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....
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....
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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....
* 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
The administrations at UCLA Law and Boalt Hall step up to the plate to help law students facing yet another fee increase.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]