Helicopter Parents
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California, Craigslist, Job Searches, Kids, Law Schools
Parent Begs Firms To Hire Son -- Offers To Pay Part Of Son's Salary
Going on Craigslist to beg for a job for your son. -
Fat People, Kids, Tort Reform
Lawyers Made Your Kids Fat, Fearful, And Bored
Tort laws are making our kids fat... 
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Career Alternatives, Career Files, Law Schools, Pre-Law
From the Career Files: How To Tell Your Parents You're Not Going to Law School
Are you being pressured into law school by your parents? Here are some tips for making the case against law school.
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Boalt Hall, California, Drugs, Kids, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues
Lawyerly Lovebirds Accused of Planting Pills and Pot Now Face a Civil Suit From Alleged Victim
Remember the lawyers who were accused of planting drugs on the PTA president earlier this summer? Now they're facing a civil suit... -
Boalt Hall, California, Drugs, Kids, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues
A Law Firm Partner and His Boalt Hall Wife Stand Accused of Planting Drugs on an Elementary School Volunteer
If the allegations are true, then you do not want to mess with the kid of these two (rather attractive) lawyers, because you may wind up facing drug charges... -
Kids, Law Schools
Parents Just Don't Understand
Last week, we received a fairly provocative question in the Above the Law inbox. A reader asked us to assess the role that parents play -- or should play -- in their children's decision to go to law school. Elie don't think that parents are allowing their kids to go to law school because they want to be supportive of their kids' dreams. He thinks that more parents are forcing their kids to go to law school. Absent parental meddling, there wouldn't be nearly as many people applying to law school....
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