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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;On Wednesday, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;US News&lt;/em&gt; officially released its 2010 law school rankings (though many readers got a sneak peak earlier in the week). Despite the attempt of perennial critic Brian Leiter to launch a bloggers&amp;#8217; boycott (&amp;#8220;The fact that this garbage appears in a major &#39;news&#39; magazine doesn&#39;t change the fact that it is garbage.&amp;#8221;), the blogosphere resounds with ranking rehash.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Above the Law is posting a series of open threads about closely-ranked schools; U.S. District Court Judge Louis&amp;nbsp;Pollak has published an article on &amp;#8220;Why Trying to Rank Law Schools Numerically Is a Non-productive Undertaking&amp;#8221;; and &amp;#8220;the absurdity of US News&amp;#8221; is discussed from the perspective of a political scientist who has studied its methodology. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In addition to the view that any law school rankings are by their nature &amp;#8220;ridiculous,&amp;#8221; specific criticisms of the &lt;i&gt;US News&lt;/i&gt; approach include undue emphasis on academic peer assessments, the extent to which the rankings depend on &amp;#8220;manipulable data&amp;#8221;, and the insufficient attention given to criteria that really matter&amp;#8212;i.e.,&amp;#8220;the perception of your potential future colleagues and employers.&amp;#8221; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;For critics in the latter camp, there is an alternative ranking that exclusively measures employability, as determined by law firm professionals directly involved in the assessment of law school graduates. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In any case, before you get too caught up in the griping and sniping, try to keep some perspective. While I&amp;#8217;m hardly one to dismiss the value of rankings, consider the words of one commenter on the WSJ&amp;#8217;s Law Blog: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;The obsession with &amp;#8216;prestige&amp;#8217; is why people hate lawyers. Don&amp;#8217;t go somewhere you&amp;#8217;ll be unhappy just for the sake of &amp;#8216;prestige,&amp;#8217; because you&amp;#8217;ll soon find that you hate lawyers too. Life is too short.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;- posted by vera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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On Wednesday, US News officially released its 2010 law school rankings (though many readers got a sneak peak earlier in the week). Despite the attempt of perennial critic Brian Leiter to launch a bloggers’ boycott (“The fact that this garbage appears in a major 'news' magazine doesn't change the fact that it is garbage.

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