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Aaron is the executive director for the AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence. He joined AccessLex Institute in June 2017 from Saint Louis University School of Law, where he was a member...

Debby is the Distinguished University Professor and John Deaver Drinko/Baker & Hostetler Chair Emerita at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Katya is director of prelaw advising at the Law School Admission Council. She joined LSAC in November 2020 after almost a decade in law school admissions at Seton Hall Law. Before joining...

Kimber is a criminal defense attorney who prioritizes protecting her client's rights at the firm she co-founded, Vanguard Advocates. Kimber is an active member of the Chicago legal community, taking on many...

Kyle served as Law School Transparency's executive director from 2009 to 2022. He co-founded the organization with Patrick Lynch in 2009 and ran the organization until its acquisition by LSAC in 2022...

Mike is the founder of Spivey Consulting Group, which specializes in law school admissions and law school consulting. Before founding Spivey Consulting, Mike was a senior administrator at the law schools of...

A FRESH START Much has been written about how law schools, NALP, and U.S. News calculate various metrics, especially the "employment rate." Much has also been written about rankings and their impact...

The LST Law School Reports suffer from a variety of limits and those using them need to be conscious of what the reports do and do not mean. Many of these problems...

This website uses a variety of data sources to produce the most comprehensive collection of post-graduation employment data ever compiled and published on a school-by-school basis. Depending on the year, we collected...

The ABA accreditation standards require that each law school publish cost of attendance (COA) data. However, there is no standard method of creating, organizing, or publishing the figures. Moreover, a school's estimated...

Prelaw students needing to borrow money to attend law school traditionally consider three types of loans: Direct Loans, Direct PLUS loans, and private loans. These loans differ on a number of terms...

INTRODUCTION TO LRAPS Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) are offered by some schools to help graduates with low incomes manage their debts. Traditionally, schools offer these programs only to graduates working legal...

While the electives for the first year of law school may vary somewhat from school to school, students at almost every law school are required to take the same core first year...

Unlike most undergraduate courses, many of your law school courses will be graded on a curve. Sometimes grades are assigned to a pre-determined distribution, e.g. 30% A's, 40% B's, and 30% C's...

ABA-approved schools share considerable similarities with one another when it comes to the basic model for delivering legal education. However, there are considerable differences in size, location, culture, incoming class numbers, and...