Law Student of the Day

Law Student Slays Jeopardy Villain

So what law school boasts a Jeopardy champ? Or maybe we should put that in the form of an answer.

Muscle Milk + Pro Se Litigant = Hilarity

Muscle Milk + Pro Se Litigant = Hilarity.

The Price Is Right — For This Georgetown Law Student

Congratulations to this Georgetown 2L on her game show success!

Geotropic Law Student Sues Law School Over Broken Chair

Sit, fall, sue: America's ridiculous tort system is on display.

Law Student of the Day: A Good Samaritan Hero

Law student leaps onto train tracks, saves woman...

Law Student of the Day: UVA Kid Allegedly Uses Her Phone to Communicate With Cops

Law student uses her cell phone to send a message to cops. No, not in the regular way...

Law Students of the Day: Two Gators Take a Bite Out of Crime

Two Florida law students recently helped apprehend a fugitive from justice. How did they do it?

Law Student of the Day: Max Schrems

While most law students are shaking off the winter break and settling back in for the second semester, Max Schrems is busy doing his best to bring Facebook to its knees. Last year, the 24-year-old University of Vienna law student spent a semester abroad at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. His privacy law professor […]

Law Student of the Day: The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Gunners

Don't you wish that gunners would just disappear? Yesterday's Law Student of the Day has an idea that, if set into motion, will revolutionize and forever change the law school experience. What's his plan, and where does he go to law school?

Celebrity Summer Associate: An International Pop Music Star

Our latest celebrity summer associate is an international rock star -- quite literally. Who is she, and where is she working?

Ilan Grapel: He’s No Austin Powers

As we mentioned yesterday, a student at Emory Law School by the name of Ilan Chaim Grapel was arrested in Egypt on Sunday, and ordered held for 15 days. The Egyptians allege that Grapel is a “highly trained” spy, working for the state of Israel. Ilan Grapel is a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen. And he did […]

Law Student of the Day: Ilan Grapel, Accused of Spying for Israel

At this year’s Emory Law School commencement, Professor Sara Stadler urged graduates to think outside the box with respect to their career options: “You might not be able to land that [top-choice] job…. You might have to move to Nebraska.… You might have to join a small firm where they don’t make the big bucks.” […]

An Interview With Northwestern’s Resident Pop Star

Would you trade in being a pop star to be a legal rockstar? Last week, we wrote about So-eun Lee, a South Korean pop star who left behind her music career to attend Northwestern Law. We emailed with the now-2L to find out how she achieved pop stardom back in Seoul and whether it seems […]

Law Student of the Day: Star Wars Kid

Hello, what have we here? Based on the approximately ten billion emails we’ve received about this into [email protected] in the last few hours, it seems a lot of you already know that the “Star Wars kid” has decided to attend law school. We think the first Kamino-like flood of emails linked to the story on […]

Law Student of the Day: Korean Popstar at Northwestern

We occasionally write about famous law school students here at Above the Law, such as Georgetown rising-3Ls Kaavya Viswanathan (aka the alleged Harvard plagiarist) and Top Model Sara Hallmark, and Southwestern 1L Jerry O’Connell (now on sabbatical). Sometimes, a law school is graced by the presence of a famous classmate and fellow students are completely […]