UCLA Law School
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Bar Exams, Law Schools
Bar Review Diaries: Discipline, Rural Peepers and Urban Jogging
Memorial Day has come and gone. Hopefully those of you studying for the bar exam took a little time out for hamburgers and baseball. It’ll be awhile until you have such a good excuse for slacking relaxing. Graduation festivities are receding into the past, and the specter of the bar exam looms a little larger […] -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Bar Review Diaries: Of Sunshine and Studying
June is just around the corner, the sun is shining, and many of our readers are hopefully enjoying their shiny new law degrees. Mazel tov! Unfortunately, the thousands of dollars you spent on three years of law school didn’t quite cover everything you need to pass that pesky bar exam. The ink on your JD […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Employment Statistics Shenanigans Open Thread: Which Schools Are Juking Their Stats?
All right folks, graduation is upon us. If you are a 3L who did not secure a post-graduate legal job, I’m sorry. Your life isn’t over, but law school didn’t work out as well for you as you might have hoped. At least not yet. Not that your law schools want anybody to know that. […]
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Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News, UNC Law, Vanderbilt
Open Thread: 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings (16 - 30)
And now things get interesting. As we continue to run through the U.S. News 2012 law school rankings, we get to a crucial set of schools. The schools in this batch are certainly top tier, but they’re not “top 14”; for the most part, though, they charge like top 14 schools (especially the private ones). […] -
Minority Issues, Racism, Trials, Weirdness
Idaho's Main Exports: Potatoes and Racism?
I don’t think Idaho gets enough credit for being positively weird. Sure, Napoleon Dynamite did a good job of highlighting that state’s peculiar relationship with llamas and quesadillas. But what of the insane racial animus that resides in the Potato State? (I don’t know if Idaho is the potato state. It should be, right? We’ll […] -
Bar Exams, Boalt Hall, California, Law Schools, Loyola Law School
California Bar Exam Results By Law School: Open Thread
Here in New York, home to Above the Law and Breaking Media, we’re gearing up for more epic snow. Those of you lucky enough to live in the Golden State might have to deal with earthquakes, mudslides, and obnoxious celebrities, but at least you don’t have to deal with blizzards. Falling snow? Not in sunny […] -
Immigration, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Living the American Dream?
People used to tell me, ‘Why go to college if you can’t get a real job when you graduate.’ If I had listened to those people, I wouldn’t have done anything with my life. — Luis Perez, the first undocumented immigrant to graduate from UCLA School of Law (and the subject of a recent profile […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, No Offers, Summer Associates
UCLA Law: The Jobs Will Come Out... Tomorrow!
Last month, on their blog, Bruin Briefs, staffers in the career services office of UCLA School of Law offered some advice to 3Ls who didn’t receive offers from their summer employers. If you’re in this ship that be sinking boat, you might find the counsel helpful; check it out here. One UCLA law student identified […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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A Collection of Things You Can Do in a Bathroom
We know how our readers are obsessed with toilets. Over the course of this week, a couple of stories came in about bathroom shenanigans, and we’ll deal with them both here. We’ve got a steamy bathroom (or maybe not, see correction below) and a stinky bathroom from Iowa and UCLA Law, respectively. First up, Iowa. […] -
California, Cars, Job Searches
UCLA Law Offers Most Depressing Job to a Law Student (2010 Edition)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a true contestant for the title of most depressing job offered to a law student. Sure, there have been a lot of jobs that offer $10 an hour, or even $0 an hour, for legal work. But at least those jobs were offering the opportunity to put long […] -
Media and Journalism, Reality TV, Romance and Dating
Skadden Associate Graces The Cover of In Touch Magazine Thanks to Rumored Relationship with The Bachelorette
It’s not every day that we see a Biglaw associate on the cover of a celebrity gossip magazine. So we were a bit shocked when a tipster sent along the scanned image (right) of last week’s In Touch magazine, with this message: The guy identified as “Ali’s new guy” in this week’s Intouch weekly (and […] -
UCLA Law: Surprisingly Chipper About Grade Delay
The law school perspective on grading is wrong. At many law schools, professors look at grades as the least important part of their job. Sadly, it’s actually the most important part of their job. Grades are the only thing law students can’t get from an outline. Grades are VASTLY more important to a student’s earning […] -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Vermin / Rodents / Pests
Top Tier Law Schools Have Problems Too
Look on the bright side, Loyola 2L. Maybe you don’t have a post-graduation job lined up yet. But law students at your crosstown competition have their own challenges to deal with. UCLA is a Tier One law school, per U.S. News & World Report (even if not a so-called “T14” school, as they like to […]
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