What is the Best Law School?
Can you imagine investing over $150,000 – one hundred and fifty thousand dollars – and devoting three years of your life on a legal education without finding out which law school offers the most value for the money? That is exactly what thousands of college graduates do every year. The MacCrate Report, officially “Legal Education and Professional Development – An Educational Continuum – Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap, The American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 1992”, (MacCrate) is a “must read” if you are in or considering law school. The report warns the potential applicant: “Prospective law students generally are not knowledgeable about the profession: what certain jobs entail; what different paths for entry into the profession may be; how students should prepare for their careers; and how law schools may differ in the preparation they offer. Law students tend to be passive consumers of legal educat
