Posts by David Frakt

The ABA Standard 509 reports came out a few weeks ago, and there are many alarming statistics in them, but none quite so disturbing as the admissions information from Western ...

The most recent volume of the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education’s journal, Syllabus, contains two articles that seem to be a response to Law School Transparency and ...

Back on December 4, Whittier Law Professor Sheldon Lyke wrote a post here on TFL which was sharply critical of Law School Transparency. In fact, he accused Law School Transparency ...

I was pleased to see Professor Sheldon Lyke's attempt to defend Whittier's admission practices. His post raised many questions in my mind.  In this reply, I will pose some questions…

Law School Transparency’s recent report, the 2015 State of Legal Education, led to numerous articles in the national media about the trend of law schools admitting large numbers of poorly ...

Dear Readers - I have recently been invited to serve as the Chair of the National Council of Advisors for Law School Transparency (LST), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. My first task…

An important new report entitled: 2015 State of Legal Education: An in-depth look into law school admissions choices” has just been released by Law School Transparency (LST).  (Full disclosure – ...

Over at TaxProfBlog, I found the abstract of a great new article by Jay Sterling Silver  of St. Thomas: Pedagogically Sound Cuts, Tighter (Not Looser) Accreditation Standards, and a Well-oiled Doomsday Machine:…

When I went to law school (I graduated from Harvard in 1994), no one ever mentioned the bar exam.   In fact, I don’t remember a single one of my professors ...

The article discusses lower admission standards at American law schools and the potential consequences thereof.  I, Jerry Organ, Jay Conison, Barry Currier (managing director of accreditation and legal education at…