimental reliance of law school applicants (and of the law schools themselves) on the U.S. News Rankings...

Online Ticket Vendor
Buying Tickets Online That Never Arrive

School Racism
School District pays $250,000 in racial harassment settlement.

Student Harassment
Wichita School District pays $45,000 settlement for high school students' harassment lawsuit.

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.