Depressing stuff
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Law Schools, Student Loans
How Are Lawyers Managing Their Law School Debt? Most Will Never Be Able To Pay It Off
How are you going to tackle your debt after graduation? We seriously hope you have a plan. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours
Lawyers Work Too Damn Much
That all-nighter you pulled is, in the grand scheme of things, truly meaningless.work- - Sponsored
AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work. -
Law Schools, Student Loans
Law Grad Drowning In Debt Tries To Sell Law Degree On Craigslist
Go on, make this lawyer an offer he can't refuse.
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Job Searches
Back In The Race: Why People Will Continue To Be Eager To Enter Amazon's Dark Jungle
Why do people strive to work for organizations (including law firms) that these employees know will require fierce competition and brutal hours? -
Biglaw, Drinking
Biglaw Wife Says Drunk Husband Spends So Much Time At Firm He Thinks His Office Is His Home
This is incredibly sad, and an indictment on the Biglaw way of life as a whole. -
Biglaw, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
11 Reasons Why It’s So Hard Being A Lawyer (Part II)
What do lawyers wish non-lawyers understood about them, and why is it so hard to be a lawyer in the first place? -
Biglaw
Gaslighting
Law firms "gaslight" young lawyers, according to lawyer turned therapist Will Meyerhofer -- they create a world where nothing makes sense, then studiously pretend it does. -
Law Schools, Student Loans
The Top 10 Law Schools With The Most Heavily Indebted Graduates
Which law school graduates have the most debt of all? U.S. News has a ranking for that! - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
In-House Counsel, Outsourcing
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
If you -- or your firm -- has been making a living doing routine legal work that could be performed just as easily (and far less expensively) elsewhere in the world, then be afraid. Be very afraid. -
Dewey & LeBoeuf, Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Dewey Wonder How The Owner Of This $4 Million Mansion Went Bankrupt?
Check out the magnificent mansion that helped drive a rainmaker into bankruptcy. -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf
Dewey Know A Third Former Partner Driven Into Personal Bankruptcy?
How does a rainmaker earning millions of dollars a year wind up in personal bankruptcy? -
Law Schools, Student Loans
Lawyers Struggle To Live 'Mortgaged' Lives Under The Crushing Weight Of Student Loans
Will the government be forced to grant loan forgiveness to all lawyers with unbearable debt burdens? -
Holidays and Seasons, Money, Rudeness, Student Loans
Season's Greetings From Your Loan Servicer
No one wants to hear from their loan servicer during the holidays. No one.
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Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50…
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How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
Sign up and join us for our CLE webinar. From importing your checklist to delivering the closing book, you can bolster client service throughout the…
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work.
Sponsored
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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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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
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Bar Exams, Money
This Bar Exam Failure Needs Your Help
Would you broadcast your bar exam failure to the world in order to get your bar costs covered? -
Biglaw, Minority Issues
Stat Of The Week: 3 Percent Of Biglaw Lawyers
A shocking statistic about Biglaw lawyers. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Graduate Of Elite Law School Forced To Live Off Welfare Due To Terrible State Of Job Market
Which law school left this woman penniless and destitute? -
Money, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Squeezing The Middle Class For Legal Fees Is Like Trying to Get Blood From A Turnip
What does the shrinking of the middle class mean for small-firm and solo lawyers? -
Crime, Job Searches, Public Interest
The Worst Job In The Legal Profession
It's not that the pay is necessarily worse -- though when all is said and done, it almost assuredly is -- it's that the job is a delicious cocktail of overwhelming responsibility and bad public policy. -
Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Student Loan Calculator Is Brutally Honest About Law School
Recently, The Washington Post published a student loan calculator to assist students out there in figuring out exactly how much they will suffer for their education. And the answer for lawyers is "much more than they can afford." -
Advertising, Biglaw, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Partner Issues, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Divorce Can Tragically End Your Biglaw Practice
The divorce started as amicably as one could reasonably hope for, but as distrust bubbled, the split escalated from a perfunctory proceeding into contentious brawl.