tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43355097633455487772024-03-05T09:50:27.417-05:00The PresTTTigious Legal "Profession"You can't put a price on presTTTige!PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-3115370832506321132018-08-20T19:30:00.000-04:002018-08-20T19:31:53.133-04:00Law school applications increase<p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/law-school-applications-increase-upon-realization-that-1828464779">https://www.theonion.com/law-school-applications-increase-upon-realization-that-1828464779</a></p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFZ6KmKE7NyjI5pHSxelTo5uRLSCuqSMDXFIW3uBNiKbwNyvamKj3LcCkKygoRYiFtXQtl2Kwt1o3YkSQ_13gC4rP9V8VyPC0i0poVeMl9Wjy_qJ5Qd96d4t-mmCg6FtOc76UY9PW7cys/s1600/LawSchool.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFZ6KmKE7NyjI5pHSxelTo5uRLSCuqSMDXFIW3uBNiKbwNyvamKj3LcCkKygoRYiFtXQtl2Kwt1o3YkSQ_13gC4rP9V8VyPC0i0poVeMl9Wjy_qJ5Qd96d4t-mmCg6FtOc76UY9PW7cys/s320/LawSchool.PNG" width="320" height="320" data-original-width="804" data-original-height="803" /></a></div>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-24034648716031372932018-03-30T13:43:00.000-04:002018-03-30T13:43:55.924-04:00February 2018<p>Have a happy Easter, Passover, whatever.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">February</td><td width="10%">2017</td><td width="20%">1,125,400</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2017</td><td>1,143,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2018</td><td>1,128,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2018</td><td>1,128,900</td><td>3,500</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,131,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2017</td><td>1,137,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2018</td><td>1,135,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2018</td><td>1,135,700</td><td>4,200</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Jan-18 to<br/>Feb-18</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-200</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-49908431202202469562018-02-28T13:52:00.001-05:002018-02-28T17:57:13.451-05:00January 2018<p>Regarding the December 2017 post, that didn't take long. In other news, looks like December 2017 seasonally adjusted is higher than any point since I started this blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">January</td><td width="10%">2017</td><td width="20%">1,125,500</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2017</td><td>1,138,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2017</td><td>1,143,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2018</td><td>1,127,700</td><td>2,200</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,132,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2017</td><td>1,135,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2017</td><td>1,136,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2018</td><td>1,135,500</td><td>3,000</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Dec-17 to<br/>Jan-18</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-1,100</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-11289089751947684382018-01-05T09:11:00.000-05:002018-01-05T09:11:03.614-05:00December 2017<p>My New Years resolution is more timely updates. Should have fallen off the wagon by March.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">December</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,130,500</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2017</td><td>1,130,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2017</td><td>1,130,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2017</td><td>1,133,600</td><td>3,100</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,126,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2017</td><td>1,127,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,200</td><td>2,100</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Nov-17 to<br/>Dec-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>600</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-90193284198734260282017-12-29T19:41:00.000-05:002017-12-29T19:41:46.785-05:00November 2017<p>Have a happy New Year. Also, Nando, thanks for everything. I don't think people realize the amount of work that goes into maintaining a blog. The other thing you didn't mention is the amount of invective hurled at you personally in the early days.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">November</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,124,700</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2017</td><td>1,123,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2017</td><td>1,130,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2017</td><td>1,131,600</td><td>6,900</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,122,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2017</td><td>1,127,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,700</td><td>6,200</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Oct-17 to<br/>Nov-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>600</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-62867573565124230032017-11-19T14:04:00.000-05:002017-11-19T14:06:20.261-05:00OcTTTober 2017<p>Greetings, scam fans. There's little news on the legal employment front, but then there never is. Seriously, look back at this post in November 2020 and leave a comment if it's changed by more than a few thousand. I'll wait.</p>
<p>In school news, Valparaiso's "<a href="https://www.valpo.edu/law/valparaiso-university-announces-it-is-exploring-alternative-possibilities-related-to-its-law-school-activities" target="_blank" title="Valpo">Board voted to suspend admission</a> of a first-year law school class in Valparaiso, Indiana for the fall of 2018" while it searches for sunnier climes. May I suggest Chile? OTLSS did a good write-up <a href="http://outsidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2017/11/valparaiso-exploring-alternatives-to.html" target="_blank" title="OTLSS">here</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">October</td><td width="10%">2017</td><td width="20%">1,125,100</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2018</td><td>1,129,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2018</td><td>1,123,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2018</td><td>1,128,500</td><td>3,400</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>October</td><td>2017</td><td>1,122,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2018</td><td>1,126,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2018</td><td>1,127,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2018</td><td>1,126,200</td><td>3,500</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Sep-18 to<br/>Oct-18</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-1,100</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-39550149073293755692017-11-02T09:49:00.002-04:002017-11-02T09:49:44.520-04:00SepTTTember 2017<p>Happy November.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">September</td><td width="10%">2017</td><td width="20%">1,117,700</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2018</td><td>1,137,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2018</td><td>1,130,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2018</td><td>1,125,000</td><td>7,300</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>September</td><td>2017</td><td>1,121,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2018</td><td>1,127,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2018</td><td>1,127,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2018</td><td>1,128,600</td><td>7,300</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Aug-18 to<br/>Sep-18</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>900</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-20561819651838693802017-09-30T15:53:00.000-04:002017-09-30T15:53:26.435-04:00AugusTTT 2017<p>If I wait any longer it will be November.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">August</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,124,400</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2017</td><td>1,140,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2017</td><td>1,136,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,900</td><td>4,500</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,121,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2017</td><td>1,130,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2017</td><td>1,126,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2017</td><td>1,126,300</td><td>4,500</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Jul-17 to<br/>Aug-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>100</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-90724522701919091982017-09-21T14:00:00.003-04:002017-09-21T14:00:45.933-04:00WaTTTerheads fail Mississippi bar<p>In one of those tail-wagging-the-dog sequences, I noticed the following cartoon and then searched to get context.</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijndMtyWF1oWnyNoHVvMFUype7nN98Tw4KtZ5pHn-lQX38Y-mCXQ9mMuL4_6wCt2E3eKbHAZYuZwq-qlaKWkQHXmLkZa3BfmITtsJK3bgw_-ry_dAEColmID0c6XREHBhmaL-xYGNyeTk/s1600/636415633632204444-092017jax-mississippi-bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijndMtyWF1oWnyNoHVvMFUype7nN98Tw4KtZ5pHn-lQX38Y-mCXQ9mMuL4_6wCt2E3eKbHAZYuZwq-qlaKWkQHXmLkZa3BfmITtsJK3bgw_-ry_dAEColmID0c6XREHBhmaL-xYGNyeTk/s320/636415633632204444-092017jax-mississippi-bar.jpg" width="480" height="360" data-original-width="680" data-original-height="510" /></a></div>
<p>Article is <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/09/18/mississippi-bar-exam-pass-rate-53-percent/669515001/" target="_blank" title="Clarion Ledger">here</a>. I don't spend much time thinking about the Mississippi bar, nor Mississippi in general, but came away dumbfounded and thought I'd share. Briefly, the July bar passage rate was 53 percent, low enough to raise eyebrows. The February exam was an outright slaughter. First, the obligatory conjecture.</p>
<blockquote>No one seems to know for sure why the exam passing rate is declining, but some have suggested it may be that law schools are accepting less qualified students.</blockquote>
<p>I personally think the bar passage rate is declining due to a huge, rollicking grading conspiracy, but that's just one blogger's opinion, man. A local lawyer interviewed, who done passed the bar in 2016, believes the exam is too subjective and thanks Jesus for her own success. Praise the Lord!</p>
<p>The most inane thing is further down.</p>
<blockquote>A Cleveland woman filed a complaint in Hinds County Chancery Court over her failed 2015 bar examination. Zundria Crawford wanted permission to sue the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions, but the judge denied her petition. Crawford has filed an appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court.</blockquote>
<p>We've moved from suing schools to <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/09/12/judge-cleveland-woman-cant-sue-over-failed-bar-exam/653340001/" target="_blank" title="Clarion Ledger">suing the bar examiners</a>. My WAG is that somewhere in the background either a school — or another entity with a vested interest — instigated and is funding this. For her part:</p>
<blockquote>When asked why she didn't just retake the bar exam, Crawford replied, it's not about her but will affect all applicants for the Mississippi Bar. She said she was deprived of her rights.</blockquote>
<p>In the event Ms. Crawford is unsuccessful in her appeal, some advice for Mississippi bar applicants: You don't need to study harder. You need to pray harder.</p>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-6562640047098002772017-08-04T09:47:00.000-04:002017-08-04T09:47:22.951-04:00July 2017<p>Happy August. I didn't want to waste one keystroke on <a href="https://bol.bna.com/todays-law-degree-takes-on-a-broader-meaning/" target="_blank" title="Bloomberg">Today's Law Degree Takes on a Broader Meaning</a> but I'm stewing.</p>
<blockquote>At the heart of the shift is a term used by schools known as "JD Advantage," which refers to a job that doesn't require a law degree but where a J.D. is advantageous in the eyes of an employer. Such jobs include compliance officers, paralegals, consultants and journalists.<br><br>
Organizations that monitor law school performance have measured an uptick in this area of employment: the proportion of law school graduates obtaining JD advantage jobs has steadily increased — from 8 to 14 percent — since 2007.</blockquote>
<p>These people NEVER quit; they lie awake thinking of ways to scam. I thought JD Advantage™ would wither from derision, but instead it is becoming the new normal. As a stylistic matter, note how Bloomberg has the term in quotes before giving it a less conspicuous treatment in the next paragraph.</p>
<p>To any college student — Lordy, I hope there are some — reading this: if your employer thinks it is helpful for you to have a JD then let them pay for it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">July</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,131,500</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2017</td><td>1,125,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2017</td><td>1,140,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2017</td><td>1,136,900</td><td>5,400</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,121,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2017</td><td>1,130,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2017</td><td>1,126,400</td><td>5,000</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Jun-17 to<br/>Jul-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-4,300</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-46446079375336508042017-07-07T12:53:00.001-04:002017-07-07T12:53:54.235-04:00June 2017<p>This was both a good month and a good year. Now, if only a few dozen more schools would close …</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">June</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,129,000</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>April</td><td>2017</td><td>1,121,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2017</td><td>1,125,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2017</td><td>1,140,100</td><td>11,100</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>June</td><td>2016</td><td>1,120,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>April</td><td>2017</td><td>1,125,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2017</td><td>1,128,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2017</td><td>1,130,800</td><td>10,000</tr>
<tr><td>Change from May-17 to<br/>Jun-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2,000</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-61336553352175347262017-06-25T16:10:00.001-04:002017-06-25T16:19:39.129-04:00May 2017<p>It's becoming unrealistic for me to keep this blog going. I'll see if I can manage once a month.</p>
<p>First, it makes no sense to continue baying into the ether. Smart students <a href="http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/06/top-college-students-increasingly-are-not-interested-in-law-school.html" target="_blank" title="LawProf">already avoid law school</a>. To quote Paul Campos:</p>
<blockquote>These percentages are even more stark when converted into raw numbers. In 2010, just under 36,000 people with LSAT scores of 160+ applied for fall admission. This year, that number is going to be 14,000. This is a 61% decline (law school applications as a whole are down 39% over that time).</blockquote>
<p>The remainder mostly shouldn't be going to law school, yet the U.S. Government is willing to lend them unlimited funds and the academy is happy to take it. I've accepted there's nothing neither I nor anyone else can do about that. Sure, there will be some random school closures, but circa 2017 the scam is alive and well. If anything, things have gotten worse; back in the day a successful applicant had a good chance of passing the bar.</p>
<p>The problem in focusing on law school is losing sight of the big picture. Last November a hostile government helped — the other party did itself no favor — elect the most incompetent, self-serving, corrupt candidate in history. His party, which looks to him as a means to an end, is worse. Here's a good example: <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/24/gop-rep-fine-people-dying-trumpcare-long-saves-money.html" target="_blank" title="Politicus">GOP rep says he's fine with more people dying under Trumpcare as long as it saves money</a>. Your new government, ladies and gentlemen. Puts law school in perspective, doesn't it?</p>
<p>If you haven't bothered with Twitter then I urge you in the strongest possible terms to take a look. Think of it as 2009-era scamblogging, with writers trying to reach a disbelieving public while facing a well-organized disinformation effort. You don't need to sign up. The following should get you started.</p>
<p><ul style="list-style-type: none;"><li><a href="https://twitter.com/louisemensch" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/louisemensch</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/20committee" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/20committee</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Broadsword_6" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/Broadsword_6</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Spicerlies" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/Spicerlies</a> [major law geek]</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/counterchekist" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/counterchekist</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ericgarland" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/ericgarland</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/RVAwonk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin" target="_blank" title="Twitter">https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin</a>
</ul></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">May</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,116,900</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>March</td><td>2017</td><td>1,118,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>April</td><td>2017</td><td>1,121,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2017</td><td>1,124,800</td><td>7,900</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>May</td><td>2016</td><td>1,120,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>March</td><td>2017</td><td>1,123,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>April</td><td>2017</td><td>1,125,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2017</td><td>1,127,700</td><td>7,600</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Apr-17 to<br/>May-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2,000</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-79273861062985246002017-05-08T09:19:00.002-04:002017-05-08T09:19:31.844-04:00April 2017<p>April was a good month. Not for legal employment, mind you, but for toilets and their administrators falling like dominoes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">April</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,114,500</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,118,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>March</td><td>2017</td><td>1,118,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>April</td><td>2017</td><td>1,120,200</td><td>5,700</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>April</td><td>2016</td><td>1,119,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,123,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>March</td><td>2017</td><td>1,123,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>April</td><td>2017</td><td>1,124,100</td><td>4,800</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Mar-17 to<br/>Apr-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1,100</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-12234833380681228812017-04-10T10:03:00.000-04:002017-04-10T10:03:46.501-04:00The States finally step in<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/business/dealbook/states-say-navient-preyed-on-students.html" target="_blank" title="NY Times">Loans 'Designed to Fail': States Say Navient Preyed on Students</a></p>
<blockquote>From the outset, the lender knew that many borrowers would be unable to repay, government lawyers say, but it still made the loans, ensnaring students in debt traps that have dogged them for more than a decade.<br/><br/>While these risky loans were a bad deal for students, they were a boon for Sallie Mae. The private loans were — as Sallie Mae itself put it — a "baited hook" that the lender used to reel in more federally guaranteed loans, according to an internal strategy memo cited in the Illinois lawsuit.</blockquote>
<p>Here's hoping the states have better luck than borrowers have to date.</p>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-87261194359320785182017-04-07T10:53:00.000-04:002017-04-07T10:53:13.958-04:00March 2017<p>Meh.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">March</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,115,600</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,118,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,117,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>March</td><td>2017</td><td>1,117,200</td><td>1,600</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>March</td><td>2016</td><td>1,119,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,125,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,123,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>March</td><td>2017</td><td>1,121,800</td><td>2,200</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Feb-17 to<br/>Mar-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-1,500</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-70584056201973120442017-03-19T13:35:00.000-04:002017-03-19T13:37:40.405-04:00Rise of the robolawyers<p>The Atlantic has an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/rise-of-the-robolawyers/517794/" target="_blank" title="The Atlantic">article</a> this month on the consumerization of legal AI. The TL;DR is that garden variety civil legal issues are amenable to automation and "bots will become the main entry point into the legal system." The prediction is that by 2025, bots will handle the majority of divorces, contract disputes, and deportation proceedings.</p>
<p>Let me say this: both my work and encounters with vendors give me a good vantage point. I've argued since the early-2000s about technology displacing lawyers and other professionals. It was interesting having someone tell me I wasn't that smart after I posted an image of a production scanner, never mind that I had been to trade shows and met offshoring companies that would handle its output.</p>
<p>At this point I don't care whether you go to law school or not. The main thing you should be aware is that it is now commercially viable to replace lawyers with artificial intelligence, with the technology moving inexorably down the legal food chain. Absent protectionist measures — there won't be any — the writing is on the wall.</p>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-22318675317185612017-03-12T13:17:00.002-04:002017-03-12T13:21:04.743-04:00Harvard legiTTTimizes a scam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eLBFdk50twt5E1BHDmkVtJ2uphcsNvmpkzPjBiVZEXgbtbmRDp1D_LVT7kZkhoFr4RxCRX83BoWc_v3t7dApiTeEDJqJYe7flfZ0KisgQda-yTh-WXWMT-I42hpngscc7eyFKL0zarY/s1600/fakecaptcha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eLBFdk50twt5E1BHDmkVtJ2uphcsNvmpkzPjBiVZEXgbtbmRDp1D_LVT7kZkhoFr4RxCRX83BoWc_v3t7dApiTeEDJqJYe7flfZ0KisgQda-yTh-WXWMT-I42hpngscc7eyFKL0zarY/s1600/fakecaptcha.jpg" /></a></div><p>A funny thing happened on the way to this post. I created the above image over a year ago, intending to write about toilets doing an end run around the LSAT by accepting GRE results instead. The gist was that schools needed an innocuous, facially valid test to help get Asses In Seats while concurrently obscuring how dumb the asses actually were. In other words, a rankings scam.</p>
<p>Taking that to its logical conclusion, the best available easily-administered and graded, low-cost, objective test is <a href="http://captcha.net/" target="_blank" title="Official CAPTCHA site">CAPTCHA</a>. Seriously. I've played Oregon Trail on a teletype, so I'm an expert on typing tests. "BANG!" For bonus irony, CAPTCHA is designed to defeat Artificial Intelligence yet AI will ultimately handle the work that might have gone to toilet graduates.</p>
<p>Harvard, eh, Hahvard, you peons, just threw a monkey wrench into that. The 8,000-pound gorilla of the legal academy <a href="https://today.law.harvard.edu/gre/" target="_blank" title="Harvard GRE announcement">announced</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Starting in the fall of 2017, Harvard Law School will allow applicants to submit either the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) to be considered for admission to its three-year J.D. program.</p>
<p>The pilot program to accept the GRE is part of a wider strategy at Harvard Law School to expand access to legal education for students in the United States and internationally. … The Law School’s decision to accept the GRE will alleviate the financial burden on applicants who would otherwise be required to prepare and pay for an additional test.</p>
<p>The change is supported by an HLS study, designed in 2016 and completed earlier this year, examining, on an anonymized basis, the GRE scores of current and former HLS students who took both the GRE and the LSAT. In accordance with American Bar Association (ABA) Standards for Legal Education, the aim of the study was to determine whether the GRE is a valid predictor of first-year academic performance in law school. <span style="font-weight:bold">The statistical study showed that the GRE is an equally valid predictor of first-year grades</span>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let's look at the winners:</p>
<ul><li>Harvard, which just expanded its applicant pool amidst an ongoing <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/the-smartest-people-are-opting-out-of-law-school" target="_blank" title="Bloomberg">brain drain</a> as the smartest students avoid law school</li>
<li>Columbia and Chicago, which will pick up Harvard's dregs</li>
<li>Every toilet from Brooklyn to Costa Mesa. If the most prominent law school in the country says the GRE is a valid proxy then who's to argue? Christmas just came nine months early at Cooley, where disseminating unintentionally humorous irrelevant comparisons to Harvard is an insTTTiTTTuTTTion</li></ul>
<p>The losers:</p>
<ul><li>The LSAC, but they'll get over it</li>
<li>Anyone going to a school outside the T6. This was also the case before Harvard's change</li>
<li>A handful of 170 or 171-LSAT scorers who get Columbia as a consolation prize. It will be interesting if this bulge descends further down the rankings</li>
<li>Taxpayers, as toilets <a href="http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/2017/03/crooklyn-law-school-pig-nicolas-allard.html" target="_blank" title="TTR">prey</a> on a newly-expanded pool of stupid, gullible SJWs</li></ul>
<p>Law school vs dying of dysentery? Tough choice.</p>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-49203107547636922062017-03-10T10:59:00.000-05:002017-03-10T10:59:26.489-05:00February 2017<p>So much material to post, so little motivation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">February</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,112,500</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,130,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,119,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,119,200</td><td>6,700</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>February</td><td>2016</td><td>1,119,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,126,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,126,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>February</td><td>2017</td><td>1,125,100</td><td>6,000</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Jan-17 to<br/>Feb-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-1,300</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-81347156303716987692017-02-12T16:51:00.000-05:002017-02-12T16:51:13.179-05:00January 2017<p>I titled this blog after I graduated law school and was subsequently unable to reconcile a so-called profession's obsession with prestige with its patent scumminess. Scummy practitioners who are miserable human beings. A scummy academy that has driven the best and brightest students away, even as it encourages mediocre ones to matriculate and throw away their life. A scummy accreditor that needs no further comment. A scummy judiciary that blames the victims, aka "sophisticated consumers."</p>
<p>A while ago I reached a point where I not only lost interest in blogging, but even reading other scamblogs I've followed for years.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I popped into <a href="http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/2017/02/beyond-pathetic-food-drive-for.html" target="_blank" title="Third Tier Reality">TTR</a> recently and saw that Charlotte School of Law is holding a food drive. For its own students. The tl;dr version is the Dept of Education finally put the screws to a law school and cut off Federal loans, something it should have begun in the Joan King era.</p>
<p>Reportedly, the DoE offered to extend loans for the spring semester if the school agreed to shut down, but scumminess won the day. Nando and his commenters have already said all that needs to be, so I'll quit here.</p>
<p> Please give generously. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/csl-students-living-expenses" target="_blank" title="GoFundMe">CSL Students' Living Expenses</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">January</td><td width="10%">2016</td><td width="20%">1,111,000</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,124,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,130,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,117,400</td><td>6,400</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>January</td><td>2016</td><td>1,119,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,122,500</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>January</td><td>2017</td><td>1,124,900</td><td>5,500</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Dec-16 to<br/>Jan-17</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-900</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-71977843186699605352017-01-31T19:11:00.001-05:002017-01-31T19:12:10.680-05:00December 2016<p>I'm obviously on top of things.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">December</td><td width="10%">2015</td><td width="20%">1,130,000</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2016</td><td>1,128,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,127,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,131,900</td><td>1,900</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>December</td><td>2015</td><td>1,124,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2016</td><td>1,126,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>December</td><td>2016</td><td>1,127,600</td><td>3,400</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Nov-16 to<br/>Dec-16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2,000</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-23389351637745632932016-12-02T09:26:00.000-05:002016-12-02T09:26:12.469-05:00November 2016<p>If I'm inspired, and I probably won't be, I'll comment on <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/aba_should_help_law_schools_consolidate_says_higher_ed_market_analyst" target="_blank" title="ABA Journal">this</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">November</td><td width="10%">2015</td><td width="20%">1,126,400</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2016</td><td>1,121,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2016</td><td>1,127,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,127,300</td><td>900</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>November</td><td>2015</td><td>1,123,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2016</td><td>1,124,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>November</td><td>2016</td><td>1,124,600</td><td>800</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Oct-16 to<br/>Nov-16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-500</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-92173362024959385832016-11-27T13:13:00.002-05:002016-11-27T13:17:04.902-05:00OcTTTober 2016<p>One benefit to being <strike>dilatory</strike> a lazy POS is that I can watch events unfold and write about them at my leisure. Sometimes I'll have a theme for a post, start a draft, and it will be immediately obviated by the news.</p>
<p>Three things have happened of late.</p>
<p><ul><li>Donald Trump was elected president running on a populist theme</li>
<li>Indiana Tech announced it was <a href="http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/2016/11/toilet-closure-indiana-tech-law-school.html" target="_blank" title="TTR">closing</a> its stillborn law school</li>
<li>"Let's see — I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops." Oh yeah: California's July bar passage hit a <a href="http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/2016/11/californias-bar-passage-rate-hits-32.html" target="_blank" title="TTR">32-year-low</a>, mirroring other jurisdictions</li></ul></p>
<p>Just so we're clear, Indiana Tech is the harbinger of nothing. The university already absorbed the substantial sunk cost of starting the school and could have limped along, augmented by offering undergraduate courses, distance learning, and luring foreign students. I've <a href="http://prestttigious.blogspot.com/2014/08/july-2014.html" target="_blank" title="July 2014">previously</a> opined that as long as law schools keep their expenses in line with revenue — scamsizing™ as it were — they are viable indefinitely. Uncle Sam has made the academy immune to market forces and using business terms and concepts to discuss it is obfuscation. I truly believe that the State of Indiana told the university board to shitcan the school, with <a href="http://www.theindianalawyer.com/lone-indiana-tech-law-student-passes-july-exam/PARAMS/article/41433" target="_blank" title="Indiana Lawyer: Lone Indiana Tech Student Passes July Exam">this</a> as the last straw. Basically, one well-connected individual contacted one well-connected board member, maybe even in person(!), and that was all it took.</p>
<p>I'm not speculating; I've seen this done. The government has enough harassment tools to obtain cooperation from anyone.</p>
<p>When I was in law skool a long time ago I had a course on business entities. The professor, who was a partner at a large firm, described states falling over themselves to emulate Delaware law as a race-to-the-bottom. He predicted that what the legislatures gave, the courts would take back.</p>
<p>Fast forward to about 2013 and the inception of another race to the bottom, this time with academic credentials of admitted students. As my professor could have predicted, the state bars are <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/854736/uniform-bar-exam-is-not-the-problem-is-law-school.html" target="_blank" title="ABQ Journal">digging in</a>. Even doing nothing — leaving the exam and passing score static — is a rational option. The end result <strike>is</strike> was Indiana Tech.</p>
<p>That brings me to Trump. If you'd asked me last month about the 75% bar-passage requirement to be voted on February 2017 by the ABA's House of Delegates (is that presTTTigious or what?), I'd have speculated a watered-down version would be enacted. Given the overwrought reaction to Trump's election — recounts pending as I type this — I now think no effin' way. Diversity, you know?</p>
<p>Seriously, no sooner had the votes been counted then TTTexas legislators began pushing for <a href="http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/local_news/article_7a4fe7e4-b38c-11e6-bc0c-93dbbacacb09.html" target="_blank" title="Valley Star">yet another school</a>! If I may quote, "[E]verybody has a law school." Does that sound like someone who's worried about the school ultimately being accredited?</p>
<p>Oh, and don't look for debt relief, either. Ever.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">October</td><td width="10%">2015</td><td width="20%">1,125,400</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,128,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2016</td><td>1,121,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2016</td><td>1,127,500</td><td>2,100</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>October</td><td>2015</td><td>1,123,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>October</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,300</td><td>1,500</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Sep-16 to<br/>Oct-16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-100</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-29801035074394975202016-11-13T16:36:00.000-05:002016-11-13T16:36:45.248-05:00SepTTTember 2016<p>Better late than never.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">September</td><td width="10%">2015</td><td width="20%">1,117,000</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,135,400</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,128,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2016</td><td>1,122,000</td><td>5,000</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>September</td><td>2015</td><td>1,122,800</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>September</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,600</td><td>2,800</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Aug-16 to<br/>Sep-16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>400</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-64228217004032529232016-09-02T12:16:00.000-04:002016-09-02T12:16:53.093-04:00AugusTTT 2016<p>Only news of late is a <a href="http://www.lawschoolcafe.org/2016/08/31/surprise-mbe-scores-rise-in-2016/" target="_blank" title="Deborah J. Merritt">slight rise</a> in the average MBE score. There is speculation about the cause, but given the legal academy's penchant both for kicking the can down the road and general despicableness it likely involved shitcanning the same nitwits the school welcomed with open arms two years earlier. We'll see when they publish attrition rates and the number of first-time test takers for each school.</p>
<p>One commenter suggested the median score didn't change and that the increase is due to the top half of the median scoring higher while the water heads continue to flail. Again, we'll see.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">August</td><td width="10%">2015</td><td width="20%">1,121,500</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2016</td><td>1,133,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,134,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,128,400</td><td>6,900</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>August</td><td>2015</td><td>1,118,600</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2016</td><td>1,124,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,000</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>August</td><td>2016</td><td>1,125,000</td><td>6,400</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Jul-16 to<br/>Aug-16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>0</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335509763345548777.post-69218347481978884242016-08-05T10:19:00.001-04:002016-08-05T10:19:23.341-04:00July 2016 Great Taste, Less Filling<p>I'm really enjoying the overwrought <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/08/03/tougher-bar-passage-standard-for-law-schools-sparks-objections/" target="_blank" title="WSJ">debate</a> over the ABA's proposed 75% rule and its impact on diversity. I predict the warring sides will study the issue until it goes away, ignoring the debt elephant in the room.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nehhH9rfnaw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm#ces_table1.r.1.1.2.4.1.1" target="_blank" title="BLS">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm</a></p>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#ffcc00" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: #ffffcc;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="40%">Not seasonally adjusted</td><td width="15%">July</td><td width="10%">2015</td><td width="20%">1,128,000</td><td width="15%"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2016</td><td>1,121,300</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2016</td><td>1,134,700</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,133,700</td><td>5,700</tr>
<tr><td>Seasonally adjusted</td><td>July</td><td>2015</td><td>1,118,900</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>May</td><td>2016</td><td>1,124,200</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>June</td><td>2016</td><td>1,124,100</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>July</td><td>2016</td><td>1,123,900</td><td>5,000</tr>
<tr><td>Change from Jun-16 to<br/>Jul-16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>-200</td></tr>
</tbody></table>PresTTTigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234948877140669412noreply@blogger.com1