From J.D. to Food Stamps: The Personal Cost of Going to Law School
A recent grad qualifies for food stamps, and the other costs of going to law school...
Barrister’s Ball Blowout: A Night of Booze, Barf, and Blood (and B*tching About the Budget)
Bleeding, barfing, and breaching contracts is no way to go through life...
Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Celebrating With Alcohol? Oh Noes!
I get that the legal profession has a drinking problem, if you will, but today we have an example of how a law school should not go about keeping young, would-be lawyers off the bottle. Imagine you are a 1L. You just finished your first set of finals of your first year of law school, […]
Small Firms, Big Lawyers: Enclosed Please Find … No Reason to Hire Me
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Small Firms, Big Lawyers, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. As the owner of a small law firm, I’m always surprised at how many blind résumés I receive in the mail. First of all, who even uses mail anymore? Does anyone seriously think […]