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Scott Jaschik's "Goofing Off in Law School" in Inside HIgherEd News documents what many of us had only suspected - that there is a marked tendency for third-year law students to slack off in that third year of law school. Not that any of us at Between Lawyers did anything like that. No sirree.

I do remember an early morning class I had in my third year where on the last day of classes before the exam (the day you found out what was going to be covered on the exam) I noticed quite a few people were shaking hands with people they hadn't realized were even on the class roster because they hadn't seen each other all semester. In other words, I don't think that this story points to a new phenomenon or is symptomatic of a "new generation of law students."

I'd be curious to learn the correlation between these stats and time spent looking for a job, interviewing and working part-time jobs during the third year.