Tell the ABA how to fix our Profession Forum

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[ph5354a]

Oh my god... please be a troll.

Many law-school graduates coming from "lowerranked" schools are unable to find decent work because they are kept out of the market by
underachievers at "higher-ranked" institutions who are flooding the market.

Edited to clarify that the above quote is the least offensive sentence in this two-page monstrosity.

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[North]

Lastly, although the U.S. News and World Report rankings have done the legal community nothing but injustice since the time of their inception, they just got a lot worse this year by taking advice about their methodology from organizations such as Law School Transparency. Law School Transparency claims that the employment rates at schools like Florida Coastal School of Law are in the low-30%s, but they use an arbitrary method of calculating an equally arbitrary "employment score" that discounts many forms of desirable employment. As reported by the school itself, the real employment rate for the class of 2012 was actually 74.3%. Accordingly, the ABA needs to do something about the blatant misreporting of data over the Internet because it is affecting the ability of intelligent graduates at good schools to find decent employment.

I don't even.

[CaptainLeela]

Welcome to TLS

[A. Nony Mouse]

Oh my god... please be a troll.

Oh dear... I mean, I have some sympathy for the argument that GPA/LSAT aren't the best indicators of whether you'll be a good attorney and that rankings take on too much importance. But I don't think holding up Florida Coastal as an example to which Harvard should aspire is really ever a winning argument.

[North]

I can't tell which is worse... that one, or the one that North posted earlier...

The one I posted was mostly incoherent babbling. This dude appears to have put serious thought into this. This one is worse because, after putting all that thought in, he still managed to sit down and type this.

For someone who uses the word 'illogical' so often, you'd think he'd know how to recognize it in his own drivel.

[North]

Oh my god... please be a troll.

Oh dear... I mean, I have some sympathy for the argument that GPA/LSAT aren't the best indicators of whether you'll be a good attorney and that rankings take on too much importance. But I don't think holding up Florida Coastal as an example to which Harvard should aspire is really ever a winning argument.

Yeah he didn't pussyfoot around by matching Coastal up with, say, UF.

Right for the throat.

[justonemoregame]

Sounds like Lloyd Jackson is singing the ABA's tune. They'll probably put his shit to a vote by Friday (whatever his point was), much like that proposal to allow schools to push back their employment reporting date. It's funny, the comments section is chock full of ideas, some directly on point and some objectively, mind-blowingly confused and mis-informed, and the one they prioritize is some left-field attempt to massage the numbers ever further.

[buddyt]

What if a Harvard graduate comes out of school with no money, no job, and nobody to help them study for the bar? What good will their JD do them in such a scenario? Inversely, students at schools like Florida Coastal University, which has an Enhanced Bar Pass Program, will be in a much better position to become a practicing attorney after law school.

lolol

[LST is]...an arbitrary method of calculating an equally arbitrary "employment score" that discounts many forms of desirable employment.

Barista = desirable employment. Got it.

there's too many, i just can't

[20141023]

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[North]

I really like that format Reg.

[dsn32]

Oh my god... please be a troll.

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....but seriously, what a joke.

[prezidentv8]

Oh my god... please be a troll.

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....but seriously, what a joke.

OH WAT IS THIS