Who is the fairest journal of all?

The immediate response would be Law Review...

I was at a law school social gathering not too long ago and this very subject came up. My school has 3 types of journals. First is the Law Review, second are the journals who publish on paper but aren't as "prestigious" as Law Review and third are the journals who publish online (lets call those "quasi journals"). Now, the social gathering had participants from all three types of journals and all three voiced their opinions.

LR said that LR isn't all it's cracked up to be and that some of its members have their heads up their asses, but that it certainly was better than the other types of journals (in not so many words).

Paper said that her journal was under-appreciated by the administration. She gets a decent amount of money, but it isn't anything compared to what LR gets. She is proud of her journal and believes that her journal does loads to make this school what it is.

Quasi said that this school is getting better because of it's reputation of having lots of secondary journals. We have 6 journals (I think) and half of them are quasi journals. All three have published only one volume. One of those three is impossible to find online (not a good sign considering that is the only way it was published). Another's last issue was in 2003. The third allowed two dingbats onto its masthead. I take that back. Only one is a dingbat. The other is a douchebag. Quasi admits that people who consider these journals to be a great addition to our school probably do not know that they are only published online or that they have only published one volume. However, she is steadfast in her belief that there is little difference between LR and the quasi journals. She is severely mistaken.

Until recently I believed that there wasn't much difference between LR and the paper journals. That was before a certain someone took over leadership of one of the paper journals. An incompetent leader does not bode well for this journal's future and I'd be surprised if they published even one volume this year. Or, if indeed a volume is published, it will probably be because of this incompetent leader's sole work product. This leader cannot delegate and cannot multitask. Either a volume will be published and Leader's grades will severely suffer, or Leader will suffer a major breakdown and no volumes will be published. Maybe I should start a pool.

In my unbiased opinion (since I belong to no journals and do not wish to be part of any of them), I believe that although LR is a bit over-rated, a bit over-funded, and its members a bit over-idolized (especially by employers), it still is the fairest of them all.