It was a Good week for…
Self-imposed Transparency, after the University of Chicago released detailed career placement information on its website. The information, which is for classes 2008, 2009 and 2010, includes number of grads employed by practice type, whether bar passage is required, salary information and geographic location. Yale Law School already publishes similar data, and of course the numbers look pretty good for both schools — only 2 of 195 2010 grads were looking for a job nine months after graduation.
Twitter pre-law nerds, after the website, Onlinecollege.org, published a list of 60 essential twitter feeds for law school applicants. It includes 20 law schools, LSAT advice sites and The National Jurist. We thought we were assume.
It was a BAD week for …
Salary privacy, after the salaries of every University of Texas law professor were made public. The release of the data came after faculty discord at the University of Texas got so bad during finals week that the president of the university had to force dean Larry Sager to resign immediately. Sager had been giving out forgivable loans — $4.6 million worth — to attract new talent. But when other faculty got wind of the payments — including $500,000 to Sager himself — some of them wanted a piece of the pie. A lawsuit eventually led to the release of all the compensation data.Â
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