Posts by David Frakt

UPDATED 12/16 (The new and revised parts are in italics) As Alfred Brophy reports, once again law school applicants are down this year.  The number of applicants is down 8.5% ...

Bloomberg Businessweek has an article out this week entitled “Getting Into Law School Is Easier Than It Used to Be, and That's Not Good”.   The article draws heavily on a recent…

Last week, I challenged Jay Conison to provide some data to substantiate his claims that a.) Charlotte School of Law/InfiLaw has some magic formula for identifying students with very low…

I commend Dean Jay Conison of Charlotte School of Law for coming on to The Faculty Lounge and trying to defend the recent admission practices of Charlotte and his sister ...

When I visited Florida Coastal last spring for my Dean interview, my prescription to turn the school around was drastic.  I told them they should immediately rescind offers of admission…

The ABA Standard 509 Information Report was a major step forward for law school transparency.  (Note - the reports on all ABA-Accredited law schools can be found here)  The reports ...

In recognition of the release of the SSCI Report, I thought I would share a couple of pieces that I wrote about the torture of a detainee that I represented…

Introduction:  I often discuss my TFL posts and the comments thereto with my father, Arthur Frakt.  Dad was a long-time faculty member and Associate Dean at Rutgers-Camden before becoming Dean ...

UPDATE:  Responding to popular demand,  I have attached a sanitized version of the presentation I gave at Florida Coastal last spring here: Download FCSL sanitized   I have removed proprietary data, such…

It may well be that there are too many law schools in the country.  Clearly, the number of law school graduates in recent years has exceeded the number of jobs ...