No kidding. It won't have much impact, however, since there are already multiple, established ranking sources (American Lawyer and Vault primarily), and it's less clear who the target audience will be: clients, current and prospective won't care, they have far more meaningful criteria to employ in evaluating law firms; perhaps law students considering job offers, though U.S. News's timing, given the state of the legal market, isn't, shall we say, ideal; and perhaps navel-gazing lawyers.
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