Taxation & Estate Planning

Law School Rankings Under Scrutiny Again
When I last wrote about law school rankings (in the summer of 2007), it was in response to a post at the Law School Innovation blog rounding up some reporting and commentary on law school rankings, including an article in National Law Journal about a potential boycott of magazine rankings surveys used by the magazines [...

Additional Insights About Law School Rankings
The U.S. News Law School Rankings are Over-EmphasizedI love the idea of the U.S. News law school Rankings going to a "Top 10", 1st Tier, 2nd Tier, Regional Schools listing (as suggested by articles and comments here) because I hate to see law school applicants choose #21 over #24 simply because that's how the schools are ranked in a particular year...

Solove on the Contradictory Goals of Law School Rankings
Check out Dan Solove's (George Washington) US News law school rankings commentary on Concurring Opinions. Here's a snip from his post, The Contradictory Goals of Law School Rankings: If we step back from this year's frenzy, I believe that there's...

University of Minnesota's Take on the Rankings
Here's another example of a school that hasn't changed much in the rankings since 1996 but is catching flak for going down 2 spots in 2009: University of Minnesota Law School.Think this school will be watching its incoming LSATs a bit more closely? Probably...

What if there were two competing rankings
In an earlier post, I suggested the idea of a BCS calculation for law school rankings, which would combine the U.S. News poll with other, less prominent, rankings. It is a project I intend to pursue, and am now evaluating...

US News 2009 Law School Rankings Now Online
Background Information by US News How to Use the Rankings Wisely Methodology Used to Rank Law Schools Additional Information The 2009 US News Law School Rankings is now online in a substantially redesigned web format...

School Racism
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Student Harassment
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School House Abuse
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Collins GA
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Fayette County School Board
faces sex abuse class action lawsuit

Ellsworth School District
4.4% increase in salaries as part of contract settlement.