Law deans may lose sleep over the U.S. News & World Report’s law school rankings, but those annual numbers have little impact on the decision-making of aspiring lawyers, according to a new study by two law professors.
Their study found little to no correlation between ranking changes and the behavior of applicants. That is, schools that jumped in the rankings didn’t generally bring in stronger classes, and those that fell didn’t necessarily enroll weaker ones.
Read more about the study.
From the legal industry:
The LSAT’s next round of testing will be the last time logic games are included … In a rare move, a federal judge criticized conservative SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito for allowing provocative flags to fly outside his houses … Milberg Coleman said it unknowingly filed fraudulent claims in a $5.6 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard … DLA Piper must turn over internal records detailing past pregnancy discrimination complaints to one of its ex-lawyers who claimed she was fired for seeking maternity leave … FTX’s bankruptcy lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell were not complicit in the fraud that caused the crypto company to collapse, a report found … Former Texas bankruptcy judge David Jones asked Jackson Walker to make a “untruthful” statement about his romance with one of its partners, the law firm alleges.
Moves:
In New York …
Michael Holston, the former general counsel at General Electric, will join Paul Weiss as a partner … Simpson Thacher added Chris Evans on its fund transactions team from Blackstone … Bracewell picked Nicole Boeckmann as a partner in its government enforcement and investigations practice. She previously was chief of the Long Island division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York … Dechert added fund formation partner Gerald Brown from Fried Frank … Womble Bond Dickinson brought on capital markets partner Louis Froelich. He previously was at hedge fund Two Sigma.
In Washington, D.C. …
White & Case hired David Lim as a partner. He was co-director of the DOJ’s Task Force KleptoCapture, which enforces sanctions, export restrictions and other measures against Russia … Mayer Brown brought on Isaac Maron as a partner in the tax practice. He returns to the firm from Latham … Davis Wright Tremaine picked up advertising partner Kristi Wolff from Kelley Drye & Warren, where she led the FDA practice group … Boies Schiller Flexner hired IP litigation partners Ryan Dykal, Jordan Bergsten and Mark Schafer from Shook Hardy. … Judy Krieg, who was joint head of the fraud, bribery and corruption division at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, joined DLA Piper as a partner in its white collar, investigations and government enforcement practice.
In Orlando …
Greenberg Traurig picked up labor and employment partner Alicia Chiu from Jackson Lewis.
In San Francisco …
Former California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health attorney Melissa Peters joined Nixon Peabody’s labor and employment practice as a partner.
In Palo Alto …
John Bostic, who helped prosecute the criminal fraud case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, joined Cooley as a litigation partner … DLA Piper hired John Hutar as a corporate partner from Goodwin.
And more …
Littler hired partners Briana Swift in Seattle and Kelly Cardin in New York City. Swift joins from K&L Gates and Cardin joins from Ogletree Deakins, where she was co-chair of the pay equity practice group.
