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The Access Group, a nonprofit representing 200-some law schools, has scooped up Lawyer Metrics, the group announced last week. Lawyer Metrics is a youngish company started by two professors in 2011.
The metrics company is best known for helping firms hire and retain legal talent, but how will the law schools put it to work? We have a few guesses.
Here's some quick and dirty background on Lawyer Metrics and the Access Group. Lawyer Metrics was founded half a decade ago by Indian University law professor William Henderson and Penn. State political science and law prof. Christopher Zorn. The Access Group is a large nonprofit made up of ABA-accredited law schools. The Access Group helps law schools in research and policy, financial aid, and admissions. Lawyer Metrics is primarily known for working with firms -- though they've also worked with non-firms.
But, Henderson told the ABA Journal, they've always wanted to be part of a nonprofit. Now they are.
The Access Group's announcement is short on details, but we've got a few ideas of how the magic of statistical analysis could be used by law schools:
Editor's Note, December 24th, 2015: This post has been corrected to indicate that Lawyer Metrics was founded in 2011, not 2005, and that Christopher Zorn is a professor of political science and law, not statistics.
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