Most attorneys recall law school as a blur of long hours spent reading cases and what seemed like even longer classes spent waiting for professors to ask questions about the reading, all accompanied by a vague sense of dread and ...

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Philosopher Thomas Carlyle said, “A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.”   With that in mind, last year was a bit less sad for law ...

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After returning from a recent haircut appointment, I realized one of my sideburns hung about half an inch below the other. I generally believe my stylist does a great job cutting my hair. But why, then, was that detail overlooked this time? The answer may be instructive to us as attorneys.

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As of late last week, an online petition imploring the owners of Charleston School of Law not to sell it to the InfiLaw group had gained more than 1,000 signatures. But the school’s two majority-holding board members remain steadfast in their commitment to turn it over to a deep-pocketed suitor.

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The good news for this year’s crop of new law students is that a clear picture of the legal profession’s future may be coming into focus. That could also be the bad news.

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The perennial clamor to modernize legal education, and to solve the problem of too many lawyers for too few paying jobs, has done little to discourage Americans from flocking to law school.

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The news concerning the job prospects of law school graduates has been relentlessly downbeat, filled with horror stories suggesting that grads at some schools are more likely to get jobs as store clerks than law clerks. But law schools take stock of the career fortunes of alumni only one time, nine months after graduation. After that, you’ll get plenty of anecdotes, but a paucity of hard numbers—and, given the state of the economy, law schools have little incentive to go looking for any.

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The New York Times reported extensively in recent weeks on the impending crisis facing all but the most elite of U.S. law schools and the measures some institutions are taking to counteract it. But more is needed.

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Speaking of college football, we thought we’d try an interesting experiment: What if college football teams were ranked on the basis of how highly placed their law schools are in the U.S. News & World Report rankings?

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The University of South Carolina and Duke University were among 37 law schools whose 2011 first-year classes were smaller and slightly less polished than their 2010 counterparts. Whether those numbers offer further proof that the law school sky is falling or simply reflect an adjusting market depends on which academic you ask.

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