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Law Schools, Money, Reader Polls, Student Loans, Trendspotting
Why Take Out Student Loans When You Can Finance Law School as a 'Sugar Baby'?
Go get a sugar daddy or a sugar momma to pay for your law school tuition -- because what else are you going to do with yourself? -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
Gradenfreude: Escaping the Seventh Circle of Retail Hell
Wherein a disgruntled law grad quits his crappy retail job, only to find another crappy retail job. - 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… -
Craigslist, Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
Are You Desperate Enough to Pay for Legal Experience?
If you were unable to get a law job, would you be willing to pay a fee to get legal experience?
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Student Loans
Law Students Plan Preemptive Strike Against Their School's 'Regular' Tuition Increase
Can students stop an unjustified tuition hike? -
Biglaw, Citigroup, Depositions, Howrey LLP, Money, Partner Issues
Quote of the Day: Howrey Going To Void These Loans?
A former Howrey partner alleges fraud by a major bank. -
Football, Job Searches, Law Schools, Sports, Student Loans
Gradenfreude: The Legal Profession Has the Luck of the Irish
A disgruntled law school graduate compares the state of the legal profession to the Fighting Irish's lackluster performance in the BCS bowl game. -
Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Ex-Law Student Auctions Off His Name to Pay Off Loan Debt
Why not sell the rights to your name to pay off your law school loan debt? Great idea, nothing bad could happen because of this! -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, Student Loans
Medical Schools Make Reforms While Law Schools Make Excuses
One university helps its medical students while continuing to fleece its law students... - Sponsored
How Generative AI Will Improve Legal Service Delivery
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Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Stop Handing Out Student Loans Like Candy, Or Else You'll Get Sued Like Sallie Mae
Has the day of reckoning finally come for student loan companies? Sallie Mae just got sued.... -
Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
How the Heck Will You Pay Your Law School Loans After You've Been Kicked Off Income-Based Repayment?
Happy holidays from your law school loan servicers, you've been kicked off IBR! -
Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits
How Are Managing Partners Feeling About 2013?
On the whole, pretty good. But there are some warning signs too. -
Politics, Student Loans
Is Writing A Best Seller The Only Way To Pay For Law School?
I'll say it again, making law school affordable means that you shouldn't have to sell a book in order to pay off your debts... -
2nd Circuit, ACLU, Biglaw, China, Insider Trading, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Prisons, Religion, Sentencing Law, Solo Practitioners, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Student Loans, Weddings
Morning Docket: 12.05.12
* Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which is the fairest firm of them all? According to the 2012 Acritas Brand Index survey, the current leader of the Global 100 is the most powerful Biglaw brand for the fifth year in a row. [American Lawyer]
* But that might not last for long, considering the dilemma Baker & McKenzie is facing when it comes to joining the Shanghai Bar Association in China. The firm is one of the first to indicate that it’ll take the plunge. [Wall Street Journal]
* Thanks to the Second Circuit, Rajat Gupta will be a free man on bail pending the appeal of his insider trading conviction. We wonder what Benula Bensam would have to say about this new twist. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Jason Smiekel, the lawyer who pleaded guilty in a murder-for-hire plot involving a former client, was sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison. The things men will do for HHHBs. [Chicago Tribune]
* Student loan payments: coming to a paycheck deduction near you! Congress is considering an overhaul of the country’s student debt collection practices, and Rep. Tom Petri has some interesting ideas. [Bloomberg]
* The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is the latest school to hop aboard the solo practice incubator train, but graduates will have to rent their office space from the school. Nice. /sarcasm [National Law Journal]
* “We didn’t file this complaint lightly.” Sorry, Judge Norman, but as it turns out, you can’t just sentence a teenager to attend church for 10 years as a condition of parole without pissing off the ACLU. [Tulsa World]
* When your alterations cost more than your wedding gown, it’s pretty much a given that you’ll have some problems — ones worth suing over, if you’re a true bridezilla (like moi). [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Student Loans
Chuck Klosterman Becomes the Latest Human to Misunderstand the Point of Law School
The Ethicist invents a rosy scenario in which law schools are meeting their moral responsibilities. But the facts of the law school business model point towards more sinister motives... -
Abortion, Crime, Holidays and Seasons, John Roberts, Non-Sequiturs, Student Loans
Non-Sequiturs: 11.28.12
* Allowing abortions only in cases where the life of the mother is at stake doesn’t actually protect the life of the mother. [Slate] * Chief Justice Roberts decided that living in a glass house shouldn’t prevent him from throwing a few stones. [Atlantic] * It’s that time of year when we start seeing lists of things to buy for the lawyers in your life. [Constitutional Daily] * You realize that people aren’t actually going to pay these loans back, you know. [Economix / New York Times] * Wow, there was a whole day in New York City where nobody got shot, stabbed, or raped. [Reuters] * While you contemplate living in a dangerous city, check out this list of most dangerous campuses. [Business Insider] * Hopefully you guys have noticed Above the Law in the News category on the ABA Blawg 100, but don’t forget to look at all the different sections and vote for your favorite sites. [ABA Journal] -
Money, Student Loans
Gradenfreude: Loan Debt Repayment for Law Grads Is a Scam
An underemployed law grad contemplates the government's loan debt repayment schemes, and doesn't like it one bit. Is it a scam? -
Career Alternatives, Career Files, Law Schools, Pre-Law
From the Career Files: How To Tell Your Parents You're Not Going to Law School
Are you being pressured into law school by your parents? Here are some tips for making the case against law school. -
Accounting / Accountants, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Student Loans, Unemployment
Dear Prudence: My Husband Is Contemplating Ruining Our Lives By Going To Law School
Dear Prudence sets the record straight for the wife of a future law student when it comes to student debt and entry-level jobs. -
Barack Obama, Election 2012, Politics, Student Loans
At The Hofstra Debate, Both Candidates Dodge Student Debt Issue
The presidential debate last night featured no new ideas about dealing with student debt. -
Interview Stories, Job Searches, Student Loans
Gradenfreude: My Interview Horror Story (Or, How I Underwhelmed A Hiring Partner With My Law Degree)
Tristan Taylor Thomas has a no good, very bad, horrible day at a job interview...