Welcome back to “Ahead of the Curve.” I’m Christine Charnosky, legal education reporter for Law.com. As always, please share your thoughts and feedback with me at [email protected].

I cover 193 American Bar Association-accredited U.S. law schools—that’s a lot of deans. The average current tenure of serving deans is 4.18 years, and the median is 3.5 years, according to Rosenblatt’s Deans Database.