RALEIGH — The Campbell University School of Law will no longer participate in the US News and World Report’s Best Law Schools ranking.

Dean J. Rich Leonard announced the decision to faculty, staff and students on Monday in an email. Leonard’s statement cited concerns with both the ranking’s purpose and methodologies, among others.

The statement follows: “The Campbell Law School faculty has decided not to participate this year in the US News and World Report’s Best Law Schools rankings. We are not opposed to objective rankings, but the reputational aspect of the US News rankings has always undervalued strong regional law schools. Additionally, the rankings do not sufficiently consider the most critical factors for prospective students, such as bar passage and employment outcomes. We believe objective evaluations that value factors like these better serve prospective students.

“As an example of the difference between objective and subjective rankings, in 2015

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Bankruptcy LawyersFile Chapter 7 Chapter in Atlanta with ZERO MONEY DOWN. Or, why not enhance and work reporting, exposing and designing well being operations and facilities-educating and enabling and making these to be easily accessible to the armies of the poor Africans? My point: African individuals want to start to speak from being active in our milieu than trying to precise themselves immaculately and colloquially in medium equivalent to these, thus exposing their weaknesses and lack of knowledge as to what they actually do not know to one and all.

The police and plenty of authorities sectors are affected by ‘tribalism’ in hiring and functioning of these institutions. There’s a lot corruption, that many individuals are left bamboozled, gawking in horror as our bothers and sisters give themselves to selling out their people, and never caring a rat’s ass about their actions and their outcomes. We’ve a very callous elite which …

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By Connie Chang, Knowledge Management Research Analyst at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

Editor’s Note: We are happy to post two takes on a recent course on “Managing Your Work Environment” offered by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and facilitated by Judith Millesen, Ph.D.  Both authors were recipients of grants from the Private Law Librarians and Information Professionals (PLLIP) section of AALL.  Thank you to Connie and Janet for taking the time to share their thoughts on their experiences and takeaways from the course.

Thanks to a grant from the Private Law Librarians & Information Professionals Special Interest Section (PLLIP-SIS), I attended the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) course, “Managing Your Work Environment.”  The course focused on team development and interpersonal skills.  It was held over three weeks (Sept. 13 to Oct. 4, 2022).  There was also some pre-course work on the importance of having a growth mindset

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Dive Briefs:

  • The Campbell University School of Law announced this week it will not participate in US News & World Report’s Best Law Schools rankings, joining many other institutions spurning the list over equity-related concerns.
  • Unlike law schools that initially rejected the rankings, which included those at Yale and Harvard universities, Campbell’s school fell toward the bottom of US News’ index.
  • Experts have said mid- and low-tier law schools have more to lose by joining the rankings revolt, as the higher-placed schools have well-known reputations and will likely suffer little fallout from their decisions.

Dive Insights:

Ivy League institutions Yale and Harvard shook the higher education world in mid-November when they said they would no longer submit data to US News for its influential rankings.

While colleges often tout their high placement

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The ABA TechReport combines data from the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report with expert analysis, observations, and predictions from leaders in the legal technology field. Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned!

As the world emerges from a pandemic that forced the world to change, many lawyers are questioning whether the technological changes we have made in our practices will be permanent or revert to past habits. The 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Reports provide insights into these questions so that firms can best position themselves for the future.

The research, conducted by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center is contained in five volumes of organized responses, and the resulting data is helpful to many firms of differing sizes. The published results represent one of the most comprehensive technology surveys of law firms available. The insights contained

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