Pre-laws
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Law Schools, Rankings
The Law Schools With The Lowest (And Highest) Acceptance Rates
Do you see your law school on either of these lists? -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers, Pre-Law
From The Career Files: How Can Pre-Laws Improve Their Writing Skills?
Here are some tips and tricks. - 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… -
Law Schools, LSAT
Toss Those Pencils, A Computerized LSAT Is Coming!
Whoa. This is a fantastic development.
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Law Schools
The Decision: Where Should A Professional Soccer Player Go To Law School?
Or should he go at all? -
Law Schools
The Decision: Full Scholarship, Location, Or Prestige?
Berkeley, Penn, or Harvard, at varying price points -- where would you go? -
Law Schools, Politics
Don't Go To Law School Because Of Trump
If you want to resist, there are other, less expensive ways to do it. -
Law Schools, Rankings
An Interesting New Set Of Law School Rankings
How does your law school fare under this metric? -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.24.17
* For those of you too busy this week to follow Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing, here’s a nice collection of the highlights by Benjamin Wallace-Wells. [New Yorker via How Appealing]
* SCOTUS confirmation hearings are often compared to kabuki theater; law professor cum novelist Jay Wexler reimagines the Gorsuch hearing as, well, actual kabuki theater. [McSweeney’s]
* Insider trading: it’s not entirely about the benjamins, as therapist and executive coach Andrew Snyder explains. [LinkedIn]
* Is the Second Circuit sitting on juicy information about President Trump’s ties to Russia? [WiseLawNY]
* Law school applicants with high LSAT scores: which schools do they favor? [SSRN]
* Speaking of legal education, what are the secrets to law school success? Vanderbilt 3L Niya McCray shares her thoughts. [Amazon (affiliate link)]
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Boutique Law Firms, Law Schools, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Different Students... Same Advice?
What would you say to a young person considering law school today? -
Law Schools, LSAT
Harvard Law School Will Cast A Wider Net This Fall; Which T14 Law Schools Will Follow?
How will the acceptance of the GRE affect economic mobility and diversity at our nation's top law schools? -
Law Schools, LSAT
Harvard Will Make It Easier For People Who Won't Get Into Harvard To Be Taken Advantage Of
There's value in making people jump through the LSAT hoop. -
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Law Schools
A Guide To Law School
Above the Law has taken some of our most popular and most helpful posts about law school, and put them into an eBook for you.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Biglaw, Law Schools
7 Bits Of Real Advice For High Schoolers Who Want To Be Lawyers
The REAL way to prepare your kid for a career in the law. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Law Schools, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Back In The Race: Will The $180K Biglaw Starting Salaries Attract A New Group Of Law School Lemmings?
News of the Biglaw salary increases is likely to attract a few people who would not have considered law school in the past. -
Job Searches, Law Schools
Caveat Venditor: Throwback To The Days Of Junk Employment Statistics
Deceptive statistics are not yet a thing of the past. -
Law Schools
4 More Types of People Who Should Not Go To Law School
In the wake of the latest U.S. News rankings, columnist Shannon Achimalbe lists four (more) types of people who should not go to law school in this day and age. -
Law Schools, LSAT
Law School Lets Prospective Applicants Know They're Nothing More Than An LSAT Score
What an embarrassing mistake. -
Career Center, Career Files, LSAT, Pre-Law
From The Career Files: Jumping The LSAT Hurdle
Other than the rare examples of law schools here and here, you’re going to need to take the LSAT to get into law school. -
Law Schools
4 Types Of People Who Might Be Good Candidates For Law School
Yes, there ARE some people who are good candidates for law school today -- might you be one of them?