| New law graduates and realistic salaries| A.S. Pradhan |
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The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) last week released a released a report in which it emphasized once again the difference between the starting average salary and the salary amount that most new graduates get paid. It noted that the average goes up because some firms do offer $160,00... |
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| Law school after graduation | A.S. Pradhan |
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Most students turn to law school directly after getting their undergraduate degrees. Most of these have majored in political science or less frequently English. So for them, law school seems like a logical conclusion. But is law school right after graduation the right thing to do?Nowadays, even stud... |
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| Law school still a good investment|| A.S. Pradhan |
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There are various blogs for law students, most of which now seem to be in schadenfreude mode. The most famous of these is Above the Law, but even that site recently carried an article called “In Defense of Going to Law School”, in which it kind of offered an apology for their usual hyper... |
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| Law schools paying firms to hire students | A.S. Pradhan |
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By now most law students must have heard about Duke’s “Bridge to Practice” program and SMU’s “Test Drive” program. Duke’s program has gotten more media attention and in both the programs the schools are paying law firms to hire their non-employable unemploye... |
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| Grade Inflation in Law Schools | A.S. Pradhan |
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Grade inflation is not just for high schools and undergraduates anymore. It has reached even law schools. New York Times carried an article last week about how at least ten law schools have done “grade reform” aka grade inflation recently to help their graduates find better jobs (probabl... |
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| Legal Processing Outsourcing | A.S. Pradhan |
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With the economy being what it is, students who have graduated this year are having a tough time getting jobs. Some say it’s because of the glut in lawyers; over 40,000 students got their JDs this year. And then there’s the trend of outsourcing. Yes, even legal work is being outsourced t... |
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| One more law school opens | A.S. Pradhan |
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For students who know that they are not going to get into the top 14 law schools, there’s another law school coming up that should help out students planning on a J.D. The University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth has created a School of Law which is starting classes this fall with 127 stu... |
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| Passing the Bar Exam...Will I or Won't I? | By Brendon Buthello |
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Bar exams are forever in the news! Take for instance, the California bar exam candidates who have individual bar review needs. Those who have come from other states and sitting for the California bar exam face a greater challenge than their peers who are from California themselves. Preparation for ... |
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| Social Media and Lawyers | By Stephanie Judd |
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Social media has certainly created new opportunities for attorneys to flourish as entrepreneurs. According to Greentarget, a communications agency, attorneys are using new media platforms to expand their professional networks and to research information. But social media is still uncharted territory... |
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| Ethnic Studies and Legal Education | By Brendon Buthello |
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Arizona lawmakers have passed a law banning ethnic studies from law schools threatening to slash funding for any school which does not obey the rule. Gosh! That is indeed quite serious!The controversial Arizona bill debars public schools from teaching subjects which support certain ethnic groups, wh... |
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