Student Loans
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Biglaw
Working In Biglaw Can Hurt Your Future Job Prospects
You may have a very difficult time getting hired by a smaller firm that will allow you to actually litigate cases. -
Law Schools
NYU School Of Medicine Offers Free Tuition To All Students. Should Law Schools Follow?
Maybe the next big law school fundraiser will be for tuition-free law school? - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Law Schools
Student Loan Advice For Incoming Law Students
You will thank yourself later if you make some sacrifices and borrow less money to attend law school.
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Law Schools
Advice Columnist Tells Law School Grad To Dump D-Bag Who Won't Stop Harassing Her About Student Loans
This is your loan servicer's job -- not your significant other's. -
Law Schools
The 10 Law Schools With The Most Expensive Out-Of-State Tuiton
Out-of-state students are being price-gouged at these law schools. -
Law Schools
Don't Let The Trauma Of Being A Law Student During The Great Recession Bias Your Perceptions About Law School
The reality is that the legal profession is in much better shape now than it was during the Great Recession. -
Law Schools
Without Access To Loans, Homeless Student Lived In A Car While Finishing Law School
This student was only able to survive law school thanks ingenuity and the help of faculty. -
Biglaw
Many Biglaw Associates Are Not Compensated As Well As You'd Think When You Consider How Much They Work
These associates are working their asses off and have little to no free time. It's not as good as you think it is. - Sponsored
How Generative AI Will Improve Legal Service Delivery
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Law Schools
Making More Money Is Not As Awesome As You'd Think
The main reason why it is not always desirable to earn more money is taxes -- INSANE taxes. -
Law Schools
Working In The Public Sector Can Give You Debt-Forgiveness Handcuffs
Do you feel trapped in your public service field? You can change your job and still be eligible for PSLF. -
Law Schools
Think Student Loans Are Bad? Business Loans To Start A Practice Are Way Worse
You're probably getting off pretty easy as a lawyer... -
Law Schools
Other Professionals Don't Understand The Student Loan Situations Of Most Lawyers
Why? Because law schools lied to incoming students and the Great Recession brought doom and gloom to the legal profession. -
Law Schools
Law Schools Should Ask Applicants How They Will Pay For Their Law School Expenses
Perhaps disclaimers should be placed in law school applications about the burdens and consequences of student loans.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.15.18
* “If the law’s not going to be improved by Congress, we have to help these young people who are drowning in student loan debt.” In the past, judges would rarely consider helping people who were bankrupted by student debt payments, but now offering their support through the court system. [Wall Street Journal]
* Guess which Biglaw firm helped the United States Soccer Federation secure the 2026 World Cup? If you guessed it was the firm that celebrated its bid by not raising its associates’ salaries yet, you were right. Thanks, Latham! [American Lawyer]
* A judge approved AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner on Tuesday, and two days later, it’s now complete. Although the Justice Department isn’t filing for a stay, that’s not going to stop lawyers in the Antitrust Division from appealing the judge’s decision in the case, though. [CNN]
* As our personal-finance columnist Jordan Rothman complained of earlier this week, it’s messed up that you can lose your law license after defaulting on your student loans. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Marco Rubio thought it was messed up too, so they introduced a bill to stop it from happening. [Law.com]
* RBG, the documentary about the life and times of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is quite literally stealing the show. The film has made $9.2 million since its release, making it the highest-grossing movie of the Sundance Film Festival. I highly recommend seeing this movie. [Hollywood Reporter]
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Law Schools
An Orthodontist's One Million Dollar Student Loan Debt Exposes The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly About Income Based Repayment Programs
At what point does paying your student loans in full no longer make financial sense? -
Law Schools
You Can Lose Your Law License After Defaulting On Student Loans, And That's Messed Up
If policymakers were truly interested in having student loans paid on time, they would not be suspending law licenses. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.13.18
* Even the mainstream media is covering Biglaw’s new salary scale, but dare we say, our coverage is much better. Check it out here while you cross your fingers and pray that your firm follows the latest in associate compensation trends. [New York Post]
* “We don’t create or adjudicate under secret law or procedure.” Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has filed suit against the Department of Justice, alleging that the DOJ has repeatedly refused to turn over any documents or identify any policy or procedures that were relied upon when firing him. [Associated Press]
* There’s no vacancy on the Supreme Court right now, but Demand Justice, a liberal nonprofit group, has already spent a hefty sum on digital attack ads against some of the judges on President Trump’s short list. Thus far, Judges Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit, Brett Kavanaugh of the D.C. Circuit, and Amul Thapar of the Sixth Circuit have been treated to campaign coverage. [BuzzFeed]
* In case you somehow missed it, over the government’s antitrust objections, a federal judge has approved AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner following a six-week trial. They hope to close the deal by or before June 20. Have hope, everyone, maybe Time Warner Cable will actually function sometime soon. [USA Today]
* The ABA’s president has asked members of the House to oppose the part of the PROSPER Act that would end Public Service Loan Forgiveness, because “[w]ithout PSLF, the organizations that provide life- and livelihood-sustaining services will be even farther away from being able to meet these important challenges.” Plus, many law school graduates wouldn’t be able to survive. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.12.18
* Proskauer tells the EEOC that there’s nothing “sinister” about employers demanding that sexual harassment victims sign away their legal rights to be railroaded through employer-chosen kangaroo courts and then forcibly silenced. Welcome to 2018. [National Law Journal]
* In emoluments news, Judge Peter Messitte asked the Justice Department if, based on their chosen defense, “Wouldn’t that be bribery?” which he seemed to think would be a bad thing as if the Supreme Court hadn’t legalized bribery in McDonnell. [US News]
* Chris Christie is starting his own law firm and somehow Rudy Giuliani has already managed to lie about that. [NJ.com]
* Betsy DeVos succeeded in keeping fraud victims indebted to the government. She was also ordered to stop pursuing collection actions against the victims, but she still gets to destroy their credit ratings, which is still a great day for kleptocracy. [Courthouse News Service]
* Nelson Mullins merging with Broad and Cassel as part of the growing trend of super-regional firms designed to keep the Am Law elite at bay. [Daily Report]
* In a lesson on putting carts ahead of horses, the former general counsel for Portland, Oregon’s public school district was just admitted to the bar… after the state bar lodged ethics violations against him for serving in that role without a law license in the state. [Portland Tribune]
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Law Schools
This Lawyer's Law School Loans Have Ballooned To Insane, Unpayable Amounts
Think your law school debt is crazy now? This could be you in the future. -
Law Schools
Don't Cheap Out (Too Much) When Studying For The Bar Exam
There are certain things you can be thrifty about when studying for the bar exam, and certain things you should invest money on to ensure that you pass.