The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law has introduced innovations that have allowed it to avoid many of the pitfalls detailed in [critical] articles....
In the last six months, the college of law’s efforts have resulted in four top 20 rankings....
Utah law students contributed 47,375 hours of formal public service through a nearly unlimited array of pro bono, clinical and think tank opportunities....
[T]he college of law has increased scholarship funding in the last seven years by an astounding 288 percent....
The graduating class of 2011 was 28th in the country in long-term, J.D.-required employment....
We are committed to helping our graduates address a wide variety of unmet legal needs....
All that economoic mumbo jumbo about the American legal market being saturated and there being fundamental changes? Well, that don't apply to us Utah people because LOOK AT THE PRO BONO HOURS AND SCHOLARSHIP MONEY.
As a real working lawyer at a mid-sized firm, Mr. Anderson likely has many superior uses for his time. To spend it penning brochure propaganda is a task necessitating a thanks from anyone who cares about bilking the next generation of schmoes. Mr. Anderson is likely an intelligent man and I highly doubt he actually believes the University of Utah is "above" all that nasty-wasty behavior that's enriches the Lord class, especially based on slapping some new programs on the roster and throwing statistics and bogus rankings at the wall.
Utah projects to have 300 job openings for lawyers every year with 400+ people passing the Utah bar exam, while Utah still charges 18k/36k for instate/out-of-state respectively. So...Utah's doingsomething right.
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