UCLA Law School
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Early Reactions to the U.S. News Rankings: Deans and the Excuses They Make
The U.S. News Law School Rankings are out, which means it's open season on law school deans. While deans from schools that dropped are trying to save themselves, deans from schools that went up in the rankings are crowing from the rooftops. -
California, Email Scandals, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
There Is a Law School Lunch Thief Running Wild in Our Midst
With some of the truly horrible stuff going on in law these days — law students allegedly trying to kill each other, managing partners having affairs with their subordinates’ wives — it’s almost reassuring to know that people can still afford to get crazily worked up about good old-fashioned nothing. Some behaviors are the equivalent […] - 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… -
Biglaw, Drinking, Letter from London, Magic Circle, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Letter from London: 'I Thought Freshfields Was a Supermarket'
“I thought Freshfields [Bruckhaus Deringer] was a supermarket when I got here,” says Kirsty Grant, a fourth-year associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Happily, Grant -- a fast-learner who got through law school in L.A. while working full-time during the day -- quickly figured out that the Anglo-German law firm, a member of the Magic Circle, wasn’t the place to fulfill her grocery needs. Not that Grant, 33, has oceans of spare cash to splash on her grocery needs. How do her finances as an American abroad compare to those of her Biglaw counterparts back home?
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Bar Exams, Boalt Hall, California, Law Schools, Loyola Law School
California Bar Passage Rate Holds Steady; Shame For Underperforming Schools Deepens
California has released some macro-level results from the July 2011 administration of the bar exam. The California bar is notoriously difficult, and every year we like to take a look at which schools prepared their students well for the exam, and which schools did not. You might be surprised at which California law school had the best passage rate on the California bar. Hint: it's not Stanford, or Boalt Hall, or UCLA.... -
Affirmative Action, Bar Exams, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Money, Racism
Start Socioeconomic Affirmative Action Now
According to a new study by UCLA law professor Richard Sander, discussed in an article in the Denver University Law Review, “the vast majority of American law students come from relatively elite backgrounds; this is especially true at the most prestigious law schools, where only five percent of all students come from families whose SES […] -
Biglaw, Facebook, Job Searches, Law Schools
Best Way to Brag About an Offer: Just Lay It Out And Bask In Your Own Glory
For the millennials, bragging comes so naturally they don't even realize when they're doing it. It's like their biological imperatives are to survive, reproduce, and post evidence of it on Facebook. But just because somebody is bragging doesn't mean you have to care. For instance, last week we had a kid bragging about getting an offer from a particular Biglaw firm.... -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Old People
Is Any of This Law School Naming Rights Money Going Back to the Students?
Hofstra Law School will be renamed the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, according to the New York Law Journal. But Hofstra isn't the only law school to accept big dollars in exchange for naming rights. As this trend continues, you wonder if any of this money being thrown around will benefit the actual students.... -
California, Law Professors, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Money, Peter Lattman, Reader Polls, Wall Street
Should UCLA Law School Accept Milken's Millions?
Ah, California. Your weather is amazing, but we don't want to deal with your earthquakes. Over at UCLA Law School, they're experiencing some earth-shaking controversy of their own. An ultra-wealthy alumnus made it rain, with a $10 million gift to the school -- but now some professors want to rain on his parade, and their objections have hit the national news media.... - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Celebrities, Drugs, Facebook, Morning Docket, Sex, Weddings
Morning Docket: 08.10.11
* With a $10 million donation, it looks like UCLA School of Law can afford to stop playing it fast and loose with its employment statistics. [New York Times] * In light of Facebook’s “smoking gun” evidence of fraud, Paul Ceglia didn’t skip town. He skipped the entire country. [Los Angeles Times] * You can […]
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Bar Exams, Immigration, Job Searches, Libraries / Librarians, Travel / Vacation, Unemployment
Bar Review Diaries: The End Is The Beginning
If you took the bar exam last month, you might be trying hard to forget the experience, or you might be flying far, far away on an exotic vacation. Maybe you are counting the days until results come out in November, or maybe you’re frantically searching for employment before those organ bill collectors start knocking. […] -
Bar Exams
Bar Review Diaries: Basking in the Afterglow
The bar exam has come and gone. Our esteemed Bar Review Diarists have lived to tell the tale, and thank goodness none of them fainted or had a baby during the test. But as usual, Mike, Mariah and Christopher also had their fair share of adventures. Keep reading to see how a soggy sweater and […] -
Boalt Hall, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
Boalt Hall and UCLA Issue Scholarships To Cover Last-Minute Fee Increase
The administrations at UCLA Law and Boalt Hall step up to the plate to help law students facing yet another fee increase. -
Bar Exams, Gay
Bar Review Diaries: The Final Countdown
This is the Final Countdown. Exactly a week from now, many of you will be stuck at desks for upwards of two days, working to finish that little formality they call the Bar Exam. This is the last time we’ll hear from our Bar Review Diarists before they cross the threshold. They are leaving behind […]
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Bar Exams, Gay, Gay Marriage, Immigration
Bar Review Diaries: Don't Panic
Well, we are just two weeks away. The bar exam looms. Our columnists have given up discussing country life and making fake advice lists. They are putting their noses to their respective grindstones. This week at the Bar Review Diaries, we hear some crowd-sourced opinions about studying for the bar, we learn the secret to […] -
Bar Exams
Bar Review Diaries: Confidently Rounding the Home Stretch
We’re closing in on the main event. The holiday weekend may have been your last excuse to slack until the bar exam is over. But here at the Bar Review Diaries, our columnists are at peace. They know they need to buckle down, but they are confident. After the jump, we learn that Mike has […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
UCLA Law's Job Placement Numbers Strain Credulity, But Did You Read The Fine Print?
We've busted UCLA Law in the past for blatantly trying to inflate its employment statistics. But the stats the school is publishing for the class of 2010 are frankly unbelievable. Want to see how insane they really are? -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Bar Review Diaries: The Bridge Is Out!
Thus far into the Bar Review Diaries, our intrepid columnists have been strangely in sync with each other. Last week, motivation was the hot topic. Another time, it was simply stress. But I’m not going to lie, this week Mariah, Mike, and Christopher are all over the map. And that’s OK. They don’t plan this […] -
Bar Exams
Bar Review Diaries: Where Is My Motivation?
Are we sick of studying yet? Do you just want to get on with your life — make money, change the world, put in the hours at the office — as long as it doesn’t include more video lectures? Well, sorry. Here at the Bar Review Diaries, we are still about five weeks away from […] -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Bar Review Diaries: Making Law From Fire Logs
I’m not sure how to say this, but I think some of our columnists are starting to get a little unhinged. This week on the Bar Review Diaries, we’ll start off with some wood-piling hallucinations and imaginary Kiwi exchange students. Let’s join Mariah in Vermont, a.k.a. the 1860s, after the jump… -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Bar Review Diaries: How Do We Deal With Stress?
We have a definite theme for this week’s installment of the Bar Review Diaries: stress! Big surprise, right? What’s not stressful about a multi-day test that culminates three years of study and kind of determines your entire future? Our columnists are in the thick of their review, and by the looks of it, anxiety is […]