University of Michigan Law School
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The Law School Application and Admissions Process: An ATL Google Hangout
The admissions deans at Harvard and Michigan share their insights and advice on the law school application and admissions process. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Romance and Dating
Top Law School Dean Pimps School As Solid Dating Pool
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The Ethical use of Generative AI
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John Edwards, Kasowitz Benson, Plaintiffs Firms, UNC Law
Old Politicians Never Die, They Just... Join Law Firms
Three politicians are going to law firms, and not as lobbyists! It may be the apocalypse.
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, LSAT
A Stunning Admissions Admission About LSATs
How much does your LSAT score really matter these days? -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Screw-Ups
It's That Time Of Year When Law Professors Show Themselves To Be Lazy, Incompetent, Or Both
More exam screw-ups from professors with no accountability... -
Evan Caminker, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? Michigan Law Edition
One can live well in Ann Arbor on a six-figure salary.... -
Basketball, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, David Boies, Drinking, Drudge Report, Election Law, Eugene Volokh, Free Speech, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Police, Politics, Racism, Sports, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 05.03.13
* Eugene Volokh analyzes the free-speech issues raised by the prosecution of Anya Bargh, the UConn law student accused of sending anti-Semitic and racist emails. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Lawyerist thinks you suck, not the gunners. Discuss. [Lawyerist] * Law and the Multiverse now has CLE courses about comic books. Maintaining this license just got that much easier. [Law and the Multiverse] * Some new developments in the Ed O’Bannon case against the NCAA. Basically, discovery has not been kind to the NCAA. [Bloomberg] * All the editors-in-chief at Michigan Law are women. Now, if another 90 or so journals follow suit, Staci’s article will seem outdated. [Michigan Law] * Ruh-roh. Did David Boies blow the lid off campaign spending limits last cycle? [Huffington Post] * No, Mike Bloomberg was not denied a slice of pizza yesterday. [Gawker] * WARNING: If you understand math, the latest from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly will annoy the hell out of you. [PrawfsBlawg] * Man injured in a drunken fight sues the bar that he says should have cut him off. [Overlawyered] -
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. - Sponsored
New Report - Are Small Firms Achieving Their Legal Tech Goals?
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings
Which Top Law School Has the Highest Percentage of Underemployed Graduates?
All hell breaks loose at the bottom of the T14 -- we're talking double-digit underemployment figures! -
Food, Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
This Is Perhaps the Wittiest Response to a Pissy Law Student Email Ever
When a law student writes an overly dramatic email, it's best to shut them down with a dose of sarcasm. -
Biglaw, Death Penalty, Guns / Firearms, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Outsourcing, Partner Issues, Securities Law
Morning Docket: 04.02.13
* It looks like it’s time for yet another rousing game of Biglaw musical chairs. This time, 11 of Bingham McCutchen’s securities enforcement partners are hightailing it over to Sidley Austin en masse. [DealBook / New York Times]
* This week in on-shore outsourcing: there may be a job waiting for you at Kaye Scholer’s new operations center (so new we bet you didn’t know about it), so hurry up and apply, because the interviews are soon. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* “We’re trained in the law and persuasion, not firearms.” But maybe you should be? After the targeted killing of attorneys in Texas, prosecutors are now on high alert. [New York Times]
* When looking at the current law school model, Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog urges law deans to take advice from Jimmy McMillan because “law school tuition is simply too damn high.” [Businessweek]
* Change our admissions practices amid the worst legal economy we’ve seen in decades? “Ain’t nobody got time for that,” scoffed Sarah Zearfoss, director of admissions at Michigan Law. [AnnArbor.com]
* Drexel Law will accept applications for its two-year law degree program in May 2014. The higher-ups at the ABA are scheduled to laugh their asses off on or about the same date. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* “[F]or James Eagan Holmes, justice is death.” In a move that shocked absolutely no one, the prosecution in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater massacre case is seeking the death penalty. [CNN]
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American Bar Association / ABA, Boalt Hall, Job Searches, Law Schools, UVA Law
When Even Members of the T14 Don't Comply With ABA Standards, Will Law Schools Ever Be Truly Transparent?
Which elite law schools have failed to provide employment transparency data that's required by the ABA? -
Law Schools, Student Loans
Using Michigan Law's 'Debt Wizard' Should Be Part Of The LSAT Games Section
You should be required to use and understand this tool before you apply to law school.
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Biglaw, California, Department of Justice, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Layoffs, Military / Military Law, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Patton Boggs, Romance and Dating, SCOTUS, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Staff Layoffs, Student Loans, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 03.01.13
* In the nick of time, lawyers for the Obama administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging the justices to strike down California’s ban on gay marriage. Let’s hope their views have evolved. [BuzzFeed]
* As the lawyers and administrative staff who just got laid off at Patton Boggs can attest to, it sucks to be on the wrong side of “rightsizing.” We’ll have more on this developing story later today. [Reuters]
* Lanny Breuer is leaving the DOJ today, and he’s doing it with a bit of “swagger.” He’s shrugging off rumors that he’ll retreat to Covington, insisting he’ll interview at many firms. [DealBook / New York Times]
* It’s time for the changing of the guard over at Milbank Tweed. Mel Immergut, the longest serving chair of any Am Law 100 firm in New York, is passing the reins to Scott Edelman. [New York Law Journal]
* Michigan Law has a new “Debt Wizard” program that’s extremely useful in that it will allow you to see what you’re getting yourself into. Or, in my case, how poor I’ll be for the rest of my life. Yay! [National Law Journal]
* All he wanted to do was “make the world a better place,” but that didn’t work out so well. In a plea deal, Bradley Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of the charges against him in his WikiLeaks case. [Los Angeles Times]
* Of all of the words that are used to describe Cory Booker, one of them is now “matchmaker.” The Newark mayor assisted a young Seyfarth Shaw associate with his engagement proposal earlier this week. [TIME]
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Grade Reform, Law Professors, Law Schools, Privacy, Screw-Ups
Would You Like To See The Grades Of All Your Classmates? Then You Should Have Gone To This Top Law School!
Grading disaster at Michigan... -
2nd Circuit, Andrew Cuomo, Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Eric Holder, Evan Caminker, Guns / Firearms, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Real Estate, Student Loans, Violence
Morning Docket: 01.10.13
* Eric Holder has agreed to serve once more as attorney general during President Barack Obama’s second term, but he still plans to leave at some point — after all, he’s no “Janet Reno of the Justice Department.” [Blog of Legal Times]
* For those who care about Biglaw firms and the landlords who love them, fear not, because there’s a whole lot of moving and shaking in terms of commercial real estate deals for Arnold & Porter, Goodwin Procter, and Sidley Austin. [Am Law Daily]
* Jacoby & Meyers scored at the Second Circuit, and the firm’s legal attack on New York’s ban on non-lawyer law firm ownership was reinstated. Soon Walmart will own a law firm with “Low Prices. Every day. On everything.” [Bloomberg]
* Who’ll be stepping in to fill Evan Caminker’s $457,964 shoes as the next dean of Michigan Law? None other than Mark West, who’d like to improve financial aid and loan repayment programs. [National Law Journal]
* Gun nuts, commence your rioting… now. If passed, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s sweeping gun-control proposal would make New York the state with the strictest gun laws in the country. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* Speaking of needless gun violence, by Friday, we’ll know whether there’s enough evidence to move forward with a trial for James Holmes, the accused shooter in the Aurora movie theater massacre. [New York Times]
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Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Don't Be the Black Sheep of Law Schools When It Comes to Transparency
Baa! Don't be the black sheep, says this law school dean who came out in favor of increased transparency in employment statistics. -
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Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
We've Already Mocked Michigan Law's Secret Society, Now It's Time to Mock Their Law Fraternity
What kind of insane initiation stunts can you look forward to if you join Phi Delta Phi at Michigan Law? -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Test Takers Tank On The July 2012 Michigan Bar Exam
The Michigan Bar Exam took test takers out to the woodshed...