Student Loans
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Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Law School Tries To Pressure Students Into Snap Decision With 'Buy Now' Sales Tactic
If somebody tries to sell you a spot in law school like it's a bolo tie on QVC, you should be very suspicious. -
Federal Government, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Politics, Student Loans
Federal Government Profiting Handsomely Off Your Debt
And yet the government seems unwilling or unable to remedy the situation. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Student Loans, Unemployment
About Two-Thirds of Parents Want Their Kids to Be Lawyers
These people have very high hopes for their special little snowflakes.
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Biglaw, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Upstart: Where Law Grads Try To Convince You To Pay Their Debts For Them
Begging for money on the internet gets easier and easier... -
9th Circuit, Bankruptcy, Money, Pro Bono, Student Loans
In Ruling on Undue Hardship, Court Is Not Allowed To Come Into Your House and Repurpose Your Wife
This guy succeeded in discharging his student loan debts, and he didn't have to pimp out his wife... -
Art, Bloomberg, Environment / Environmental Law, Non-Sequiturs, Rankings, State Attorneys General, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Student Loans, U.S. News
Non-Sequiturs: 05.17.13
* NY Attorney General investigating fast food restaurants for shorting their employees. This is a worthwhile cause, but what he should be looking into is who ate the bones? [CNN] * Two more law schools, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania admit they gave false information to U.S. News resulting in better rankings. Those were their BETTER rankings? [TaxProf Blog] * To keep “misleading statistics” in perspective, the Department of Education leveled one of its steepest fines on Yale for covering up multiple “forcible sex offenses” to keep its campus safety statistics down. [Chronicle of Higher Education] * A measure of resource governance finds the U.S. has the second best governance of its oil, gas and mining sectors. Give yourself a hand regulators. And we’re gunning for you Norway! [Breaking Energy] * The Honorable Felicia Mennin does not grasp how time works. Thinks artist should have been more conscious of the public fear surrounding the Boston bombings… back in February. [New York Times] * Congratulations readers for helping the profile of a White House petition to reform student loan policy. Here are a couple more if you feel like making more reforms to the process… or at least more suggestions for reforms that will sit on someone’s desk. [Whitehouse.gov and Whitehouse.gov] * Is political intelligence practice too risky? Is political intelligence an oxymoron? An interview with Robert Walker of Wiley Rein LLP after the jump [Bloomberg Law] -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Environment / Environmental Law, Politics, Student Loans
Non-Sequiturs: 05.16.13
* A White House petition started by a young lawyer asking that at least student loan interest be tax deductible like interest on a mortgage to help out those folks like, frankly, most lawyers, who make too much money to deduct their student loans. [WhiteHouse.gov] * Antoinette “Toni” Bush, partner-in-charge of Skadden’s communications group, is leaving the firm to become global head of government affairs for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Free tip: brush up on your hacking law. [Am Law Daily] * The Department of Energy may adopt a new “commercial maturity test” to get rolling on the backlog of liquid natural gas export license requests. And that, of course, will spur the inevitable lawsuits. [Breaking Energy] * Apparently, President Obama dreams of “going Bulworth and resents the “Harry Potter theory of the presidency,” that the President can wave a wand and make things happen. So he’s pro Pras, Maya, and ODB, and anti-Hagrid. Who’s anti-Hagrid??? [New York Times] * Lois Lerner, the manager at the center of the IRS “scandal,” has backed out of delivering the keynote at the WNEU Law commencement. I’m pretty sure Staci would do a better job… of running the IRS. [Boston Herald] * Overlawyered blasts the Daily Caller for trying to tie Lerner to Obama via her husband, Michael Miles of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan because the large firm had some ties to Obama. Blerg. Meanwhile, this “partisan scandal” is turning out to be bipartisan entirely based on which IRS office the groups dealt with. [Overlawyered] * Congratulations to this guy. Must have been a hell of a feast. [WDRB] -
Harvard, Law Schools, Student Loans
Harvard Law School Agrees To Start Accepting Harvard Students Early IF They Promise To Go Get A Life First
Harvard Law School has a really interesting pilot program -- which will be ruined once other schools start copying it... - 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… -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.15.13
* Now that Republicans have some actual issues to concern themselves with, they’re going to… vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act again? My God, they’re dumb. [New York Times] * Sonia Sotomayor has the highest name recognition on the Court. Kennedy is the most liked. Clarence Thomas has lower favorability among African-Americans than he […]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Money, Quote of the Day, Student Loans
Progressive Professors Profit, Putting Pupils in Poverty
Law professors are living high off the hog while law students are drowning in debt. -
Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Student Loans
Could Law Schools PLEASE Stop Whining About The Nine Months After Graduation Statistic? You Sound Like Babies.
Law schools don't seem to care about employment along the same timeline as loan officers... -
Boutique Law Firms, Defamation, Labor / Employment, Media and Journalism, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Can This Litigation Get Any Uglier? Alexandra Marchuk Amends Her Complaint Against Faruqi & Faruqi
Alexandra Marchuk isn't taking the Faruqi & Faruqi counterclaims lying down. Here's her vigorous response. -
Crime, Education / Schools, Money, Sex, Student Loans
Nazis! Sex Slaves! Debt!
To debt is human, to forgive is how we stopped the Nazis.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Facebook, Law Schools, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Student Loans, Twittering
If You Don't 'Like' Your Student Loan Servicer on Facebook, You Will Default
You better follow your loan servicer on social media sites if you don't want your credit to be ruined! -
Biglaw, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Money, Patents, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Student Loans
Biglaw Perk Watch: Tuition Reimbursement
Want to go to law school for free? Get your employer to pay for it! -
Ask the Experts, Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Pre-Law, Student Loans
From the Career Files: Law School Scholarships & Grants -- How to Finance Your Legal Education
Let me say this in all caps so you can hear me: DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL WITHOUT A CLEAR PLAN TO FUND YOUR EDUCATION!!! -
Akin Gump, Antonin Scalia, Biglaw, Clarence Thomas, Insider Trading, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Student Loans, Supreme Court, Tax Law
Morning Docket: 04.17.13
* “Yes, it is true.” Justice Scalia admitted in a speech this week that he was guided to the right by his colleague, Justice Thomas, who’s apparently “a very stubborn man.” [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* It’s about time to say so long to your ticking tax time bomb: in President Obama’s proposed budget for 2014, he eliminates taxes on forgiven loan debt under all IBR plans. [Bucks / New York Times]
* “I am the luckiest man in the world.” Larry Macon, an Akin Gump partner from Texas, had nearly finished the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded, but lived to tell his tale. [Am Law Daily]
* Because sometimes you need to steal $374K worth of copy toner. This ex-Fried Frank staffer pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and is looking at up to 15 years in jail. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Judge Victor Marrero isn’t a fan of SEC policy, but when it comes to this civil insider trading case, SAC Capital may get to walk away without admitting or denying anything. [DealBook / New York Times]
* This Yale Law graduate is suing Brooks Brothers over a three-button suit, and wants $2K for the 90 minutes he spent arguing over it in the store. Who is the $1320/hour man? [New York Daily News]
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Law Schools, Money, Reader Polls, Student Loans
The Decision: Tempted By The 'T14'
Please advise three more prospective law students on where they should go. They've gotten into some great schools, but greatness isn't cheap. -
Law Schools, Money, Reader Polls, Student Loans, William and Mary School of Law
The Decision: Should I Go To Law School At All? Plus George Washington v. William & Mary
Help advise two prospective law students: one who's choosing between GW and William and Mary, and one who wonders whether she should go to law school at all. -
Law Schools, Money, Reader Polls, Student Loans, UVA Law
The Decision: UVA v. Northwestern v. Minnesota (With Varying Scholarship Amounts)
Time to advise another prospective law student. This applicant is choosing between three great schools that are offering him very different deals.