The USNWR rankings have leaked, and our local lawyer factory is holding steady at number 78 - still comfortably in the second tier, but down slightly from last year's 75. Impressively, Boyd currently has the fourth best legal writing program in the nation, and the tenth best dispute resolution program. Boyd's part-time program came in at 21 out of the 50 schools ranked.
Boyd also made the list of the most diverse law schools, with Asian-Americans making up the bulk of their minority population at 10%.
Boyd's 25th-75th percentile GPA was 3.18-3.66, and their LSAT was 155-160. The 2009 acceptance rate was 22%, and the student/faculty ratio was 16.8/1.
Boyd reported 86.7% of grads employed at graduation, with 97.8% employed nine months after graduation. Bar passage was reported at 81.5%, with the overall passage rate for the Nevada bar being 77%.
All in all, we'd say it's a pretty good showing. Congrats, BSL!
I have yet to read a Boyd grad's legal writing and think "hey, this is pretty good stuff." If you catch a non-Boyd, or honest Boyd, law clerk in a bar after a few rounds, they'll tell you the same thing. Aweful. USNWR is full of shit.
ReplyDeleteWell, Anonymous, hopefully those Boyd grads at least know how to spell "awful." Unlike you . . .
ReplyDeleteMaybe 6:13 meant full of awe? Ya think?
ReplyDeleteI think 6:13 went to an unacredited law school and is jealous because he couldn't get into Boyd. Boyd students can definately write!!! Any district court judge will tell you that.
ReplyDeleteYes, 8:17 PM, but I sure hope they spell "definitely" correctly - to do otherwise would be plain "aweful."
ReplyDeleteQ: How many Boyd Grads does it take to play tag?
A: One.
Yes, Boyd grads can definitely write well...spell check...maybe not. Want to discuss bad writing, then all you have to do is look at the lawyers in their 40's or any work product from a Plaintiff shop or family law attorney (obviously written by a paralegal). Horrible is an understatement.
ReplyDeleteWow, UNLV only fell three spots in the rankings this year?! I guess that's pretty good.
ReplyDeleteStill, the once upward momentum has officially changed directions, as predicted by many. I'm fairly certain that all of the budget cuts, the doubling of tuition, and the professor attrition will lead to continued regression over the next few years.
No matter how well Boyd performs, though, it will always be a "Boise State" among American law schools. Allow me to use a college football analogy, since we're already talking about arbitrary ranking systems.
The older law schools, their graduates and USNews, much like the bigger conferences and the BCS and sportwriters, will always shit on and look down upon the Boyds simply because of their lack of tradition, alumni resources, and their less-than-ideal location. If Boyd wasn't only 12 years old and it wasn't located in such a lame ass legal community (much like BSU being in the lame-ass WAC), I feel like it would get a lot more support and respect.
...but dont forget, the puppy ("society") was just a dog....but industry my friends....that was a revolution....
ReplyDelete8:58 is the winner of this thread.
ReplyDeleteDon't have an ax to grind against Boyd but why did we need a law school? How much does the State of Nevada pay to have a law school? Before Boyd those who were motivated went to McGeorge or California Western. Now the bar is given twice a year so the hordes of California lawyers who can't make a living can come here. We would all be so much better off if they gave scholarships and sent folks out of town for a law degree like they did before 1997-98 (it was called
ReplyDeleteWICHIE, I think). Sooner or later this town won't be able to support the 150 to 200 new lawyers who graduate but never leave Las Vegas.
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ReplyDelete4:11 - WTF?!
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IMHO legal writing skill is lost on many attorneys--not just limited to Boyd grads and grads from other lower level Cali schools. Other than the ability to Bluebook and perhaps organize thoughts along IRAC, I question whether legal writing programs at law schools are really the problem. Instead, I think law schools just inherent many poor writers from undergrad and the like. Garbage in, garbage out--it ain't the law school's fault really.
ReplyDeleteGo Boyd!
ReplyDelete"Inherent" vs. "inherit"
ReplyDelete"Definately" vs. "definitely"
"Aweful" vs. "awful"
If only there were some sort of biblical truism I could provide here. Something about motes and planks in eyes. Oh well.
Law school was many years ago and no longer factors into my career path so I don't have an axe to grind, but I am consistently unimpressed with Boyd grads when I encounter them.
ReplyDeleteI also strongly agree with 10:42 p.m.
I'm just generally unimpressed with any attorneys I come across, especially the old ones. I appreciate the young attorneys who come out of programs that teach them structured legal writing. God Lord, you should see some of the garbage the old guard produces. You need Ariadne's string just to navigate through that mess they call "legal writing".
ReplyDelete@10:33,
ReplyDeleteBut are you unimpressed with attorneys in general? It's been my experience that, as with any large population, characteristics follow a normal distribution. That is, about 2 out of every 3 attorneys hover around average. Only 1 out of every 1000 is brilliant.
I often have heard
ReplyDeleteYou can't polish a turd.
Affirmation, my law school sucks. Sucked then, sucks now, and will continue to blow. Just continues to make it painful to write the damn check every month to pay off the loans I took out.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, good mentor post law school provided a solid foundation for the real practice of law.
Definitely not feeling an ounce of love toward that hell hole.
I should have been able to test out of law school.
ReplyDeleteThis afternoon, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled 4-2 to affirm the order removing Amber Candelaria from the Justice Court ballot.
ReplyDeleteSorry Amber; but I'd be happy to have you over for a naked romp.
ReplyDeletere: Amber
ReplyDeletewow, that was fast
re: Amber
ReplyDeleteyeah that was indeed a fast ruling from the Supremes...
I imagine all it took was Amber walking in the room for the Supremies to say "Ah Hellll no!"
ReplyDeleteWho were the two idiot justices voting in her favor?
ReplyDeletePolsenberg is on here ??
ReplyDeleteHoly shit !
That's frickin HILarious!!
10:04,
ReplyDeletePolsenberg loves Wild Wild Law. He was helping us with a trial and we had like a 20-minute discussion about a post.
http://HalfAssLawyers.com
ReplyDeleteHalf Ass Lawyers
I'm getting the impression that the only people that post on here are attorneys that have billables (i.e. insurance defense).
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