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As I mentioned in my last post, Dean David Van Zandt of the Northwestern University School of Law came up with his own ranking of law schools based on the number of graduates named to Super Lawyers adjusted to reflect class size (using 1999 enrollment figures).
Now Brian Leiter’s Law School Report blog takes a crack at it. His ranking is also based on the number of graduates named to Super Lawyers plus some sort of weighted average formula which I frankly don’t understand. What both rankings have in common is that they make adjustments based on class size. But they reach very different results.
For example, Leiter’s top ten list is missing three schools that were in Van Zandt’s top ten. Texas, number 3 according to Leiter, isn’t even in Van Zandt’s top 14 (why 14? I have no idea. That’s where his ranking ends on the ABL post)
The point is that simply applying a weighted average based on class size doesn’t magically produce a “more valid ranking.” I’ve seen three weighted average rankings adjusted for class size so far (including the test we ran prior to publishing our list) and the results have been all over the board.
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These headlines appeared on a single page (B5) today in our hometown newspaper, the Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune:
Trial Opens in New Year’s killing
Dad charged with killing his son
Sexual assault after concert
Police seek clues in fatal shooting of 23-year-old
Sex assault suspect charged
Gang stabbing brings guilty plea
The advertising on the page: Three ads for funeral and cremation services.
I found this site vaguely amusing, although morbid 
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Malcom Gladwell, author of the The Tipping Point and Blink has a new book, Outliers: The Story Of Success. We particularly enjoyed the chapter, “The Three Lessons of Joe Flom.” Flom, as many of you know, is the last living named partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, and a perennial name on the New York Metro Super Lawyers list and has been a Top 100 honoree as well. His story is the stuff of legend and Gladwell does his typical expert job telling it.
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An item in today’s New Jersey Law Journal daily news alert is potentially misleading and needs clarification. The Journal reports:
COURT LIKELY TO EASE, NOT LIFT, ITS BAN ON COMPARATIVE LAWYER ADVERTISING
New Jersey’s Supreme Court seems poised to alter its current outright prohibition on advertising in which lawyers compare their abilities to others, probably by requiring that such ads include caveats to potential clients. The Court wants to create a “sensibly balanced rule,” Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said Wednesday at a hearing on whether lawyer should be able, within limits, to tout their ratings in publications like Super Lawyers Best Lawyers. But it was clear from the tenor of the arguments and the justices’ occasional remarks that comparative advertisements will likely have to be accompanied by some form of disclaimer that “super lawyer” or “best lawyer” designations do not have the Court’s blessing.
Reading this, one might infer that lawyers are currently banned from advertising in, or mentioning selection to Super Lawyers (or Best Lawyers) in their advertising because of the comparative advertising rule. That is not the case. Over the past four years, hundreds of New Jersey lawyers have advertised in New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine, or have mentioned the Super Lawyers honor in their advertising or promotional materials. Not a single one of them has been disciplined, or threatened with discipline for doing so. The same can be said of the thousands of lawyers nationwide who advertise or mention their selection to Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers has been around since 1991. In those 18 years, no court or discipline authority has ever prohibited lawyers from advertising in or about Super Lawyers.
So, New Jersey lawyers and reporters, please note: There is no ban on Super Lawyers or Best Lawyers advertising. Never has been and, as long as the First Amendment is around, there never will be.
The only thing the New Jersey Supreme Court has banned is the clumsy and misguided disaster known as Opinion 39 which itself sought to impose such a ban at the expense of free speech. Click here to read the court’s opinion and here to read the report of Judge Fall upon which the court based its ruling.
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