Is this revelation in the New York Times about law school grade inflation the ultimate lawyer joke--on us? And maybe lawyers? One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. But it's not because they are all working harder.The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient. These include law schools like New York University and Georgetown, as well as Golden Gate University and Tulane University, which just announced the change this month.MeanwhileHarvard and Stanford, two of the top-ranked law schools, recently eliminated traditional grading altogether. Like Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, they now use a modified pass/fail system, reducing the...(Read Full Post)