Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve. I'm Christine Charnosky, legal education reporter for Law.com, and I'll be your host for this week's look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.

This week, we're back with another U.S. News & World Report education rankings update.

As always, please share your thoughts and feedback with me at [email protected].

U.S. News & World Report extended the deadline for law schools to submit data for this year's rankings to Friday, so this is it—but a lot of questions about which schools will actually submit, the details of the methodology changes and how the rankings will look won't be known till spring.