Student Debt
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.19.15
* A must-have for all those Biglaw overachievers gunning for partner. [Next Shark]
* Racists don’t even know how to racist right. [Wonkette]
* To recap acceptable responses to tickets: writing on the ticket “FUCK YOUR SHITTY TOWN BITCHES” = totally fine; wiping your butt with the ticket and throwing it at the police officer = not okay. [The Smoking Gun]
* Welp, this is an interesting clause to stick into a settlement agreement. [Deadspin]
* Maybe, just maybe, the Supreme Court will weigh in on the student debt crisis. [Bloomberg Business]
* Is it possible to make your writing benchslap-proof? [Legal Writing Pro]
* It’s best to be vague yet forceful when trying to escape new Biglaw work. [Daily Lawyer Tips]
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Law Schools, Student Loans
10 Law Schools With The Least-Indebted Graduates
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Why Do AI And Legal Professionals Make The Perfect Partnership?
For many legal departments, generative AI is the technology they’ve been waiting for. -
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.
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Law Schools, Law Students, Student Loans
Stats Of The Week: Law Student Debt Compared To Other Graduate Programs
How does law student borrowing compare to that of medical students, MBAs, or other graduate programs? -
Money, Student Loans
Who Wants All Their Student Loans Paid Off?
A Biglaw associate, a Harvard Law School grad, and a JPMorgan Chase VP need your help. -
Public Interest
States Are Looking To Bolster Their LRAPs
A pair of states seek to improve the funding of their state-administered loan repayment programs for public interest lawyers. -
Law Schools, Student Loans
Law School Ditches Federal Loan Program, Forces Students To Take Out Private Loans
Which school would do such a thing to its students? It's none other than... -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
3 Recommendations For The Law School Graduating Class of 2015
Financial and professional advice for new law school graduates from columnist Shannon Achimalbe. - Sponsored
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. -
Career Files, Law Schools, Pre-Law, Student Loans
We Would Be Better Off If 30 Law Schools Closed
A modest proposal for reforming legal education: cull the herd. -
Federal Government, Health Care / Medicine, Money, Tax Law
The Secret Taxes On The Young: Health Insurance And Student Loan Interest
On this Tax Day, columnist Shannon Achimalbe looks at two payments that are not called taxes but feel like and have the effect of a tax. -
Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Good Grief: These Law School 'Debt Per Job' Numbers Are Ugly
For every job obtained by a graduate of these law schools, an extraordinary debt burden has been accrued. -
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! -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.11.15
* Texas wants to strip lawyers of their license if they don’t pay their student loans. Yeah, if they’re getting behind, taking away their ability to earn money seems like a good strategy. [Texas Lawyer]
* Lawyer gives waiter a $25K tip to get dental surgery. Based on the picture, I’d have given him that tip for free. [ABC 11]
* Let’s all hope John Oliver never goes back to The Daily Show, because his HBO show is making a real-life impact. The Tennessee Supreme Court cited Oliver on civil forfeiture in an opinion handed down yesterday. [Tennessee Courts]
* From the strip club to the mental hospital. Pretty standard murder scenario actually. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
* Suge Knight’s defense to murder and attempted murder charges? He’s legally blind in one eye so didn’t see the people he killed. [NY Daily News]
* Reality star testifies under oath that reality shows aren’t real. Try and pick up the pieces from your shattered world. [Morning After / Gawker]
* Document review is such a terrible job, you should probably just go into PR. That assumes you’ve not done enough document review that you can never smile again. [Law and More]
* The final segment of an interview with Seth Zachary, Chairman of Paul Hastings. In this part of the interview, Zachary discusses weathering and overcoming the collapse of his previous firm Finley Kumble, the former Biglaw giant that went under in the 80s. This is where we make the obligatory, “Dewey know anyone who might appreciate this tale?” [Bloomberg BNA / Big Law Business]
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Public Interest
When A Full Ride Is Half-Empty
Even with "free" law school, some bills still need to get paid. -
Public Interest
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Might Be Capped -- You Can Help Stop It
PSLF provides a really substantial benefit to these people in particular. But soon that may no longer be the case. -
Public Interest
The Single Most Important Piece of Advice for Aspiring Public Interest Lawyers
Before I explain, let’s lay out a few assumptions here to make sure this advice is for you. -
Law Schools, Money, Quote of the Day, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Student Loans, Unemployment
The Incredibly Harsh Stigma Of Law School Debt
What's been the worst part of having to grapple with unemployment and pay off student loans? -
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? -
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." -
Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Money, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Student Loans
Every Law School Mistake Ever, From One Lady
How the other half is ruined.