The American Bar Association caused a minor stir in February when its House of Delegates voted to investigate U.S. News & World Report’s law schools rankings and the magazine’s new push to rate law firms.
The inquiry into the law firm rankings is still going on, but the committee charged with reviewing law school rankings has completed its work. Its brief report is not likely to tell critics anything they did not already know about how the rankings influence legal education, however. It concludes that the rankings have some negative effects on law schools, but there is little to be done about it.
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