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Could Law Schools PLEASE Stop Whining About The Nine Months After Graduation Statistic? You Sound Like Babies.
Law schools don't seem to care about employment along the same timeline as loan officers... -
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Nazis! Sex Slaves! Debt!
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
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If You Don't 'Like' Your Student Loan Servicer on Facebook, You Will Default
You better follow your loan servicer on social media sites if you don't want your credit to be ruined!
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Biglaw Perk Watch: Tuition Reimbursement
Want to go to law school for free? Get your employer to pay for it! -
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From the Career Files: Law School Scholarships & Grants -- How to Finance Your Legal Education
Let me say this in all caps so you can hear me: DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL WITHOUT A CLEAR PLAN TO FUND YOUR EDUCATION!!! -
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Morning Docket: 04.17.13
* “Yes, it is true.” Justice Scalia admitted in a speech this week that he was guided to the right by his colleague, Justice Thomas, who’s apparently “a very stubborn man.” [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* It’s about time to say so long to your ticking tax time bomb: in President Obama’s proposed budget for 2014, he eliminates taxes on forgiven loan debt under all IBR plans. [Bucks / New York Times]
* “I am the luckiest man in the world.” Larry Macon, an Akin Gump partner from Texas, had nearly finished the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded, but lived to tell his tale. [Am Law Daily]
* Because sometimes you need to steal $374K worth of copy toner. This ex-Fried Frank staffer pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and is looking at up to 15 years in jail. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Judge Victor Marrero isn’t a fan of SEC policy, but when it comes to this civil insider trading case, SAC Capital may get to walk away without admitting or denying anything. [DealBook / New York Times]
* This Yale Law graduate is suing Brooks Brothers over a three-button suit, and wants $2K for the 90 minutes he spent arguing over it in the store. Who is the $1320/hour man? [New York Daily News]
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The Decision: Tempted By The 'T14'
Please advise three more prospective law students on where they should go. They've gotten into some great schools, but greatness isn't cheap. -
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The Decision: Should I Go To Law School At All? Plus George Washington v. William & Mary
Help advise two prospective law students: one who's choosing between GW and William and Mary, and one who wonders whether she should go to law school at all. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
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The Decision: UVA v. Northwestern v. Minnesota (With Varying Scholarship Amounts)
Time to advise another prospective law student. This applicant is choosing between three great schools that are offering him very different deals. -
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The Decision: NYU Law v. UVA Law at Half-Price Tuition?
Where would you go to law school if you were in this student's shoes? -
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A Trend in the Making: Falling Law School Tuition? Let's Make It Happen, People!
Does the law of gravity apply to law school tuition? Shockingly enough, the answer might be yes. -
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Need a Rural Lawyer? Why Not Use a Quasi-Indentured Servitude Plan?
Good plan or great plan? It depends on if you want to live in the middle of nowhere. -
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If You Want To Own A Home, Don't Borrow Money To Go To Law School
You can have a J.D. or a house but not both.
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Lawsuit of the Day: Nobody Puts Faruqi in the Corner
Nobody puts Juan Monteverde in the corner. A boutique law firm and one of its partners hit back -- hard -- against an ex-associate's salacious allegations. -
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Morning Docket: 03.27.13
* With SCOTUS justices questioning standing in the Prop 8 case, and one even stating that gay marriage is newer than cell phones and the internet, you can guess where the decision is headed. [New York Times]
* “This badge of inequality must be extinguished.” With men like Ted Olson and David Boies representing the plaintiffs in Prop 8, at least we can say that they fought the good fight. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* OMG, remember when DLA Piper allegedly overbilled a client and got dragged through the mud over scandalous emails? Now the firm says they were totally joking. So cray. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Less than a month after handing out pink slips across multiple offices, Patton Boggs named a new managing partner in New York who just so happens to be a Dewey defector. Ominous. [Am Law Daily]
* These are great tips on negotiating financial aid, but try this: tell admissions you’ll happily enroll elsewhere, and watch them throw cash at you. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* It looks like Paul Ceglia’s zany misadventures in being fired as a client by Biglaw firms and suing Facebook may finally be at an end thanks this scathing 155-page recommendation of dismissal. [CNET]
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Law Schools, Student Loans
State Comes Up With Quasi-Indentured Servant Plan For 16 Law Students
As long as we ignore Thirteenth Amendment concerns, this plan sounds great! -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2014 U.S. News Law School Rankings (The Second Tier)
Do you have something to say about your law school's U.S. News ranking? This is the place to do it! -
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Morning Docket: 03.14.13
* Celebrated litigator David Boies thinks the Supreme Court is going to rule in favor of gay marriage in a united front — which is helpful, since in March he’s arguing in favor of gay marriage in the Prop 8 case. [USA Today]
* “What we had to do was do more with less.” Archer & Greiner had to lay off 14 attorneys and 27 staffers thanks to the firm’s rapid overexpansion via mergers. This is why we can’t have nice things. [New Jersey Law Journal]
* In New York / Concrete jungle where dreams are made of / There’s nothing you can’t do / Now you’re in New York / Law deans will try to inspire you / But rankings will ruin you / Hear it for New York! [New York Law Journal]
* If you’d like to save the world by working a public-interest job, you’d better consider Penn Law. Its LRAP now covers all IBR loan payments over 10 years for a total savings of up to $140,000. [National Law Journal]
* But then again, if you’re not interested in public-interest work, you can always get a temp job, where you’ll allegedly make as much as “a mid-level associate at a small or medium firm.” [U.S. News & World Report]
* Because Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer was called out by a judge for a performance that was almost as piss poor in his client’s in Liz & Dick, he contacted a local firm to step in and assist him. [L.A. Now / Los Angeles Times]
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Books, Boutique Law Firms, Labor / Employment, Lawsuit of the Day, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Student Loans, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Day: A Super-Salacious Suit Against A 'Legend' of the Bar
If these allegations are true, this is a very sad and ugly story. -
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For-Profit Law Schools Offer Miniscule 'Refund' As A Publicity Stunt
A terrible idea designed to entrap those who are bad at math? Sounds like the perfect "for profit" law school gambit...