{"id":115130,"date":"2025-04-16T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/law-school-ranking-chaos-and-biglaw-trump-deals-turn-sour\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:02:57","slug":"law-school-ranking-chaos-and-biglaw-trump-deals-turn-sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/law-school-ranking-chaos-and-biglaw-trump-deals-turn-sour\/","title":{"rendered":"Law School Ranking Chaos And Biglaw Trump Deals Turn Sour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US News and World Report released its most recent law school rankings<\/a> with a side of chaos<\/a>, but the big takeaway is the scrambling and erosion of the \u201cT14\u201d as an organizing concept. Is it time to dismiss the rankings as arbitrary<\/a>? At least until law schools agree to cooperate again. <\/p>\n

Also, Surrendergate continues and the \u201cwe\u2019ll do some pro bono for veterans\u201d deal has turned dramatically, with the White House now claiming the authority to \u201cassign\u201d Biglaw firms to work on administration projects. Sound familiar?<\/a> Along the way, firms are starting to lose senior lawyers<\/a> fulfilling critical firm roles<\/a> while the most recent defectors<\/a> alienate the overwhelming majority of their team<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Finally, the Supreme Court has issued some unanimous rebukes in defense of due process<\/a> and the administration does not seem to care<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Law School Ranking Chaos And Biglaw Trump Deals Turn Sour<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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US News and World Report released its most recent law school rankings<\/a> with a side of chaos<\/a>, but the big takeaway is the scrambling and erosion of the \u201cT14\u201d as an organizing concept. Is it time to dismiss the rankings as arbitrary<\/a>? At least until law schools agree to cooperate again. <\/p>\n

Also, Surrendergate continues and the \u201cwe\u2019ll do some pro bono for veterans\u201d deal has turned dramatically, with the White House now claiming the authority to \u201cassign\u201d Biglaw firms to work on administration projects. Sound familiar?<\/a> Along the way, firms are starting to lose senior lawyers<\/a> fulfilling critical firm roles<\/a> while the most recent defectors<\/a> alienate the overwhelming majority of their team<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Finally, the Supreme Court has issued some unanimous rebukes in defense of due process<\/a> and the administration does not seem to care<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Law School Ranking Chaos And Biglaw Trump Deals Turn Sour<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US News and World Report released its most recent law school rankings with a side of chaos, but the big takeaway is the scrambling and erosion of the \u201cT14\u201d as an organizing concept. Is it time to dismiss the rankings as arbitrary? At least until law schools agree to cooperate again. Also, Surrendergate continues and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rank-ranking-rate-rating-employee-team-teamwork-620x454-RtgNVh.jpeg?fit=620%2C454&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}